{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"be19f923dff902f611d0f7f2","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/be19f923dff902f611d0f7f2","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/be19f923dff902f611d0f7f2","title":"Fullstack Software Engineer II","description":"Job Description:\nOur Opportunity\nChewy is seeking a Backend Software Engineer III in Boston, MA to help build and scale the platform-driven ecosystem powering Chewy Vet Care across clinics, digital experiences, and pharmacy. You will design and develop highly available backend services, APIs, and event-driven systems that support critical capabilities such as scheduling, prescriptions, medical records, payments, and more.\n\nIn this role, you will partner closely with Product, Data, Clinical, and Engineering teams to solve complex technical problems and support both organic growth and integrations resulting from acquisitions. You will also contribute to the evolution of CVC toward a unified, platform-first architecture while helping establish strong engineering practices across the team.\nAbout You\nYou are a hands-on backend engineer who enjoys solving complex problems within scalable, distributed environments. You approach system design thoughtfully, balancing immediate business needs with long-term reliability, maintainability, and performance. You work effectively through ambiguity, collaborate across technical and nontechnical teams, and provide technical leadership through design discussions, code reviews, and mentorship.\nYou have experience working with loosely coupled services, real-time event processing, vendor integrations, event-driven architecture, and modern CI/CD practices. You also understand how AI-assisted development tools, such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude, can improve engineering productivity while recognizing where careful review and human judgment remain essential.\nWhat You'll Do:\nDesign, build, test, and maintain scalable distributed systems using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS services such as Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, S3, and API Gateway.\nOwn features throughout the software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering and architecture review through implementation, deployment, and post-launch measurement.\nTranslate ambiguous business and clinical needs into reliable, maintainable, and scalable technical solutions.\nCollaborate with Product, Data, Clinical, and Engineering partners to deliver capabilities across clinic, customer, and pharmacy experiences.\nContribute to platform-first architecture and API-driven integrations across Chewy Vet Care and third-party systems.\nImprove system reliability by strengthening observability, troubleshooting production issues, conducting root-cause analyses, and addressing recurring operational risks.\nAdvance engineering practices in automated testing, secure coding, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and performance optimization.\nProvide technical guidance through design sessions, code reviews, documentation, and mentorship.\nParticipate in an on-call rotation and support the operational health of production services.\nWhat You'll Need:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, a related field, or equivalent professional experience.\n7+ years of experience developing scalable, distributed applications using Java, JavaScript, AWS, Spring Boot, or comparable technologies.\nHands-on experience designing, building, deploying, and operating scalable, highly available systems.\nExperience troubleshooting distributed applications using technologies such as SNS, Kafka, Dynatrace, or Amazon CloudWatch.\nStrong knowledge of software engineering practices across the full development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, deployment, and production operations.\nProficiency in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, problem-solving, and complexity analysis.\nAbility to participate in an on-call rotation and respond effectively to production issues.\nBonus:\nExperience in e-commerce.\nFamiliarity with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or XP.\nExperience with configuration and deployment tools such as Terraform, along with knowledge of infrastructure, debugging, networking, compute, storage, and virtualization.\nExperience with React and Typescript\n\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.\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. 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You will design and develop highly available backend services, APIs, and event-driven systems that support critical capabilities such as scheduling, prescriptions, medical records, payments, and more.\n\nIn this role, you will partner closely with Product, Data, Clinical, and Engineering teams to solve complex technical problems and support both organic growth and integrations resulting from acquisitions. You will also contribute to the evolution of CVC toward a unified, platform-first architecture while helping establish strong engineering practices across the team.\nAbout You\nYou are a hands-on backend engineer who enjoys solving complex problems within scalable, distributed environments. You approach system design thoughtfully, balancing immediate business needs with long-term reliability, maintainability, and performance. 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