Chewy
At Chewy, our mission is to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents and partners, everywhere.
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Staff Software Engineer - Front End

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Our Opportunity:

Chewy is seeking a talented and motivated Staff Software Engineer to join our team in Boston, MA. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will serve as a technical lead to build scalable web applications and frameworks that will power new product features across Chewy.com and mobile. This is an opportunity to be one of the founding engineers of a new team challenged with delivering a greenfield project that will wow our customers and deliver on our mission to be the most trusted and convenient online destination for pet parents (and partners), everywhere.

What You’ll Do:

  • Serve as a technical lead on business critical, cross-functional web and mobile projects.
  • Design, develop, and implement multiple single page applications (SPAs) and reusable UI components that are responsive.
  • Hold a high bar for the quality of the full customer facing experience and application architecture.
  • Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development.
  • Decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
  • Instill engineering excellence in the team and have the drive to focus on scalability, resiliency, high availability and performance of applications.
  • Actively mentor engineers, build and foster a strong engineering team culture, and be a key contributor in raising the bar of the engineering org.
  • Generate and analyze application and customer experience metrics to inform leadership and make data driven decisions.
  • Exhibit excellent verbal and written communication and convey dissenting opinions in a constructive manner.
  • Contribute intellectual property through patents.

What You’ll Need:

  • Bachelors in Computer Science, related field, or relevant industry experience.
  • 8+ years of industry experience.
  • Exceptional leadership and communication skills.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals (OOP/inheritance/composition, data structures, and algorithms)
  • Proficiency in Javascript/Typescript and modern web frameworks (React, Next.js, Vue, Angular).
  • Proficiency in modern web standards, accessibility, internationalization, web security, and privacy.
  • Experience developing software in an agile environment with CI/CD.
  • Expert understanding how to build UI components and frameworks that are reusable across multiple applications.
  • Position may require occasional travel.

Bonus:

  • Masters or PhD in Computer Science or related field.
  • Experience taking a project from inception through launch. Includes influencing the vision, communicating with leadership, stakeholders, and technical teams to disambiguate requirements, describe software product features, and produce technical design documents.
  • Experience partnering with UX design to build the best customer experience across web and mobile.
  • Experience with cross-platform mobile application development (native platform development, React Native, Flutter).



Chewy is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members.
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What are Chewy Perks + Benefits

Chewy Benefits Overview

We offer competitive salaries and 401k, unlimited time off, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, in addition to wellness programs, online communities, and resources for improved physical and mental health... enabling you to be your best self - in and outside of work. With mentorship programs, employee resource groups, cross-functional job trainings, events, and customized development tracks for advancement, we're proud to help develop and promote our team members from within.

True to our business, we're pet-friendly and have fun pet-related perks like Paw-ternity leave for new pup parents and Chewy employee discounts. We offer countless volunteer opportunities, recreational club teams, company outings, happy hours, and team events to enable you to bond with fellow Chewtopians and have some fun!

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Pair programming
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
We're currently 100% remote due to caution and care for the health & well-being of our team. Post-pandemic, we plan to operate in a combination of onsite and remote, with logistics still being defined
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Highly diverse management team
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
We offer a commuter transit, parking, and dependent care FSA.
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Company equity
Performance bonus
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Childcare benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Pet friendly
Recreational clubs
Chewy sponsors office sports leagues year-round.
Relocation assistance
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Cross-functional lunch and learns.
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks

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