Software Engineer, Storefront, GraphQL Platform

Software Engineer, Storefront, GraphQL Platform

Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Mountain View, CA and will be expected to comply with their team's hybrid work schedule requirements

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.  

The GraphQL Platform team is at the forefront of that technology transition, through building foundational patterns and systems for Federated GraphQL API design, data orchestration, and application architecture. The team delivers the GraphQL client and service best practices, tier-0 runtime, tools, and architecture support necessary for teams across Wayfair to build exceptional clients, services, and systems. Our team is packed with passionate engineers, and we are looking for folks with a keen desire to learn and grow to come join us!

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!

 

 

• Check out our Wayfair Tech Blog: https://www.aboutwayfair.com/careers/tech-blog. 
• Aanan Contractor is the Director for Storefront

 

What You Will Do:

• Flex your strength and knowledge of GraphQL in a distributed system, DevOps, service development, and support.
• Contribute to developing services that are built to industry best practices, including observability, architectural patterns, and inter-team dependency mechanisms (like SLOs)
• Write code to implement high-quality, scalable, future-proof features that will have effective system boundaries
• Participate in team planning and delivery meetings in a way that actively supports the goals and success of the team
• Identify risks and gaps in your assigned work and surface them to team leads
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and peers to define project requirements and execution plans

 

What you bring to the table

• 2+ years of experience in engineering, with a preference for candidates with a mix of start-up and large-company experience.
• 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 TypeScript, Rust, Java, or others).
• Experience with one or more common open source platforms, tools and framework, eg: GraphQL, Node.js, Java microservices, Kafka, Kubernetes, Containerization, Aerospike etc

 

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 to the most rewarding work of your career. If you’re looking for rapid growth, constant learning, and dynamic challenges, then you’ll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.

No matter who you are, Wayfair is a place you can call home. We’re a community of innovators, risk-takers, and trailblazers who celebrate our differences, and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger, smarter, and well-positioned for success. We value and rely on the collective voices of our employees, customers, community, and suppliers to help guide us as we build a better Wayfair – and world – for all. Every voice, every perspective matters. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer