Software Engineer I - Chewy

Our Opportunity:

We are looking for a Software Engineer I at our facility in Boston, MA, to design, develop and implement large scale distributed systems with large volumes of data focusing on scalability, latency and fault tolerance.

What You'll Do: 

• Develop Systems / Component architectures and APIs for a growing platform.
• Ensure successful product delivery and operational excellence.
• Forecast and mitigate challenges effectively.
• Lead research and PoC initiatives for cloud native designs and implementation within public clouds, primarily AWS.
• Conduct design/code reviews while raising the bar for all of engineering.
• Debug critical hard to solve production issues across services and tech stack.
• Continuously measure and optimize the performance, effectiveness, and uptime of services.
• Build quality software with technical guidance to team.
• Local telecommuting permitted.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field and 3 years of software engineering experience with Spring/Spring Boot Java Framework.
• Must have 2 years of experience in the following: Developing in a micro-service oriented environment; and
• Working within the Agile project management framework.
• Must have 1 year of experience in the following: API development or engineering at scale;
• Working with distributing SCM (GitHub a plus), DevOps, AWS or equivalent;
• Working across fully automated stacks in a CI/CD ecosystem;
• Lightweight middleware technologies, integration patterns, microservices;
• Working with Jenkins CI/CD pipelines;
• Building applications using AWS services or equivalent; and
• Building event Streams with No-SQL.
• Local telecommuting permitted
• The position is eligible for the Employee Referral Program.