Senior Software Engineer/Tech Lead, Wayfair
Marketing Technology
3 days a week in office
A global online homeware marketplace
Be an early applicant
A global online homeware marketplace
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home.
Role
Who you are
- B.S. or equivalent experience in computer science/related field
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering and designing systems at scale
- Experience with Cloud Native architectures
- Experience with Continuous Integration (CI/CD) practices and tools (Buildkite, Jenkins, etc.)
- Experience leveraging monitoring and logging technologies (e.g. DataDog)
- Track-record of being a hands-on developer, building technically sound systems
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading code reviews. Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques
- Experience building large scale Java based systems, relational and KV datastores and messaging systems
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with engineers, scientists, product managers, and business stakeholders alike
What the job involves
- The Marketing Technology team is responsible for building Wayfair's class leading, data centric technology platform that optimizes and powers all of Wayfair's advertising
- It touches hundreds of millions of consumers and drives billions of dollars in annual revenue
- Our platforms allow us to scale our marketing efforts efficiently by automating key processes, interacting with ad platforms such as Google, Meta, Pinterest & others in real time and leveraging hundreds of terabytes of data and ML algorithms for optimization and effective decision making on millions of items in our catalog
- The types of systems built by this team range from low latency REST and GraphQL APIs, to streaming systems processing billions of daily events in real time to large scale batch systems
- This role provides a great opportunity for strong engineers to act as a hands on tech lead for a small team, working independently to build a brand new system to solve an exciting business problem
- Drive the design and architecture of high impact systems
- Implement robust, well-tested services and systems
- Provide technical design and code reviews for peers within your team and across the broader org
- Act as the technical lead, working closely with cross functional partners and product managers
- Ensure effective support
- Manage, mentor and coach a small number ( one or two) of junior engineers
- Promote a culture of engineering excellence
- Use significant depth and breadth of technical expertise to ensure platforms being built are scalable, maintainable and extensible
- Own all aspect of effective, iterative delivery of features
Our take
Wayfair emerged in the early era of eCommerce with a mission to revolutionize online shopping, offering customers a convenient platform to purchase goods. Today, it stands as one of the foremost global players in the online furniture delivery industry, boasting an impressive inventory of over 33 million products.
Renowned for its extensive product range and comprehensive service offerings, Wayfair distinguishes itself by providing an end-to-end customer experience, from browsing to doorstep delivery. Despite its prominence, the company faces profitability challenges attributed largely to expansion expenses. Nonetheless, its solid presence in the competitive online homeware sector solidifies its position as a key contender.
With ambitious global expansion plans, Wayfair remains committed to maintaining its leadership in the industry. As it aspires to become the ultimate destination for all home needs, its more recent ventures into physical retail represent significant strides toward this overarching goal.
Kirsty
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Insights
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Prudential / St. Botolph, Boston, MA
Leadership
Niraj Shah
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Engineering at Cornell University before co-founding Spinners, a Boston-based IT services company. Previously acted as Entrepreneur in Residence for Greylock and has served as CEO of Wayfair since co-founding the company in 2002.
Steven Conine
(Co-Founder)Co-founded Spinners before working for Operations at iXL. Conine also co-founded Pillar VC in 2016.
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