Software Engineer II, Storefront Services

Who We Are:

At Wayfair we are well on the way to becoming the world’s number one, online destination for all things home. Our core belief is that everyone should live in a home they love. We make this possible by ensuring our 24 million customers have all the technology and innovation they need at their fingertips, to give them access to our more than 33 million products which are provided by our 23,000 awesome global suppliers. In the Storefront team, we are the first impression of a  customer’s shopping experience; we own the design and implementation of the customer-facing website. We partner with Product, Experience Design, Analytics and business leaders across Wayfair; our Storefront Engineering teams ensure that we’re building technology that solves important customer problems in elegant, scalable, measurable ways.  

Our Site Services teams own systems that deliver various capabilities to the eCommerce platform. From site merchandising and customization, to navigation, to personalization, the Site Services teams own and develop capabilities critical to the success of the customer journey and the company. Within the domain, the teams will both be building new capabilities as well as rearchitecting and migrating existing functionality and data as part of the overall technology transformation effort.

If you love to solve real business problems at scale, in a fast-paced, high growth and agile environment, this is the role for you!

What You Will Do:

• Flex your strength and knowledge on Java, DevOps, and microservice development.
• Define and ensure services are built to industry best practices, including observability, architectural patterns, and inter-team dependency mechanisms (like SLOs)
• Drive high-impact solutions at a team level, including inception, design, execution, and delivery following good design and coding practices
• Write code to implement high-quality, scalable, future-proof services that will have effective system boundaries and will support long-term vision & strategy
• Participate in technical debates within and across teams to help come to durable documented conclusions
• Work closely with architects and other teams across Storefront to breakdown an existing PHP monolith into well defined Java Microservices with clean boundaries and clear API contracts
• Identify risks and gaps in technical approaches and propose solutions to meet the team’s technical vision
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and peer engineering teams to define project requirements and execution plans

We Are A Match Because You Have:

• 5+ years of experience in engineering, with a preference for candidates with a mix of start-up and large-company experience. eComm domain expertise is a bonus
• Hands-on experience delivering software within high-growth environments at scale 
• Experienced in designing and building large-scale, cloud-based systems across various projects
• Experience operating distributed services at scale, including familiarity with observability tools, logging techniques, troubleshooting, and incident response.
• Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience driving solutions forward and ability to influence results
• Expertise with a modern programming language (such as Python, Java, C#, Scala, GO, or others). Java experience preferred.
• Experience with one or more common open source platforms, tools and framework, eg: Kafka, Kubernetes, Containerization, Java microservices, GraphQL APIs, Aerospike etc

Why You’ll Love Wayfair:

• Time Off:
• Paid Holidays
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Health & Wellness:
• Full Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA/FSA)
• Life Insurance
• Disability Protection (Short Term & Long Term Disability) 
• Global Wellbeing: Gym/Fitness discounts (including US Peloton, Global ClassPass, and various regional gym memberships)
• Mental Health Support (Global Mental Health, Global Wayhealthy Recordings)
• Caregiver Services
• Financial Growth & Security:
• 401K Matching (Employee Matching Program)
• Tuition Reimbursement 
• Financial Health Education (Knowledge of Financial Education - KOFE)
• Tax Advantaged Accounts
• Family Support:
• Family Planning Support
• Parental Leave
• Global Surrogacy & Adoption Policy
• Professional Development & Recognition:
• Rewards & Recognition 
• Global Employee Anniversary Awards 
• Paid Volunteer Work 
• Unique Perks:
• Employee Discount 
• U.S. Bluebikes Membership
• Global Pod Outings