About the position
Chewy is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Outbound Simulation and Planning technology team. As a key member of a dynamic engineering team, you will lead the design, build scalable applications and manage large datasets to improve our customers' delivery experience and optimize Chewy's Fulfilment Operations. In this role, you will demonstrate your technical expertise to deliver robust engineering designs and implementations that align with business objectives. You will combine an understanding of software development, simulation, and data transformation. Additionally, you will a technical lead on complex initiatives work as part of a multi-functional team to develop the next-generation distributed simulation and predictive systems, tackling critical challenges within our fulfillment networks. The ideal candidate will understand our business goals, innovate rapidly, and deliver high-quality and high-impact functionality.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and implement highly performant simulation systems with large data volumes.
- Be responsible for delivering projects, designing systems, and mentoring junior engineers.
- Participate in team's roadmap planning and estimation process, ensure project are delivered according to the estimation.
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following standard methodologies in software engineering. Ensure that all code is well-documented and undergoes rigorous peer review.
- Advocate for and implement software engineering standard processes that enable automated testing and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD).
- Leverage and champion operational excellence that enable system observability and alerting. Continuously measure system availability and optimize system performance.
- Collaborate with multi-functional teams, including data scientists, product managers, and operational business collaborators, to deliver effective solutions that meet business objectives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree (Computer Science, Engineering or related field) or equivalent work experience.
- 8+ years of professional software development experience focusing on Python or Java.
- Strong proficiency SQL, working with large datasets and data engineering.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and deliver through others in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to simultaneously support multiple high priority projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Proven ability to analyze business requirements and translate them into code.
- Experience leading the design (data structures, algorithms, performance, reliability, and scalability) and development of new applications.
- Proven experience building distributed, highly available and highly-performant systems.
- Experience designing and implementing scalable RESTful services and APIs.
- Experience with containerization and configuration management.
- Experience building high-quality systems, including unit and integration testing and continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Experience with cloud-native technology stacks such as AWS, Azure, GCP.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills including collaboration with both technical and non-technical customers.
- Strong time management and organizational skills.
- Team-oriented and have a customer first approach.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in supply chain tech and/or e-commerce domain.
