Backend Software Engineer I

Chewy is a pet-focused e-commerce company seeking a Backend Software Engineer I for its Release Engineering team. The role focuses on enhancing systems through automation, improving developer experience and productivity, building observability metrics, and delivering self-service solutions on enterprise platforms. The engineer will contribute across the software development lifecycle, optimize backend services, debug production issues, and participate in design reviews and on-call operations.

What you'll do:

• Contribute to every aspect of the software development lifecycle
• Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development
• Debug production issues across services and technology stack
• Continuously measure and optimize the performance, effectiveness, and uptime of backend services
• Apply algorithms, data structures, and design patterns to build scalable and performant code
• Collaborate with Team Members to drive solutions to standardize methodologies, workflows, reusable modules, and tooling
• Contribute to team’s standard processes for logging, testing, instrumentation, metrics, monitors, alerts, practices, and processes
• Participate in design and code reviews
• Participate in on-call rotations and operational excellence

What they're looking for:

• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
• 1+ years of professional experience in Software Engineering
• Experience in Java, Python, and AWS
• Must be team oriented and have a customer first mindset
• Proficiency in Computer Science fundamentals – object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm - design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Be a hands-on Engineer spending significant percentage of their time writing code or debugging tricky issues
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Knowledge evaluating, measuring, and tuning application performance
• Experience working across fully automated stacks in a CI/CD ecosystem
• Sharp analytical abilities and proven design skills & a working knowledge of design patterns
• Knowledge in Test Driven Development
• Knowledge with cloud & orchestration technologies (AWS Services, Terraform, Ansible, etc.)

Benefits:

• Hybrid: 3 days/week in office
• 401k
• A new hire and annual equity grant
• C08+ positions may also be eligible for annual bonus.
• Medical/Rx insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Hospital indemnity insurance