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At Chewy, it is our mission to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents (and partners) everywhere. The Infrastructure Engineering organization develops services and tools to enable, support, and optimize software development processes and practices for Chewy engineers. In this role, you will develop new customer-facing features, enhance existing systems with automation, and improve observability of business applications that power the e-commerce platform and beyond. Further, you will have the opportunity to collaborate across the engineering organization to deliver self-service solutions which empower internal customers to move rapidly while building on Chewy's enterprise platforms.\nWhat You'll Do:\nApply algorithms, data structures, and design patterns to build scalable and performant code\nArchitect a resilient system for a customer-facing web application from scratch \nPartner with stakeholders and technology teams on how to best implement desired customer features and enhancements\nDrive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development\nCollaborate with Team Members to drive automated solutions to standardize methodologies, workflows, reusable modules, and tooling\nContribute to team's standard processes for logging, testing, instrumentation, metrics, monitors, alerts, practices, and processes\nConduct design and code reviews and raise the bar on engineering rigor and standard \nYou will participate in setting guidelines for evolving development practices, as well as mentoring junior engineers\nActively participate in scrum ceremonies such as grooming, planning, demos and retrospective\nParticipate in on-call rotations, troubleshooting production issues and improving operational excellence\n\nWhat You'll Need:\nBachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or similar; or equivalent experience\n3+ years of strong Java programming experience\n3+ years of strong programming experience with frontend technologies like React, Typescript, NodeJS\nAbility to think independently and break down product requirements into well-defined tasks\nAbility to collaborate with stakeholders to ensure development efforts align with stakeholder needs\nExperience in monitoring production environment, troubleshooting, triaging and addressing production issues\nExperience with CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins or similar tool\nExperience with AWS or similar cloud platforms\nExperience with designing, building and deploying scalable, highly available systems \n\nBonus:\nExperience in e-commerce\nExperience in Python\nExperience with agile methodologies a plus\nExperience with modern tools and environments (e.g. version control systems, bug/issue tracking tools\n\nThe 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.\n\nWe 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.\nExempt 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.\nChewy is an equal opportunity employer. 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