Software Engineer III

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Design and operate high-scale, event-driven services that ensure millions of items are in the right place at the right time while mentoring engineers and fostering a strong engineering culture.
Our Opportunity
Chewy’s Inventory Technology group builds the platforms that make real-time inventory visibility, placement, and movement possible across our entire supply‑chain network. As an Engineer III you’ll design and operate high-scale, event‑driven services that keep millions of items in the right place at the right time. You will pair deep technical ownership with leadership in Chewy’s Operating Principles—Debate Openly & Commit Fully, Operate at Depth, and Accelerate Time—while mentoring engineers and shaping our engineering culture.
What You’ll Do
  • Build and develop distributed systems using Java 8+, Spring Boot, and AWS components like Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, S3, and API Gateway.
  • Own features end‑to‑end: from RFC and architecture review through coding, deployment, and post‑launch measurement.
  • Lead on‑call rotations; drive root‑cause analysis, observability improvements, and operational excellence.
  • Coach and improve engineers through design sessions, code reviews, and learning opportunities.
  • Influence product direction by translating ambiguous business problems into resilient, scalable solutions.
  • Advocate for standard methodologies in testing, secure coding, CI/CD, infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform/CloudFormation), and performance tuning.
  • Collaborate multi-functionally with product, data science, fulfillment ops, and partner engineering teams to align roadmaps with business outcomes.
What You’ll Need
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
  • 7+ years of professional software‑engineering experience (or 5+ with a track record of technical leadership on production scale systems).
  • Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and micro‑services running in AWS.
  • Strong grasp of distributed‑system patterns (asynchronous messaging, event sourcing, eventual consistency).
  • Proven ability to deliver from ideation through production support with minimal mentorship.
  • Proficiency with Git, CI/CD pipelines
  • Excellent communication skills and comfort navigating ambiguity while balancing near-term execution with long-term strategy.
Bonus
  • Experience in high-volume e-commerce, logistics, or supply‑chain domains.
  • Exposure to data-intensive architectures and observability stacks (Grafana, Datadog, Splunk).
  • Working knowledge of modern front-end frameworks (React or Vue).
We're building something special. Join us and help shape the future. We'd love to hear from you
 
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Chewy is revolutionizing the pet industry as one of the fastest growing e-commerce retailer of all time. We offer a convenient way to shop for pet supplies within a highly personalized experience that’s fueled by superior customer care. Headquartered in South Florida and Boston, our team of over 17,000 members—dispersed across our customer service centers, corporate offices and fulfillment centers—dedicate themselves to delivering pet happiness nationwide. Whether it’s our easy-to-use website, great selection of high-quality products, competitive pricing, speedy deliveries, or award-winning 24/7 customer service, we aim to wow our customers in all aspects of our company. Chewy’s environment is dynamic and faster than anything you’ve ever experienced, built for leaders who thrive on delivering results. We believe in leadership, accountability, relentlessness, and creativity. We work hard with a dogged determination, but we have fun, too—that’s not hard to do when we have our favorite four-legged friends by our side.

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