Senior Software Engineer, Physical Retail

Job Overview:

• Job Title: Senior Software Engineer, Physical Retail
• Hiring Organization: Wayfair 
• Company Website: https://www.wayfair.com/
• Remote Locations: United States
• Job Type: Remote, Full-Time

Wayfair believes everyone deserves a home they love, and that furnishing your home should be a source of fun. Our consumer-facing Product team plays a crucial role in making this vision a reality for millions of people around the world. Partnering with Product Management, Experience Design, Analytics and business leaders across Wayfair, our Engineering team ensures that we’re building technology that solves important customer problems in elegant, scalable, well-designed ways. We are evolving our platform towards a modern tech stack including sophisticated capabilities around AI, data science, and personalization. And we’re a highly collaborative, supportive team that values learning, psychological safety and intentional career development.

The Omnichannel Design Service team at Wayfair will be focusing on innovative support for both external and internal users with their designer service journeys. You’ll be leading the discovery, architectural design, development, and maintenance of the Omnichannel Design Service tools and tailored journeys for users to solve a variety of design and renovation projects to create a space they love.

We are looking for a Senior Fullstack Software Engineer with a passion for both of UX/UI and backend services to help us build best-in-class experiences and component libraries, influence the technical roadmap of the Omnichannel Design Service Engineering team, execute on the roadmap, drive new capabilities and stable platforms at-scale, and create significant business outcomes.

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 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. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or genetic information.

We are interested in retaining your data for a period of 12 months to consider you for suitable positions within Wayfair. Your personal data is processed in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Notice (which can found here: https://www.wayfair.com/careers/privacy). If you have any questions regarding our processing of your personal data, please contact us at dataprotectionofficer@wayfair.com. If you would rather not have us retain your data please contact us anytime at dataprotectionofficer@wayfair.com.

Job Responsibilities:

• Build modern full stack React applications from the ground up for Wayfair’s interior design platform
• Responsible for leading technical roadmaps, design, and implementation within highly ambiguous problem spaces
• Propose and own initiatives from start to finish while balancing various technical trade offs including speed to delivery, maintainability, system performance and others
• 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
• Collaborate with stakeholders across product and engineering to understand pain points and drive initiatives forward
• Leverage data to understand risks, priorities and scope of business objectives and develop near term goals and set technical objectives to meet the engineering and product vision

Job Requirements:

• A deep knowledge of JavaScript (React.JS) and its ecosystem. Experience developing reusable and extensible React component libraries for use in large JS applications
• An understanding of CSS/HTML best practice and related concepts at-scale (responsive/adaptive design, accessibility, libraries)
• Experience as a full stack, full lifecycle software engineer with deep understanding of Java
• Demonstrated history of implementing and managing large scale distributed systems while becoming a trusted expert in your space
• Deep expertise in gathering requirements from business stakeholders and deriving software requirements in high ambiguity situations
• 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 Frontend or Full Stack software development experience with 9+ years in web and distributed system development

Nice to Have

• A mix of start-up and large-company experience
• Experience with Contentful, Blockbuilder, TypeScript, and GraphQL
• A keen interest in the latest trends in engineering and technical leadership
• Bachelor in computer science or another related field

How To Apply:

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