Staff Software Engineer

Description:

Chewy’s Pet Health team is on a mission to build innovative solutions for our customers and partner veterinarians. At Chewy, we build data driven solutions to bring veterinarians and pet parents together on a single platform. For veterinarians, we bring best-in-class practice management software, Rhapsody. Rhapsody has industry leading veterinary vocabulary, mobile workflow, and scalability for corporate groups of all sizes, as well as best in class analytics solutions to unlock full potential of the practice. For pet parents, we bring a best-in-class mobile app, Boop. Boop is a membership-based experience to deeply engage with their veterinarians. Through Boop, pet parents have seamless access to book appointments, manage pets' medical records, sign-up for Chewy’s wellness/insurance programs, and ultimately build a rich, long-term sustainable relationship with their veterinarians. Chewy’s Pet Health is industry first by combining pet parents and veterinarians onto a single platform, serving the entire industry with best-in-class software. Join our growing team and help us transform the pet industry!

Your role

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Pet Health engineering team, you will lead engineering in the design and build of robust, resilient products and services on a scalable platform. Your goal will be to architect and build production-ready code and champion CI/CD processes to ensure speed and quality. You will be providing technical guidance and coaching to teams of high caliber engineers. Your work will directly impact tens of millions of customers who care for their furry family members every day! You will be a part of an amazing, fast-growing team, working on flagship products (Rhapsody, Boop and Analytics) of the company. As a technical component owner, you will be collaborating with product and business owners, defining architecture based on product requirements, breaking the feature to small work items and leading end to end feature development. As a full stack developer, you will have the ability to experience working with UI, microservice based backend, data processing and machine learning, all while solving complex business problems

Responsibilities

• Play a hands-on lead engineer to design, build, deploy and scale a complete platform.
• Lead multiple engineering teams of 10-20 engineers.
• Define and communicate clear design patterns and coding standards.
• Guide and mentor engineers to deliver the best quality code.
• Build a culture of innovation through rapid prototyping and continuous delivery to Production.
• Instill engineering excellence in the team and have the drive to focus on scalability, resiliency, high availability and performance of applications.

Qualifications

• Experience leading the design, build, deployment, and scaling of a complete platform
• Solid understanding of algorithms and data structures.
• Proven ability to define and communicate clear design patterns and coding standards.
• Proven experience working with Spring/Spring Boot/Spring Data ecosystem.
• Proven Experience in frontend web technologies and frameworks such as React, Angular and TypeScript.
• Proven experience working with modern SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Strong fundamentals on building and scaling cloud-based solutions
• Ability to lead multiple engineering teams of up to 20 engineers
• Bachelor's degree (Computer Science or similar technical field of study preferred), or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Working with GCP/AWS
• Experience working with Kubernetes
• Experience working with Node.js
• Experience working with data processing pipelines
• Experience developing software for the medical industry
• Working with distributed teams in different time zones