6 days ago
Base Salary
$181k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own incremental modernization of Chewy’s core fulfillment technology through target architecture, production code, reference implementations, and reusable engineering patterns.
- Architect highly available, low-latency systems across cloud and edge environments while partnering with infrastructure and networking teams to maintain warehouse operations.
- Design and build performant, accessible, offline-resilient mobile experiences for warehouse associates.
- Establish resilient workflow frameworks with state management, validation, exception handling, retries, recovery, observability, and consistent execution.
- Design integrations across custom and packaged systems, machine-learning and optimization models, robotics, and warehouse control systems.
- Create auditable patterns for operational events, decisions, workflow transitions, system changes, reconciliation, and traceability.
- Provide technical leadership across teams, resolve ambiguity, lead design and code reviews, and mentor engineers.
- Champion AI-assisted software development tools, specification-driven development, and modern engineering practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is required; a master’s degree is preferred.
- At least 12 years of software engineering experience designing and incrementally modernizing large-scale, business-critical systems.
- Demonstrated experience applying AI-assisted software development tools and workflows to significant engineering initiatives.
- Expert hands-on programming ability in modern languages, with Java or Kotlin preferred and recent production coding experience.
- Deep AWS expertise spanning cloud and edge architecture, compute, networking, security, observability, infrastructure automation, and production operations.
- Deep expertise designing high-throughput, low-latency, event-driven distributed systems using Kafka or comparable streaming technologies.
- Deep understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, key-value stores, caching layers, object storage, partitioning, replication, durability, and recovery patterns.
- Experience architecting reliable modern web and mobile applications; React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Android/Kotlin are preferred.
- Experience designing workflow-driven or stateful operational systems that are flexible, resilient, and observable.
- Experience integrating custom software, packaged platforms, data products, and decisioning models through APIs, events, and data contracts.
- Experience designing auditable systems with access controls, change traceability, event history, reconciliation, and retention.
- Ability to set technical direction, influence across teams, mentor engineers, and champion modern engineering practices.
- Experience in fulfillment, warehousing, supply chain, high-throughput physical operations, warehouse systems, robotics, industrial controls, vendor integrations, mobile or industrial devices, or distributed device fleets is a bonus.
Benefits
- The role offers medical/Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident insurance.
- Benefits include parental leave, family services, backup dependent care, flexible spending accounts, telemedicine, pet adoption reimbursement, an employee assistance program, and discounts including pet insurance and Chewy.com.
- Eligible employees may receive 401(k), new-hire and annual equity grants, and annual bonuses for qualifying C08+ positions.
- Exempt salary team members receive unlimited PTO subject to manager approval, six paid holidays per year, and may be eligible for paid sick and family leave under applicable regulations.
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About Chewy
Chewy is an e-commerce retailer for pet parents, selling food, supplies, medications, and services like Chewy Pharmacy and Autoship subscriptions. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Plantation, Florida, it operates nationwide with 24/7 customer support and rapid delivery from its fulfillment network. Chewy is publicly traded on the NYSE (CHWY) and also supports veterinarians and shelters through health offerings.