Senior Software Engineer, Wayfair
Supplier Advertising Experience
A global online homeware marketplace
Open for applications
A global online homeware marketplace
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with expertise in designing and building scalable platforms
- Hands-on contribution to the codebase is a MUST
- Extensive knowledge of backend technologies, proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, or similar
- Experience in full-stack development will be preferred
- Experience in e-commerce advertising, including ad targeting, campaign management, performance tracking, and integration with advertising platforms
- Expertise in microservices architecture for highly available, large-scale distributed systems
- Deep understanding of cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure
- Ability to define a future state vision, lead large-scale architectural solutions, and guide step-by-step execution
- Collaborate with Product Managers (PM) and Experience Designers (XD) to balance cost-effectiveness with business value and prioritize engineering solutions accordingly
- Define internal priorities during project execution based on engineering aspects and solution designs
- 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
- Passion for leading cross-functional projects, driving collaboration, and influencing design decisions to enhance customer experience and scalability
What the job involves
- Our offsite Retail Media Network is a new addition to our Supplier Advertising Experience suite
- This addition allows suppliers to promote their products directly on the offsite Retail Media Network, providing customers with an enhanced shopping experience
- With RMN, suppliers have increased visibility and control over their offsite advertising campaigns through a dedicated platform to manage sponsored offerings, performance and budgets
- Successful candidates will have to solve complex and broad business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices, building solutions that are scaled and performed
- 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 provide them with transparency, data, and resources to make informed decisions
- 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
- Create proposals and action plans to garner support across the organization
- Influence and contribute to the team’s strategy and roadmap
- Tenacity for learning - curious, and constantly pushing the boundary of what is possible
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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