Senior Software Engineer, Wayfair
Supplier Advertisting Gen AI
CA$207.7-238.9k
A global online homeware marketplace
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A global online homeware marketplace
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$207.7-238.9k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home.
Role
Who you are
- Looking for an individual contributor expert in designing, developing, and deploying multi‑step ML/LLM agents that turn complex supplier ad workflows into intelligent, autonomous systems
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with expertise in designing and building scalable platforms
- Hands on experience in integrating ML/AI system
- Deep understanding of cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure
- Strong software engineering skills (Java, Python, REST/GraphQL APIs, Docker, Kubernetes
- Expertise in microservices architecture for highly available, large-scale distributed systems
- Ability to define a future state vision, lead large-scale architectural solutions, and guide step-by-step execution
- Passion for leading cross-functional projects, driving collaboration, and influencing design decisions to enhance customer experience and scalability
- Tenacity for learning - curious, and constantly pushing the boundary of what is possible
Desirable
- GenAI experience: working with LLMs, RAG pipelines, vector databases, prompt tuning, or real-time AI inference optimization, or model evaluation tools
- Agentic AI expertise: familiarity or hands-on experience with frameworks enabling autonomous agents—ReAct, Reflective Loops, tool-using agents, multi-agent systems - coordination, or distributed AI architectures
- ML architecture: model fine-tuning, LLM evaluation, reinforcement learning, memory mechanisms, and agent orchestration
- Understanding of agentic AI governance, trust, risk, and security frameworks4
What the job involves
- You will have the opportunity to lead our engineering efforts in helping suppliers set up and manage their advertising portfolios on Wayfair
- You will invent, enhance, and build world-class software solutions, delivering results, and working on exciting and challenging projects
- You will also have a focus on the customer experience, great teamwork and communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment
- Partner with your business stakeholders to shape the future Supplier Advertising vision and roadmap
- Be a technical leader within and across the teams you work with
- Drive high impact architectural decisions and hands-on development, including inception, design, execution, and delivery following good design and coding practices
- Obsessively focus on production readiness for the team including testing, monitoring, deployment, documentation and proactive troubleshooting
- Identify risks and gaps in technical approaches and propose solutions to meet team and project goals
- Advise engineering and product management on AI platform technical roadmap, ensuring that the vision aligns with broader company objectives
- Promote a culture of engineering excellence and strengthen the technical expertise of our AI engineering and product teams
- Keep current on AI engineering technology trends, evaluate, work on proof-of-concept and make recommendations on the technologies based on their merit
- Collaborate with Product Managers (PM) and Experience Designers (XD) and MLS to balance cost-effectiveness with business value and prioritize engineering solutions accordingly
- Mentor and coach engineers, conduct code reviews, and establish best practices to drive engineering excellence
- Foster adoption of new technologies, platforms, and architectural solutions across the team
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
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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