Software Engineer III
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 28, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 26, 2026. Chewy scores B on the Alion truth index.
Job Description:
Our Opportunity:
Chewy is seeking Senior Software Engineer, Level III in Boston, MA or Minneapolis MN.
Chewy is growing! We’re looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our team developing Chewy.com. Chewy is THE go-to online shopping destination for all things pet and we are continuously striving to delight pet parents with a seamless experience across our platforms.
- Are you a passionate and energetic Software Engineer?
- Are you excited about developing solutions focused on providing delightful customer experience?
- Are you able to easily adapt to meet the needs of our continuous business growth?
- Are you a quality focused engineer with a operational excellence mindset?
If your answer is yes, read on...
We are looking for a Senior Software lead engineer for our core customer platforms. Customer platforms are a critical P0 platform powering Chewy.com & Chewy App experiences. Delivering reliable and high-performance services and features at Chewy’s scale requires engineers with extraordinary expertise and boundless creativity. As a lead engineer in our team you will work with a talented group of backend and frontend engineers, product managers and business leaders in an Agile environment. As part of a dynamic team, this role offers a tremendous opportunity for professional growth in the leading online pet retailer in the United States. Our team @Chewy is focused on building solutions which guide pet lovers in making their best, most informed decisions to purchase products that their pets love, every single day.
What to expect in this Role:
- Design and Architecture on scalable performant event driven /service architectures (#ThinkBig, #ActAsOwner)
- Independently own and lead initiatives end to end. Establish AI first mindset for accelerating delivery from ideation to release (#ActAsAOwner)
- Guide /mentor junior engineers; (#BuildHighPerforming teams)
- Own implementations with focus to drive high scalable, performant bug free delivery. Own operational excellence core metrics to build out effective anomaly detection/ monitoring and self-healing platforms (#DeliverResults)
What You’ll Do:
- Drive & own key initiatives end to end from ideation to delivery , including design implementation, test and release.
- Design & architect enterprise scale platforms and build new features and capabilities to power personalization on chewy.com
- Implement core capabilities - Write scalable, performant, readable and tested code.
- Own solutions for improving the high bar of operational excellence core metrics of SLA, latency, Availability, resiliency.
- Participate in technical decisions and collaborate with talented peers
- Review code, implementations and give meaningful feedback that helps others build better solutions
- Write documentation on design, architecture and solutions
- Provide mentorship and guidance for peers and more junior engineers
- Establish strong working relationships at all organizational levels and across functional teams
- Take responsibility and ownership of project timelines and deliverables
What You’ll Need:
- Strong knowledge and experience developing large scale platforms using tools including but not limited to Java/Kotlin, Spring, RESTful Webservices, Kafka, Federated Graphql, OpenSearch, Graph DB’, Datadog, Jenkins, AWS
- 7+ years of working primarily on the server-side technologies (e.g. Spring Boot, Java/Kotlin, Kafka, Graphql).
- 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and developing scalable, high performing and fault-tolerant applications for large enterprises.
- Experience with event driven architectures & service-oriented architectures
- Experience architecting systems with multiple domain dependencies and cross cutting concerns
- Expertise in measuring, evaluating, and tuning application performance
- Hands on experience working in a public cloud environment.
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
Bonus:
- Experience designing and developing tests within a test automation framework. Experience in Test Driven Development
- Ai Native or Ai first development and tooling to showcase clear delivery velocity acceleration.
- Background in e-commerce. Agentic Commerce engagement.
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 [email protected].
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