Staff Software Engineer - Vet Care at Chewy

Job Description:

Our Opportunity

Chewy is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Practice Hub engineering team, part of the Vet Clinics organization. The Practice Hub tech team is focused on building scalable, reliable, and intuitive prescription and marketplace platform with supporting APIs - for clinics to manage prescriptions approval and writing, order prescription items for their clinic from multiple vendors, and improve outcomes through data‑driven insights and modern engineering practices. We empower veterinarians, technicians, and pet parents through innovative technology, intelligent automation, and seamless digital workflows.

As a Staff Engineer, you will drive the architecture, design, and implementation of a suite of software services that support diverse operational workflows and deliver a fulfillment experience that delights our customers. This senior technical leadership role offers broad exposure across Chewy's health products and services, providing the opportunity to define the long-term engineering vision and practices that will scale and grow the Vet Care business.

About You

You excel at leading large engineering teams and guiding backend-focused architecture and design. Our systems leverage loosely coupled components, real-time event processing, AWS workflows, a federated GraphQL API for unified data access, and an aggregated data pipeline that ingests signals from predictive ML models and recommendation engines. You will work with technologies such as Java, JavaScript, Node.js, GraphQL, DynamoDB, SNS/SQS, AWS ECS/Fargate, Kubernetes, Kafka, and AWS Lambda to build and scale the platform. In this role, you will lead the creation and deployment of new prototypes, applications, systems, and services that support the standardization, optimization, automation, and process infrastructure of the Chewy Vet Care business and operations.

What You’ll Do:

• Serve as the technical leader for your team, driving project delivery, system design, and mentoring engineers across scrum teams.

• Design, develop, and implement solutions using a broad set of technologies, with a strong emphasis on scalability, low latency, and resiliency.

• Conduct code and implementation reviews, providing clear, constructive feedback that enables engineers to build higher-quality services.

• Apply DevOps principles and best practices to deliver high-quality software with minimal technical debt.

• Build and maintain strong working relationships across all organizational levels and cross-functional teams.

• Own major components of the Chewy Vet Care platform, spanning responsibilities across both development and operational domains.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, related field, or equivalent experience.

• 15+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer and/or team lead.

• 10+ years of experience building modern JavaScript applications and frameworks (React, Vue, Angular).

• 15+ years of experience developing scalable, distributed microservice applications using Java, JavaScript, and/or Spring Boot.

• Hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying scalable, highly available systems.

• Ability to function as a hands-on engineer—comfortable writing complex code and debugging challenging issues.

• Strong understanding of professional software engineering practices across the full development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.

• Proficiency in core computer science fundamentals: object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, problem-solving, and complexity analysis.

Bonus:

• Experience in e-commerce.

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or XP.

• Experience with configuration and deployment tools such as Terraform or Ansible, along with knowledge of infrastructure, networking, compute, storage, and virtualization.

• Experience in data analysis or data mining within large-scale database environments.

• Experience with TypeScript and GraphQL.

• Familiarity with test-driven development and testing frameworks such as Jest and Cypress.

• Working knowledge of AWS services and cloud architecture.

The base salary range for this role is $166,000 - $265,000.00.

• The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidate’s relevant experience, education, and work location. In addition, this position is eligible for 401k and a new hire and annual equity grant. C08+ positions may also be eligible for annual bonus.

We offer different types of insurance and benefits, such as medical/Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident. We offer parental leave, family services benefits, backup dependent care, flexible spending accounts, telemedicine, pet adoption reimbursement, employee assistance program, and many discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com.

Exempt salary team members have unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval. Team members will receive six paid holidays per year. Team members may be eligible for paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations.

Chewy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, citizenship, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, veteran status, as well as any other legally-protected characteristic. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact CAAR@chewy.com.

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