Job Description:

Our Opportunity

Chewy is growing! We’re seeking a Frontend Software Engineer I to join our Payments Engineering team in Boston, MA. Chewy is THE go-to online shopping destination for all things pet, and our payments platform plays a central role in making every purchase feel effortless, trusted, and reliable for pet parents.

• Are you a passionate and energetic Software Engineer?

• Are you excited about developing solutions that power secure, seamless checkout and payment experiences?

• Can you adapt quickly as business needs evolve and scale?

• Are you a quality-focused engineer who cares deeply about reliability and customer trust?

If your answer is yes, read on.

About the Payments Team

The Payments Engineering team owns the end-to-end payment experience across Chewy.com. This includes all customer-facing payment flows such as:

• Wallet and stored payment methods

• Payment selection and orchestration

• Checkout payment experience

• Autoship payment experience and recurring billing flows

Beyond the UI, Payments also owns the full payments backend ecosystem, including:

• Payment processing systems

• Integrations with third-party payment providers and processors

• Reliability, performance, and observability of payment transactions

What You'll Do

As a Frontend Engineer, you will work closely with backend engineers, product managers, designers, and business partners in an Agile environment to build and evolve payment experiences that are fast, resilient, and intuitive. You’ll help design and deliver systems that operate at high scale and high availability, where correctness and customer trust are paramount.

If building polished frontend experiences that sit atop complex, critical systems excites you, this role may be for you.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience

• 1+ years of experience developing large-scale products using modern frontend technologies such as JavaScript/ES6, React, Next.js, CSS (SASS/SCSS), Webpack, Node.js

• Experience working with GraphQL

• Experience evaluating, measuring, and tuning application performance, particularly for frontend-heavy user flows

Bonus

• Backend development experience with Java/Kotlin

• Experience designing and developing reusable, accessible component libraries

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Working experience with Splunk, Datadog, Jenkins, Git, Artifactory

• Familiarity with payment systems, financial workflows, or third-party service integrations

• Experience with Test-Driven Development

• Data-informed product development using tools such as Google Analytics or Optimizely

The base salary range for this role is $103,000 - $160,000.00.

• 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 CAAR@chewy.com.

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