Software Engineer II, Global Transportation Systems

We are looking for someone in Austin, TX who is comfortable working a hybrid schedule. 

Who We Are:

Wayfair runs the largest custom e-commerce large parcel network in the United States, approximately 1.6 million square meters of logistics space. The nature of the network is inherently a highly variable ecosystem that requires flexible, reliable, and resilient systems to operate efficiently. 

We are looking for a passionate software engineer to join the Global Transportation Systems (GTS) Trip Execution team, the team responsible for the systems that enable our delivery network, allocate trailers and Trucks to transport shipments to ensure that customer promises are met, assign routes and lanes, publish milestones tracking events for the shipments, notify warehouse facilities about shipments, send EDI message to Carriers, collect necessary geo fencing data, receive events from trans oceanic carriers to use Wayfair’s internal service to reduce transportation costs and modify/create tools for operations . As part of our team, you will be solving complex problems that have a direct impact on our supply chain operations and end-customers.

For this role, we need a software engineer that will influence our software technology transformation architecture to keep up with industry standards, build microservices and mentor their peers to drive advancement initiatives within their team to improve systems, practices, and software delivery. You will be working in a results-oriented team that highly values good collaboration and autonomy. The tech stack includes Java, Kafka, PHP, React and a mix of GraphQL, REST, RDBMs,Terraform,GCP, C#  and K8s among others. 

What You’ll Do:

As a part of our team, you’ll make sure we’re delivering high value to our company while building long-sighted reliable solutions.

• Lead high impact projects 
• Manage value, complexity, and risk
• Partner with your business stakeholders, providing them transparency, data, and resources to make informed decisions
• Build web-based services and products that are robust and scalable
• Nurture an innovative engineering culture and support the growth of your teammates
• Solve a wide range of challenging business problems in supply chain that extend the competitive advantage that separates Wayfair from other online retailers
• Work on a diverse group of systems that covers everything in the web stack
• Work with several large and complex data stores and queries
• Develop algorithms to streamline back end business workflow
• Contribute to architectural and code review discussions impacting our engineering ecosystem

What You'll Need:

• Effective communication skills
• Goal-oriented, collaborative, pragmatic, and continuous improvement  mindset
• Experience working as a Software Engineer
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases
• Knowledge of HTTP and web development technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• Experience working with event-driven architectures, DDD, and TDD
• Abstract thinking skills
• Experience and desire to work in an agile environment
• Interest in being challenged in a fast-paced environment while having fun
• Analytical and creative mindset and passion for solving business problems with technology
• Ability to quickly translate business requirements into working features
• Ability to break down complex features into small usable parts

At Wayfair, we want every new engineer to help raise the bar for our engineering teams -- to bring in new ideas, to mentor strong engineers, and to serve as a model of a technical leader. All of these aspects are particularly important for this role. We value people who are: risk-taking, data-oriented & collaborative. We are not biased towards any specific technology be it C#, Python, Javascript, Java, instead, we place tremendous value on engineers who are excited to make an impact on the overall business.

We are looking forward to your application!

About Wayfair

Wayfair (NYSE: W) offers an extensive selection of home furnishings and décor across all styles and price points with a superior customer service and inspiring interior topics. With an unparalleled selection of more than eighteen million home items from 12,000 suppliers, Wayfair helps people find the perfect product at the right price. Always committed to using technology to create a superior shopping experience, Wayfair developed Wayfair Next which concentrates on 3D visualization technology.

Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with operations throughout North America and Europe, the company employs more than 16,700 people.

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