Job Description
Our Opportunity:
Chewy is seeking a Staff Software Engineer our fast-paced customer-first Sponsored Ads team. This role is instrumental in launching innovative customer-facing products crafted to delight and engage Chewy's advertising partners while scaling our advertising technology and strengthening brand partnerships. As a senior member of the team you'll help craft build and deliver intuitive performant and scalable Display ads experiences that power ad creation campaign management creative tools and performance reporting across Chewy's digital ecosystem.
Sponsored Ads at Chewy builds a state of art ads platform - offering pet parents relevant product options and deals while enabling brand partners to improve transparency and reach through targeted placements. Advertising is a fast-growing strategically important component of Chewy's e-commerce platform and a key driver of incremental revenue.
In this role you'll demonstrate your deep expertise in Ads serving technologies large scale engineering systerms to lead the development of engaging web experiences for both advertisers and pet-parents as Chewy shoppers. As an early member of the team you'll be part of shaping the technical strategy owning core areas of the system architecture and influencing the user experience across Chewy's retail media platform and advertiser portal. You will also help lead the team through ambiguous technical decisions and play a critical role in establishing front-end engineering processes.
This position presents a chance to drive a new initiative at Chewy ads platform growing business value in a rapidly expanding sector of the company.
What You'll Do:
- You will participate in working with all of the top engineers at Chewy and other partner technology teams to evolve architecture direction of all development at Chewy.
- You will have responsibility over major components of Chewy's architecture - both development and operational needs. You will be the go-to engineer for your part of the platform
- You will be responsible for ensuring your systems are fully CICD and have responsibility of a plan to get to CICD if not there yet
- Limiting technical debt will be your key objective
- Hiring training mentoring and growing new talent will be a major part of your job as Chewy is growing all teams at a record pace
- Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development.
- Conduct design and code reviews and improve on engineering rigor and standard
- Debug production issues across services and tech stack
- Continuously measure and optimize the performance effectiveness and uptime of backend services
- You will participate in setting guidelines for evolving development practices as well as mentoring junior engineers
What You'll Need:
- Bachelor's Degree (MIS or CS preferred) or equivalent work experience
- 10+ years of experience in an object-oriented language such as Java and relevant Java ecosystem like Spring Boot based applications
- Prior experience in Display ads engineering systems will be a huge plus.
- Be a Hands-on Staff technical engineering lead who can work with technical stakeholders product managers data scientists and help evolve the technical roadmap of this new display ads-initiatives.
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development process including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations
- Proficiency in Computer Science fundamentals - object-oriented design data structures algorithm - design problem solving and complexity analysis
- Experience with designing building and deploying scalable highly available systems
- Experience with cloud & orchestration technologies (AWS Services Terraform Ansible etc.)
- Have or (more importantly) be willing to learn deep domain knowledge in the area of retail e-commerce
- Position may require travel
Bonus:
- Experience in e-commerce display ads engineering systems.
- Experience with Scrum XP or other agile methodologies a plus
- Good communication skills with both technical and business audiences
- Experience with data analysis/mining in large scale database environments a plus
If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law or you require a religious accommodation and you wish to discuss potential accommodations related to applying for employment at our company please contact [email protected].
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The base salary range for this role is $166000 - $265000.00.
- The 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.
We 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.
Exempt 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.
Chewy 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 [email protected].
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in MIS or CS or equivalent work experience
- 10+ years of experience in an object-oriented language such as Java
- Prior experience in Display ads engineering systems
- Experience with cloud & orchestration technologies
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices
- Experience designing building and deploying scalable systems
- Proficiency in Computer Science fundamentals
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What We Do
Who We AreChewy is where pet parents find everything they need for life with pets from food to fun to pharmacy. We make pet care easier more informed and more joyful through fast reliable delivery and award-winning 24/7 Customer Care including access to pet health support when it’s needed. Founded in 2011 Chewy combines the convenience of online shopping with a high-touch personalized experience built around the real moments of pet parenthood.Our MissionChewy’s mission is to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents and partners everywhere. What We DoWe support pet parents through the highs lows and everyday moments of the pet parenting journey with:• Pet food treats and daily essentials• Supplies for dogs cats fish birds reptiles equine and small pets• Pharmacy and veterinary services including prescriptions and medications• Pet wellness and health products• Autoship for convenient recurring deliveries• Chewy+ our premium membership offering exclusive savings faster delivery and personalized pet care benefits• 24/7/365 customer support from knowledgeable pet-loving expertsWhat Makes Chewy DifferentChewy is known for industry-leading service deep personalization and our customer-obsessed culture. We combine trust convenience and care and pet parents come to us for: • Exceptional customer care• Human- and pet-centered product and experience design• Fast dependable fulfillment across a nationwide operations network• A mission-driven culture built on empathy trust and passion for petsOur CultureChewy’s culture is built for people who thrive on ownership innovation and impact. We value curiosity creativity and continuous improvement across all our teams. We empower Team Members—our Chewtopians—to learn grow and unleash their full potential in a collaborative supportive mission-driven environment.How We WorkChewy’s Operating Principles guide how we think innovate collaborate and execute. These principles shape our character decision-making and approach to delivering results while connecting our people and culture in support of our mission.Where We WorkChewy headquarters: Plantation FL and Boston MAAdditional hubs: Bellevue WA and Minneapolis MN
Why Work With Us
Why You Should Work at ChewyChewy is a unique fast-growing e-commerce and tech leader where builders creators and problem-solvers shape the future of pet care. Our teams drive innovation in a mission-driven culture that creates real impact for pets and the people who love them.
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05/26/2026
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