
Software Engineer I

Software Engineer I
Chewy, Inc.
Chewy is looking for a Software Engineer I to join their Release Engineering team in Boston, MA. The role focuses on enhancing systems with automation, improving developer experience, and building observability metrics for their e-commerce platform. The candidate will work in a collaborative environment, contributing to the software development lifecycle and driving innovation through prototyping and iterative development.
Qualification
- BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
- 1+ years of professional experience in Software Engineering
- Experience in React, Typescript, NodeJS
- Must be team oriented and have a customer first mindset
- Proficiency in Computer Science fundamentals – object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm - design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
- Be a hands-on Engineer spending significant percentage of their time writing code or debugging tricky issues
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Responsibility
- Contribute to every aspect of the software development lifecycle
- Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development
- Debug production issues across services and technology stack
- Continuously measure and optimize the performance, effectiveness, and uptime of backend services
- Apply algorithms, data structures, and design patterns to build scalable and performant code
- Collaborate with Team Members to drive solutions to standardize methodologies, workflows, reusable modules, and tooling
- Contribute to team’s standard processes for logging, testing, instrumentation, metrics, monitors, alerts, practices, and processes
- Participate in design and code reviews
- Participate in on-call rotations and operational excellence



