Our Opportunity
Chewy is building a highly AI-focused team within Supply Chain Operations to create products and platforms that help teams work smarter, make better decisions, and automate repetitive work, with the potential to benefit the broader enterprise.
We are seeking a Software Engineer I to help build applications that bring AI into employees' everyday workflows. Our team combines AI, shared knowledge, analytics, workflow automation, and reusable integrations to help employees find information, explore data, and complete tasks while remaining in control.
In this role, you will work alongside experienced engineers to develop user interfaces, backend services, and integrations. You will strengthen your software engineering fundamentals, gain hands-on experience building AI-powered products, and contribute to features used by teams across Chewy.
What You'll Do
- Develop, test, and maintain scoped features across user interfaces, backend services, and APIs with guidance from experienced engineers.
- Help build AI-powered experiences for knowledge discovery, analytics, and workflow automation.
- Integrate AI services and enterprise APIs using established patterns for security, human review, and reliable error handling.
- Embrace a builder's mindset: test ideas by building-make, break, and rebuild in pursuit of meaningful, intelligent systems. Fail fast and iterate continuously, incorporating guidance and feedback from experienced engineers.
- Use AI-assisted development tools for coding, testing, debugging, and documentation while reviewing, understanding, and testing generated outputs.
- Help evaluate AI features using representative tasks, identify inaccurate or unexpected results, and suggest improvements.
- Collaborate with engineers and product partners to understand requirements, communicate progress, and apply feedback from code reviews.
- Help monitor and troubleshoot applications, building familiarity with production systems and reliable software delivery.
What You'll Need
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 1-2 years of software development experience; internships and co-ops count.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Python, Java, or TypeScript, and familiarity with APIs and SQL or NoSQL databases.
- Understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, version control, testing, and debugging.
- Hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools through work, coursework, or personal projects, with examples of how you reviewed, tested, and improved generated code.
- Hands-on experience building AI-powered systems through work, coursework, or personal projects, and the curiosity to find and frame your own problems to solve.
- Awareness of AI limitations, including inaccurate outputs, and the importance of validating results and protecting sensitive information.
- Ability to complete well-defined tasks with guidance, ask clear questions, incorporate feedback, and collaborate with teammates.
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience developing user interfaces with React and TypeScript, or a comparable frontend framework.
- Coursework or projects involving language model APIs, AI-powered applications, or workflow automation.
- Familiarity with prompting, retrieval-augmented generation, tool calling, or evaluating AI-generated responses.
- Exposure to cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, containers, or application monitoring.
- Experience with data processing or analytics, or an interest in supply chain, operations, or enterprise software.
Success in This Role
You deliver well-tested, scoped features with guidance and build increasing independence. You demonstrate an AI-first mindset through hands-on experimentation, thoughtful validation, and practical improvements to your work while strengthening your software engineering fundamentals.
The base salary range for this role is $92,500 - $160,000.00.
- The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidate's relevant experience, education, and work location. In addition, this position is eligible for 401k and a new hire and annual equity grant. C08+ positions may also be eligible for annual bonus.
We offer different types of insurance and benefits, such as medical/Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident. We offer parental leave, family services benefits, backup dependent care, flexible spending accounts, telemedicine, pet adoption reimbursement, employee assistance program, and many discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com.
Exempt salary team members have unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval. Team members will receive six paid holidays per year. Team members may be eligible for paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations.
Chewy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, citizenship, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, veteran status, as well as any other legally-protected characteristic. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact [email protected].
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 1-2 years of software development experience; internships and co-ops count.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Python, Java, or TypeScript, and familiarity with APIs and SQL or NoSQL databases.
- Understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, version control, testing, and debugging.
- Hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools through work, coursework, or personal projects, including reviewing, testing, and improving generated code.
- Hands-on experience building AI-powered systems through work, coursework, or personal projects.
- Awareness of AI limitations, inaccurate outputs, validation requirements, and sensitive-information protection.
- Ability to complete well-defined tasks with guidance, ask clear questions, incorporate feedback, and collaborate with teammates.
- Experience developing user interfaces with React and TypeScript or a comparable frontend framework.
- Coursework or projects involving language model APIs, AI-powered applications, or workflow automation.
- Familiarity with prompting, retrieval-augmented generation, tool calling, or evaluating AI-generated responses.
- Exposure to cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, containers, or application monitoring.
- Experience with data processing or analytics, or interest in supply chain, operations, or enterprise software.
