Software Engineer, Advertising Engineering

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. Partnering with Product, Experience Design, Analytics and business leaders across Wayfair, our Engineering teams ensure that we’re building technology that solves important customer problems in elegant, scalable, measurable ways.  

 About The Team:

We are the Advertising Engineering group within Wayfair. We work with our supplier community creating end to end solutions that help increase their sales and exposure on Wayfair sites and apps through targeted ads and sponsorships. Not only are we generating millions in extra revenue for suppliers and solidifying Wayfair as a preferred partner, but we’ve built a significant business that’s one of the highest growth areas in the company.  We exist to enable our partners with the ability to engage the right Wayfair customer with the right message. In doing so, Wayfair not only becomes the destination for all things home, but also empowers our partners to build their business within the home category. We want to create one platform to empower our partners to reach consumers wherever they shop. We want this platform to enable a fully self-service display offering, we currently use 3rd party integration as well as end to end display solution built house to show relevant ads to the customers., We use ML/Data science and real time auction systems to determine the most relevant ad for the page context.

Technologies: GraphQL, BigQuery, Airflow, Java, Google Cloud Storage, PHP, Jenkins, ReactJS

What You’ll Do:

• Work in our Java applications to implement new capabilities and business features while optimizing performance.
• Work with Product Managers and business partners to identify requirements 
• You’ll be participating in technical roadmaps, design, and implementation within a team of high performing engineers that will shape the future of Advertising in Wayfair.
• Provide high-quality code reviews and contribute architectural designs.

What You’ll Need:

• Experience as a full stack, full lifecycle software engineer and deep understanding of a modern programming language (such as Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, C#, Scala, GO, or others)
• Passion for leading a large, cross-cutting technical initiative to delivery, cross-functional consensus building and influencing design decisions 
• Ample experience gathering requirements from business stakeholders and deriving software requirements
• Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL, e.g. MySQL, Cassandra)
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform or AWS/Azure at scale 
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders alike
• Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques

Candidates for this position should be based in the Boston. MA and will be expected to comply with their team's hybrid work schedule requirements. 

 

 

 

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 let us know by completing our Accomodations for Applicants form.

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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 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 a