Senior Software Engineer - Physical Retail

Senior Software Engineer - Physical Retail 

 

Location: Remote - Eastern Time Zone preferred

 

Who We Are:

Wayfair believes everyone should live in a home they love. Through technology and innovation, we make it possible for shoppers to quickly and easily find exactly what they want from a selection of more than 14 million items across home furnishings, décor, home improvement, housewares and more.

The Physical Retail team is a growing space for Wayfair and responsible for providing technology solutions to support the Physical Retail experience, including customer and associate facing applications and experiences on the sales floor. We are looking for skilled engineers to bring our world class e-commerce experience to our customers who still prefer sitting on their couches first. This team is responsible for developing Android and Web applications to support visual merchandise and inventory management operations in physical retail stores. As a member of this team, you will have an enormous impact on the trajectory of our technology and business capabilities, and grow your career while finding meaningful ways to make a difference.

 

What You’ll Do:

• As a Senior Engineer and technical leader, you’ll be responsible for leading technical roadmaps, design, and implementation within highly ambiguous problem spaces.
• Lead a high performing team of 6 talented engineers and responsible for supporting operations of existing and new stores.
• Propose and own initiatives from start to finish while balancing various technical trade offs including speed to delivery, maintainability, system performance and others.
• Drive high impact architectural decisions and hands-on development, including inception, design, execution, and delivery following good design and coding practices.
• Mentor new hires and other engineers to help them become more proficient by example, tech talks, paired programming, and other avenues to increase technical efficiency across the organization.

What You’ll Need:

• Experience as a full stack, full lifecycle software engineer with deep understanding of a modern programming language (such as Java, JavaScript, React, Kotlin).
• Passion for leading large cross-cutting technical initiatives while becoming a trusted expert in your space.
• Deep expertise in gathering requirements from business stakeholders and deriving software requirements in high ambiguity situations.
• An eagerness to collaborate and work with other teams to achieve the best outcome for the customer.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders alike.
• Proficient in designing systems at scale, managing relational databases and developing integrations for both internal and external partners. Skilled in the way of effective troubleshooting, debugging and issue resolution techniques.
• 5+ Years of experience as a team/technical lead with 8+ years in web and distributed system development.
• 2+ Years of experience working in decoupled systems using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Physical retail experience preferred but not required.

 

The salary range for this position is $155,250 - $171,000 however, base pay offered may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered.

Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities
Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact candidateaccommodations@wayfair.com.
 
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About Wayfair Inc.
Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston or Berlin, or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world, we’re reinventing the way people shop for their homes. Through our commitment to industry-leading technology and creative problem-solving, we are confident that Wayfair will be home