Our Opportunity: We are looking for a Software Engineer III at our Minneapolis, MN location to develop Systems/Component architectures and APIs for a rapidly scaling platform, while ensuring successful product delivery and operational excellence. What You'll Do: * Design, develop and implement large-scale distributed systems with large volumes of data, focusing on scalability, latency, and resiliency. * Articulate and evangelize architectural principles with engineering teams that ensure that system components align with Chewy's business direction. * Align with key stakeholders at all levels of the organization, while acting as a trusted advisor for the Engineering organization. * Lead research and PoC initiatives for cloud native designs and implementation within public clouds, primarily AWS. * Represent the Customer Platforms team in the architecture guild and shape its initiatives. * Think big and beyond the Customer Platforms team to influence enterprise technical roadmap. * Conduct design/code reviews while raising the bar for all of engineering. * Debug critical hard to solve production issues across services and tech stack. * Continuously measure and optimize the performance, effectiveness, and uptime of services. * Responsible for establishing data integration patterns, data governance practices and data management related OKRs and KPIs. * Well versed in setting MDM platform (Master Data Management), building MDM services for 3rd party data ingestion and establish match, merge, survivorship rules to enhance data quality, integrity and consistency. * Manage Vendor relationship, negotiating contracts and partner with vendor tech team on feature upgrades. * Mentor and coach engineers and product managers to deliver efforts on committed timelines. * Telecommuting permitted. What You'll Need: * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related field and 7 years of experience in software development in Java. * Will also accept a Master's degree and 5 years of experience in software development in Java. * Experience must include 5 years in the following: using SQL; * Full software development lifecycle; * AWS; * Performing code reviews; * Creating, using, and maintaining REST APIs; * Working in an agile software development environment; * Building products that are E-Commerce scale. * Experience must include 3 years in: MDM technology, data management and governance; * Managing vendor solutions; * Cloud technologies, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud; * Containerization; * Presenting to senior leadership and C-Suite. * Experience must include 2 years in: leading and coaching an engineering team. * Telecommuting permitted. * The position is eligible for the Employee Referral Program.