Software Engineer II

Chewy Chewy · Retail · Boston, MA +2

Software Engineer II on the HR Systems & Solutions team at Chewy. This role focuses on building and enhancing software products for HR operations, with an emphasis on data and AI. The engineer will develop scalable applications, services, and integrations, partner with HR stakeholders to automate and optimize business processes, and contribute to AI-enabled features, intelligent automation, and agentic workflows. The role requires strong programming experience, understanding of AI/ML platforms, and a hands-on approach to coding and debugging.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, build, test, deploy, and support software products and services for the HR organization
  2. Build operational Human Resources applications and tools with a focus on data and AI that leverage Chewy’s proprietary AI and machine learning platforms.
  3. Partner with Human Resources stakeholders to understand Chewy’s HR operating models and design solutions to help automate and optimize high-touch Human Resources business processes in a fast-paced 24x7 operating environment
  4. Work closely with non-technical stakeholders to define requirements and translate those into technical deliverables
  5. Contribute to AI-enabled features, intelligent automation, and agentic workflows that improve internal processes and user experiences

Skills

Required

  • BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years of strong programming experience with modern development technologies like Python, React and Java
  • Strong understanding of data models, SQL, APIs, Machine Learning and AI/LLM platforms
  • Demonstrate exceptional attention to detail by thoroughly analyzing production data, identifying root causes of issues, and driving timely, effective resolutions in high-impact environments
  • Experience working in a fast-paced e-commerce fulfillment, customer service or similar environment with large, non-exempt populations
  • Must be team oriented and have a customer first approach
  • Proficiency in Computer Science fundamentals – object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm - design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
  • Be a hands-on Engineer spending significant percentage of their time writing code or debugging 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
  • Experience evaluating, measuring, and tuning application performance
  • Experience with GitHub, DevOps, Jenkins, AWS and Terraform

Nice to have

  • Experience supporting HR systems or other enterprise-wide internal business applications
  • Experience building and deploying agentic AI solutions to automate workflows, support decision-making, and improve internal user experiences
  • Familiarity with modern AI engineering patterns such as prompt orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, model APIs, evaluation frameworks, or human-in-the-loop workflows
  • Experience with data engineering in large scale database environments, including utilities such as dbt or Apache Airflow
  • Experience with OpenAPI, Swagger, or stoplight.io
  • Experience with industry leading HCM Platforms, including Workday and UKG
  • Experience working in Agile development environments

What the JD emphasized

  • AI
  • machine learning
  • agentic workflows
  • agentic AI solutions

Other signals

  • Leverage Chewy's proprietary AI and machine learning platforms
  • Contribute to AI-enabled features, intelligent automation, and agentic workflows
  • Experience building and deploying agentic AI solutions