Description:
Our Opportunity:
At Chewy we are building a team to launch a Sponsored Advertising business and looking for a Software Engineer II. Sponsored Ads enables brands on Chewy to promote products directly to their target customers at the moment they are looking for products and ready to make a purchase. This provides brands with the ability to generate additional sales and customer awareness by showcasing relevant products in premier positions on Chewy. Advertising is a critical component of the ecommerce ecosystem and provides a critical revenue stream to the company.
Come be part of the team to build Sponsored Ads from the ground up at Chewy!
- Serve as a member of a newly formed engineering team building the ads platform.
- Design, develop, and implement large scale distributed systems that process and serve large volumes of data and operate with very low latency.
- Hold a high bar for the quality and design of systems.
- Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development.
- Decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions that operationally scale and are easily maintained.
- Generate and analyze engineering metrics to inform leadership and make data driven decisions.
- Exhibit excellent verbal and written communication and convey dissenting opinions in a constructive manner. Operate in compliance with IT standards, policies, procedures, and best practices
- Ensure that technical solutions follow best practices, are reliable, are easily maintainable and are scalable under sustained load
- Participate in design and code reviews
What You'll Need:
- Bachelors in Computer Science or related field.
- Exceptional leadership and communication skills.
- Strong computer science fundamentals and programing skills.
- Experience developing software in an agile environment with CI/CD.
- Proficiency in system design, contributing to large scale distributed systems.
- Expert level programming skills in Java, Kotlin, or another modern programming language.
- Exposer to front end technologies like React, Vue or similar JS frameworks.
- Proficiency in building solutions on AWS and scaling.
- Position may require occasional travel.