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Senior Full Stack Engineer, Sponsored Ads

Chewy · Boston, MA, USA ·

Pay:
$141,000-$225,000/yr
Job type:
Full Time

Our Opportunity

Chewy's Sponsored Ads business is growing rapidly, and we're looking for an experienced Senior Full Stack Engineer to help drive the evolution of our advertising platform. This role focuses on building scalable, high-performance systems that power key ad capabilities for both advertisers. You'll lead frontend development efforts, mentor junior engineers, and play a critical role in shaping one of Chewy’s fastest-growing revenue streams.

What You'll Do

  • Lead project delivery and system architecture for full stack services, while mentoring junior engineers and promoting engineering excellence across the team.
  • Design and implement scalable, low-latency services in Typescript, Java, Python, powering core advertising capabilities such as auction processing, targeting, and performance tracking.
  • Develop robust and well-documented RESTful APIs to support campaign management, reporting, and integration with advertiser-facing tools.
  • Build resilient systems with strong observability, leveraging automated testing, monitoring, and CI/CD pipelines using infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
  • Collaborate closely with product managers, data scientists, and fellow engineers to build systems that support real-time and asynchronous workflows.
  • Drive technical design reviews, conduct code reviews, and lead initiatives to improve platform reliability, performance, and scalability.
  • Take ownership of project estimation and delivery, partnering with stakeholders to deliver high-impact features that enhance the advertiser and customer experience on the Chewy Ads platform.

What You'll Need

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 5-10 years of experience as a Software Engineer, with a strong focus on backend development using modern languages and frameworks including Typescript, Java, Python, SpringBoot, NextJS and React.
  • Proven experience building scalable, highly available systems.
  • Experience integrating AI/ML models working alongside Data Science team.
  • Ninja coding and debugging skills.
  • Passion for data-driven development, observability, and metrics.
  • Knowledge of professional software engineering practices including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
  • Solid understanding of CS fundamentals: object-oriented design, algorithms, and problem-solving.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Bonus

  • Experience in Ad Tech and/or e-commerce.
  • Experience with Scrum, XP or other agile methodologies.
  • Experience with full stack development.
  • Familiarity with AWS cloud services, including serverless computing, data processing, and storage solutions.

Compensation and Benefits

Base salary range: $141,000 - $225,000. The specific salary offered may be influenced by relevant experience, education, and work location. This position is eligible for 401k plus a new hire and annual equity grant. C08+ positions may also be eligible for annual bonus.

Benefits include medical, Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, accident insurance, parental leave, family services benefits, backup dependent care, flexible spending accounts, telemedicine, pet adoption reimbursement, employee assistance program, and savings such as 10% off pet insurance and 20% off Chewy.com.

Exempt salary team members have unlimited paid time off, subject to manager approval. Team members receive six paid holidays per year. Paid sick and family leave is available in compliance with applicable state and local regulations.

Equal Employment 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, or any other legally protected characteristic. If an applicant has a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or a similar law and requires accommodations, please contact

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