Our Opportunity:
The Payments Engineering team at Chewy is seeking a dedicated and motivated Lead Front End Software Engineer in Boston, MA. Our mission is to provide pet parents and partners with the most trusted, accessible, and convenient payment experience by building a secure and efficient payment ecosystem that is easily maintainable and highly resilient. We are driven by a flexible architecture, and aim to swiftly adapt to evolving business scenarios, changes in the payment landscape, and regulatory requirements. Joining our organization would provide you the opportunity to collaborate with other highly skilled engineering teams, mentor engineers, and work multi-functionally within a variety of critical business areas. This role offers a tremendous opportunity for professional growth within a dynamic team, while helping to build and refine the brand of the leading online pet retailer in the United States. Join us in building a better Payments experience for all of Chewy!
Your Role:
As a Front End Software Engineer within our Payments development team, your time will be spent be architecting and building scalable user experiences with a hard-working group of full-stack engineers, product managers, and business leaders. You will own building new features that will directly and impact millions of customers and their furry partners every day within a fully Agile environment. Software Engineers within our Payments organization play a hands-on role in driving innovation, scalability and maintainability, and resolving critical development issues. Above all, you will act as a leader and a mentor who gains the trust and confidence of those around them, from peer engineers to technology executives.
What You’ll Do:
- Design, develop and implement large scale distributed systems with large volumes of data focusing on scalability, latency and fault tolerance.
- Architect, build, deploy and scale front end Payments Single Page Applications
- Communicate project status, risks, and solutions to team and customers, and act as technical point of contact to collaborators, taking responsibility and ownership of project timelines and work
- Build Systems / Component architectures and APIs for a rapidly scaling platform, while ensuring successful product delivery and operational quality.
- Pursue engineering quality, leading platform level initiatives such as Kubernetes migration, building true CI/CD pipelines and building our applications into a true Payments as a Service implementation
- Own and operationalize the critical metrics for Payments, building industry leading telemetry/logging to resolve state and health for the applications you own
- Lead research and initiatives for cloud native designs and implementation within public clouds, primarily AWS.
- Build enterprise architecture and influence coding standards (scalable, performant, readable, and tested code) and ensure your code reviews set the bar for the rest of the team
- Display excellent verbal and written communication and be able to convey dissenting opinions in a constructive manner, particularly written communications
- Offer mentorship and guidance for peers and more junior engineers
- Establish strong working relationships at all organizational levels and across functional teams
What You’ll Need:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of professional front-end development experience
- 7+ years of hands-on experience crafting and developing scalable, high-performing, and fault-tolerant applications for large enterprises
- 5+ years of experience building large-scale products using frontend technologies using React/JavaScript/ES6/Typescript/CSS
- 3+ years of software engineering experience with Java or other Object-Oriented Programming languages
- 3+ years of experience in the Payments domain, with a good understanding of payment processing, wallet management and integrating with 3rd party payment processors.
- Hands-on experience building micro-services, micro-frontend, SOA, and working in a public cloud environment (AWS)
- Expertise in measuring, evaluating, and tuning application performance
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & standard methodologies for the SDLC, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- The position may require travel
Preferred:
- Experience in e-commerce or Healthcare
- Experience with accessibility testing
- Experience in ReactJS, VueJS, or AngularJS
- Experience with Selenium, Cypress, or similar automated testing tools
- Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms
- Experience developing CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins or similar tools
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We view pets and pet parents as family and are obsessed with meeting their needs and exceeding customer expectations through every interaction. Behind the scenes, our talented teams are made up of innovators, delighters, big-thinkers and of course, passionate pet people—creating a place where you'll be empowered to build, grow and unleash your fullest potential.
We don’t just stand by our company mission—we’re obsessed with it. We seek to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents and partners, everywhere. And we’re constantly finding new ways to do just that.
At Chewy, we understand pet parenthood is full of joyful highs and anxious lows. That’s why we’re here, standing alongside pet parents, providing everything their pets need for a happy, healthy life. We’re a leading online source for pet products, supplies, and prescriptions. We offer a broad selection of high-quality products and services at competitive prices with an exceptional level of customer care and a personal touch.
Since launching in 2011, we’ve combined the personalized service of your neighborhood pet store with the convenience and speed of e-commerce. We pride ourselves on being the only brand available 24/7/365 to support pet parents throughout their journey.
We have a rich history of being recognized for our deep care and personalization while going above and beyond for our customers and their pets.
We view pets and their people as more than just customers and look forward to meeting their needs and exceeding expectations through every interaction. With Chewy, no one pet-parents alone.
Our culture is for those who thrive on delivering results and becoming your best—no matter your role or location. At Chewy, our Operating Principles serve as a common language, or framework, that connects two of Chewy's most valuable elements—our people and our culture. The Operating Principles guide our character, capabilities, imagination, and methods for execution in support of our company's mission.
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We're proud to be one of the fastest growing e-commerce companies of all time.
With growth comes the exciting opportunity to be a part of a world-class organization of engineering, product, and design team members, responsible for driving our latest innovations and designing "out-of-the Chewy box" experiences.
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