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We're looking for a Software Engineer III to help define and scale the frontend foundations that power consistent, accessible, and intuitive experiences for millions of pet parents.\nAs part of the UX Engineering team, you'll work at the intersection of engineering, design, accessibility, developer experience, and platform strategy. You'll help evolve the design system, component architecture, tooling, and engineering standards that enable teams across Chewy to build high-quality customer experiences faster and more consistently.\nWe're looking for engineers who think beyond individual features and screens-engineers who enjoy solving ambiguous technical problems, influencing engineering direction, and building systems that scale across teams and domains.\nYou'll partner closely with Product Design, Accessibility, Front-End Platform, and application engineering teams to shape the future of frontend development at Chewy.\nWhat You'll Do\nBuild and evolve reusable UI components, patterns, and design system foundations using React, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and modern JavaScript.\nDesign scalable, accessible, and business-logic-agnostic component APIs that can be adopted across multiple teams, applications, and domains.\nLead technical design discussions and influence architecture decisions related to component systems, theming, accessibility, performance, and developer experience.\nPartner closely with Product Design, Accessibility, and Front-End Platform teams to translate design systems into scalable engineering solutions.\nDrive design system adoption through documentation, tooling, migration guidance, and developer enablement.\nImprove shared frontend infrastructure, including Storybook, testing, accessibility validation, design token pipelines, and developer workflows.\nApply AI-assisted engineering practices to improve productivity, documentation quality, accessibility review, migration support, and developer experience.\nMentor engineers through code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions, and technical coaching while helping raise frontend engineering standards across teams.\nIdentify and solve ambiguous technical challenges, balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term platform scalability and maintainability.\nWhat You'll Need\n5+ years of experience building modern frontend applications, frontend platforms, shared UI libraries, or design systems.\nStrong expertise in React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, including modern component architecture patterns and browser behavior.\nDemonstrated experience building, maintaining, or scaling reusable component libraries or design systems used by multiple teams.\nStrong understanding of component API design, composition patterns, hooks, controlled and uncontrolled APIs, accessibility patterns, and developer ergonomics.\nExperience leading technical initiatives and influencing engineering decisions across teams.\nHands-on experience with Storybook or similar tools for component development, documentation, testing, and collaboration.\nDeep understanding of web accessibility, including WCAG, semantic HTML, ARIA, keyboard navigation, focus management, screen readers, and accessibility testing.\nExperience working with design tokens, theming systems, and scalable frontend architecture patterns.\nAbility to independently define, decompose, and solve ambiguous technical problems.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to document technical decisions, tradeoffs, and engineering standards.\nExperience mentoring engineers and helping improve engineering practices across teams.\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.\nBonus\nExperience building or scaling enterprise design systems supporting multiple products and engineering organizations.\nExperience with Style Dictionary, design token governance, token pipelines, and design token automation.\nExperience implementing multi-brand, multi-theme, or multi-platform frontend architectures.\nExperience with modern Storybook capabilities including interaction testing, accessibility testing, visual testing, composition, and CI workflows.\nExperience with Next.js, React Server Components, Server Actions, streaming, and modern frontend platform capabilities.\nExperience with monorepos, package publishing, build tooling, dependency management, codemods, linting rules, or automated migration tooling.\nExperience leveraging AI-assisted development tools to improve developer experience, documentation, migration workflows, accessibility review, or platform adoption.\nExperience defining frontend standards, governance models, or platform strategy.\nBackground in e-commerce, high-scale consumer applications, Agile environments, or cloud infrastructure supporting frontend platforms and developer tooling.\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. 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 .\nTo access Chewy's California CPRA Job Applicant Privacy Policy, please click here.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6523,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan","Equity","Parental leave","Unlimited PTO"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["E-commerce Platforms","Pet Food, Supplies & Care"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-21T15:36:29Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 184 · green card filings: 110","filings_12m":184,"filings_prev_12m":257,"green_card_filings_12m":110,"median_offered_wage_usd":149813,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":88}],"liveness":{"score":15,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.538,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":66,"expected_fill_days":19,"reasons":["conf:21","velocity","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-26T05:57:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/chewy-software-engineer-iii-ux-engineer-design-system","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/chewy-software-engineer-iii-ux-engineer-design-system.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-26T08:52:38Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":11810,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-27T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":709617},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=709617"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fchewy-software-engineer-iii-ux-engineer-design-system"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fchewy-software-engineer-iii-ux-engineer-design-system"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fchewy-software-engineer-iii-ux-engineer-design-system"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/chewy-software-engineer-iii-ux-engineer-design-system\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fchewy-software-engineer-iii-ux-engineer-design-system"}]}