Back-End Software Engineer II (Java)

Position Type: Contract

Location: Boston, MA (Onsite)

Job Description

Support Pethealth team building and changing services to improve fax services:

• Design and develop resilient data storage, messaging, and API systems for customer-facing web applications

• You will have responsibility over components of Chewy’s systems – both development and operational needs.

• Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development

• Be involved in design reviews and perform code reviews based on Chewy’s engineering rigor and standards

• Debug production issues in Chewy services and tech stack

• Measure and optimize the performance, effectiveness, and uptime of backend services

Project - Pethealth Faxing

• Bachelor’s Degree (MIS or CS preferred) or equivalent work experience

• 3+ years of experience in an object-oriented language such as Java

• Minimum 3 years of software development in Java8/Spring Boot stack

• Minimum of 3 years of cloud architecture and service development experience

• Be a hands-on Engineer spending significant percentage of their time writing code or debugging tricky issues

• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle 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

• analytical abilities and design skills & a working knowledge of design patterns

• Experience with designing, building and deploying features

• Ability to learn domain knowledge in the area of e-commerce