Our Opportunity

Chewy is seeking a Staff Software Engineer our fast-paced, customer-first Sponsored Ads team. This role is instrumental in launching innovative, customer-facing products crafted to delight and engage Chewy's advertising partners, while scaling our advertising technology and strengthening brand partnerships. As a senior member of the team, you'll help craft, build, and deliver intuitive, performant, and scalable Display ads experiences that power ad creation, campaign management, creative tools, and performance reporting across Chewy's digital ecosystem. Sponsored Ads at Chewy builds a state of art ads platform — offering pet parents relevant product options and deals while enabling brand partners to improve transparency and reach through targeted placements. Advertising is a fast-growing, strategically important component of Chewy's e-commerce platform and a key driver of incremental revenue. In this role, you'll demonstrate your deep expertise in Ads serving technologies, large scale engineering systerms to lead the development of engaging web experiences for both advertisers and pet-parents as Chewy shoppers. As an early member of the team, you'll be part of shaping the technical strategy, owning core areas of the system architecture, and influencing the user experience across Chewy's retail media platform and advertiser portal. You will also help lead the team through ambiguous technical decisions and play a critical role in establishing front-end engineering processes. This position presents a chance to drive a new initiative at Chewy ads platform, growing business value in a rapidly expanding sector of the company.

What You'll Do

• Participate in working with all of the top engineers at Chewy and other partner technology teams to evolve architecture direction of all development at Chewy
• Have responsibility over major components of Chewy's architecture – both development and operational needs
• Be the go-to engineer for your part of the platform
• Be responsible for ensuring your systems are fully CICD and have responsibility of a plan to get to CICD if not there yet
• Limit technical debt as your key objective
• Hiring, training, mentoring and growing new talent as a major part of your job as Chewy is growing all teams at a record pace
• Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development
• Conduct design and code reviews and improve on engineering rigor and standard
• Debug production issues across services and tech stack
• Continuously measure and optimize the performance, effectiveness, and uptime of backend services
• Participate in setting guidelines for evolving development practices, as well as mentoring junior engineers

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's Degree (MIS or CS preferred) or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of experience in an object-oriented language such as Java and relevant Java ecosystem like Spring Boot based applications
• Prior experience in Display ads engineering systems will be a huge plus
• Be a Hands-on Staff technical engineering lead who can work with technical stakeholders, product managers, data scientists and help evolve the technical roadmap of this new display ads-initiatives
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development process including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Proficiency in Computer Science fundamentals – object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Experience with designing, building and deploying scalable, highly available systems
• Experience with cloud & orchestration technologies (AWS Services, Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
• Have or (more importantly) be willing to learn deep domain knowledge in the area of retail e-commerce
• Position may require travel

Bonus

• Experience in e-commerce, display ads engineering systems
• Experience with Scrum, XP or other agile methodologies a plus
• Good communication skills with both technical and business audiences
• Experience with data analysis/mining in large scale database environments a plus

Compensation and Benefits

Base Salary Range: $166,000 - $265,500

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.

Insurance and Benefits:

• Medical/Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident
• Parental leave
• Family services benefits
• Backup dependent care
• Flexible spending accounts
• Telemedicine
• Pet adoption reimbursement
• Employee assistance program
• 10% off pet insurance
• 20% off at Chewy.com
• Unlimited PTO for exempt salary team members, subject to manager approval
• Six paid holidays per year
• Paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations

Equal Opportunity and Accommodations

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, or you require a religious accommodation, and you wish to discuss potential accommodations related to applying for employment at our company, please contact HR@Chewy.com. If you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, please contact CAAR@chewy.com.

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About Chewy

Here at Chewy, our mission is to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents and partners, everywhere. Rooted in our mission to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents and partners, everywhere, we're guided by our Chewy Operating Principles (or OPs for short), which serve as a common framework that drives our character, capabilities, ingenuity and operations.

Our 10 Operating Principles:

• Customers First
• Deliver Results
• Earn Trust
• Accelerate Time
• Act as an Owner
• Debate Openly; Commit Fully
• Build High-Performing Teams
• Keep it Simple
• Think Big