What the Team is Saying
Chewy Compensation & Benefits Highlights
How does Chewy ensure its pay and bonus plans are competitive?
Chewy approaches compensation through a total rewards strategy that combines salary, bonuses, equity opportunities, healthcare benefits, employee discounts, and career growth opportunities. The company emphasizes supporting employees across ecommerce, healthcare, pharmacy, customer service, technology, and fulfillment operations while competing for talent in both retail and tech markets.
Competitive compensation and bonus opportunities: Chewy offers market-based compensation packages that may include salary, performance bonuses, commissions, and equity depending on role and level. Built In also notes benefits such as relocation assistance, employee discounts, and bonus opportunities across multiple teams and functions.
- Healthcare and wellness support: Benefits include medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage, HSA/FSA options, life insurance, disability coverage, telemedicine, mental health resources, and wellbeing programs. Chewy also offers wellness-focused resources designed to support employees physically, mentally, and financially.
- Retirement and financial wellbeing: Employees receive 401(k) plans with company matching along with financial wellness resources and broader support programs. Benefits are designed to support both short-term needs and long-term financial planning.
- Pet-focused and family-oriented benefits: Chewy offers pet insurance discounts, employee discounts on Chewy products, parental leave, fertility support, family-focused benefits, and caregiving resources. The company’s benefits package is closely aligned with its pet-focused identity and customer mission.
- Flexibility and workplace support: Corporate employees may have access to hybrid work arrangements, flexible scheduling, commuter benefits, PTO, paid holidays, and wellbeing initiatives. Employees also cite supportive managers and collaborative teams as important parts of the broader employee value proposition.
- Long-term career investment: Compensation is reinforced through career growth opportunities, mentorship, leadership development, cross-functional learning, and exposure to large-scale ecommerce, automation, healthcare, and logistics initiatives. Employees often describe growth opportunities as an important part of the overall company experience.
- External signals: Comparably reports that 70% of employee reviews are positive overall. Employees frequently highlight healthcare benefits, employee discounts, coworkers, and growth opportunities as strengths of the company experience. (Glassdoor; Comparably)
Chewy Insights
What We Do
Who We Are Chewy is where pet parents find everything they need for life with pets, from food to fun to pharmacy. We make pet care easier, more informed, and more joyful through fast, reliable delivery and award-winning 24/7 Customer Care, including access to pet health support when it’s needed. Founded in 2011, Chewy combines the convenience of online shopping with a high-touch, personalized experience built around the real moments of pet parenthood. Our Mission Chewy’s mission is to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents and partners, everywhere. What We Do We support pet parents through the highs, lows, and everyday moments of the pet parenting journey with: • Pet food, treats, and daily essentials • Supplies for dogs, cats, fish, birds, reptiles, equine, and small pets • Pharmacy and veterinary services, including prescriptions and medications • Pet wellness and health products • Autoship for convenient recurring deliveries • Chewy+, our premium membership offering exclusive savings, faster delivery, and personalized pet care benefits • 24/7/365 customer support from knowledgeable, pet-loving experts What Makes Chewy Different Chewy is known for industry-leading service, deep personalization, and our customer-obsessed culture. We combine trust, convenience, and care, and pet parents come to us for: • Exceptional customer care • Human- and pet-centered product and experience design • Fast, dependable fulfillment across a nationwide operations network • A mission-driven culture built on empathy, trust, and passion for pets Our Culture Chewy’s culture is built for people who thrive on ownership, innovation, and impact. We value curiosity, creativity, and continuous improvement across all our teams. We empower Team Members—our Chewtopians—to learn, grow, and unleash their full potential in a collaborative, supportive, mission-driven environment. How We Work Chewy’s Operating Principles guide how we think, innovate, collaborate, and execute. These principles shape our character, decision-making, and approach to delivering results while connecting our people and culture in support of our mission. • Put Customers First • Act as an Owner • Deliver Results • Earn Trust • Debate Openly; Commit Fully • Operate in the Details • Shape the Future Where We Work Chewy headquarters: Plantation, FL, and Boston, MA Additional hubs: Bellevue, WA, and Minneapolis, MN
Why Work With Us
Why You Should Work at Chewy Chewy is a unique, fast-growing e-commerce and tech leader where builders, creators, and problem-solvers shape the future of pet care. Our teams drive innovation in a mission-driven culture that creates real impact for pets and the people who love them.
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