Software Engineer III

Our Opportunity
Chewy’s Inventory Technology group builds the platforms that make real-time inventory visibility, placement, and movement possible across our entire supply‑chain network. As an Engineer III you’ll build and operate high-scale, event‑driven services that keep millions of items in the right place at the right time. You will pair deep technical ownership with leadership in Chewy’s Operating Principles— Debate Openly & Commit Fully, Operate at Depth, and Accelerate Time —while mentoring engineers and shaping our engineering culture.
What You’ll Do

• Build and develop distributed systems using Java 8+, Spring Boot, and AWS components like Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, S3, and API Gateway.


• Own features end‑to‑end: from RFC and architecture review through coding, deployment, and post‑launch measurement.


• Lead on‑call rotations; drive root‑cause analysis, observability improvements, and operational excellence.


• Coach and improve engineers through design sessions, code reviews, and learning opportunities.


• Influence product direction by translating ambiguous business problems into resilient, scalable solutions.


• Advocate for standard methodologies in testing, secure coding, CI/CD, infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform/CloudFormation), and performance tuning.


• Collaborate multi-functionally with product, data science, fulfillment ops, and partner engineering teams to align roadmaps with business outcomes.

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.


• 7+ years of professional software‑engineering experience (or 5+ with a track record of technical leadership on production scale systems).


• Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and micro‑services running in AWS.


• Strong grasp of distributed‑system patterns (asynchronous messaging, event sourcing, eventual consistency).


• Proven ability to deliver from ideation through production support with minimal mentorship.


• Proficiency with Git, CI/CD pipelines


• Excellent communication skills and comfort navigating ambiguity while balancing near-term execution with long-term strategy.

Bonus

• Experience in high-volume e-commerce, logistics, or supply‑chain domains.


• Exposure to data-intensive architectures and observability stacks (Grafana, Datadog, Splunk).


• Working knowledge of modern front-end frameworks (React or Vue).

We're building something special. Join us and help shape the future. We'd love to hear from you