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About the Role

Chewy is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical direction of Chewy’s Discovery Experience platform. This role focuses on technical leadership, architecture, and cross-functional execution to deliver scalable, customer-facing solutions that influence one of Chewy’s fastest-growing areas and shape the future of product discovery.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of all customer-facing components of Chewy’s Discovery experience, including front-end web applications and APIs.
• Help evolve and grow Chewy’s search and recommendations system, serving millions of product search results and personalized content recommendations.
• Focus on scalability, latency, performance robustness, and cost trade-offs in single-page web applications served through cloud-based infrastructure.
• Apply scientific analysis and mathematical modeling techniques to predict, measure, and evaluate design consequences and platform success.
• Support the 24x7 operation of team services alongside a dedicated site reliability team.
• Drive best practices in software development, testing, and production deployment across the organization.
• Apply vision, strategy, and thought leadership to impact Chewy at scale.

Requirements

• 10+ years of industry experience building full-stack, customer-facing, web and mobile applications.
• Hands-on mentality and willingness to spend a significant percentage of time directing AI coding agents, reading code, architecting solutions, and debugging complex problems.
• Ability to mentor and develop engineers through technical guidance, thoughtful feedback, and leading by example.
• Solid communication skills and ability to work well in a team-based environment.
• Be located, or willing to relocate to be near our technical offices in Bellevue, WA.

Skills

• Next/React/Node/TypeScript
• AI-first approach to software development
• Building customer-facing applications at scale
• Technical judgment to apply emerging tools
• Operating at depth and connecting dots across technology stack
• E-Commerce
• Building Discovery, Search, or Recommendations experiences
• Designing Generative UIs for use with LLM Agents

Location

• Bellevue, WA

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Staff

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field

Salary/Compensations

• This position is eligible for 401k and a new hire and annual equity grant. C08+ positions may also be eligible for annual bonus.

Benefits

• Medical/Rx insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Hospital indemnity insurance
• Critical illness insurance
• Accident insurance
• Parental leave
• Family services benefits
• Backup dependent care
• Flexible spending accounts
• Telemedicine
• Pet adoption reimbursement
• Employee assistance program
• Discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com
• Unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval
• Six paid holidays per year
• Paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations

About the Company

• Chewy is a leading online retailer of pet food and pet-related products.

Equal Opportunity

• 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 CAAR@chewy.com.