Chewy

Software Engineer I

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3 days ago
Boston, MA, USA or Bellevue, WA, USAEntry Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$93k - $160k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop, test, and maintain scoped features across user interfaces, backend services, and APIs with guidance from experienced engineers.
  • Build AI-powered experiences for knowledge discovery, analytics, and workflow automation.
  • Integrate AI services and enterprise APIs using established security, human-review, and error-handling patterns.
  • Use AI-assisted development tools for coding, testing, debugging, and documentation while reviewing generated outputs.
  • Evaluate AI features with representative tasks, identify inaccurate or unexpected results, and suggest improvements.
  • Collaborate with engineers and product partners on requirements, progress updates, code reviews, and feedback.
  • Monitor and troubleshoot applications while developing familiarity with production systems and reliable software delivery.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 1–2 years of software development experience, with internships and co-ops counting toward the requirement.
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Java, or TypeScript, plus familiarity with APIs and SQL or NoSQL databases.
  • Understanding of data structures, algorithms, version control, testing, and debugging.
  • Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools and reviewing, testing, and improving generated code.
  • Hands-on experience building AI-powered systems through work, coursework, or personal projects.
  • Awareness of AI limitations, output validation, and protection of sensitive information.
  • Ability to complete well-defined tasks with guidance, ask clear questions, incorporate feedback, and collaborate with teammates.
  • Preferred experience includes React and TypeScript or a comparable frontend framework, language model APIs, AI-powered applications, workflow automation, prompting, retrieval-augmented generation, tool calling, AI-response evaluation, cloud platforms, containers, application monitoring, data processing, or analytics.

Benefits

  • Base salary range is $92,500–$160,000.
  • Eligible positions may receive 401(k), new-hire and annual equity grants, and annual bonuses for eligible C08+ positions.
  • Benefits include medical/Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, accident coverage, parental leave, family services, backup dependent care, flexible spending accounts, telemedicine, pet adoption reimbursement, employee assistance, and discounts.
  • Exempt salary team members receive unlimited PTO subject to manager approval and six paid holidays per year.
  • Team members may be eligible for paid sick and family leave under applicable state and local regulations.
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About Chewy

10,000+ employees

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.

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