Senior Java Software Engineer - Bengaluru, India - Wayfair

Description

Wayfair is one of the world's largest online destinations for the home. We are the largest tech first platform in the home category. Our marketplace offers over 30 million products from 23,000 suppliers and we served 22 million customers in 2022 alone. 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.

As a founding member of the team, you will partner with our global technology and business leaders to build the technology platform to support our growth plans to $50B USD and beyond. You will flex your leadership, organizational and talent development skills to assemble a multidisciplinary team that delivers global impact. You will establish the site and technology culture, hire and mentor, build new platforms, and grow your career.

Who we are

The Global Supplier technology team is responsible for building the scalable platforms for the supplier ecosystem in Wayfair. It starts with establishment of supplier entities, their catalog journey, advertisement, pricing & order management. This platform provides all necessary accelerants for supplier business growth like supplier ads, business insights & recommendations. We build scalable platforms to meet the demands of customers and suppliers alike.

The teams you build in the Bengaluru technology center will work across multiple domains that drive speed and convenience for the customer and cost efficiency across the full value chain. Our work requires us to move fast and collaborate with some of the most talented engineers, creatives, product managers, data scientists, operators, and analysts to discover, build, and scale world-class software products.

The initial focus for the site will be to build various supplier platform initiatives cross catalog, pricing and data science to serve our vast marketplace. You will play a pivotal role in building the site including hiring, setting up the culture and establishing right ownership for the teams.

What You'll Do:

• Work cross-functionally with different roles and teams, such as product management, core
• areas of the business, and other engineering teams to understand the problems we need to
• solve, and solution against them in a globally distributed environment.
• Own the entire platform's architecture and help make decisions to drive the technology
• platform and roadmap for the team to ensure current and future scalability and performance -
• you'll be helping us solve some complex architectural problems
• Implement and advocate for engineering best practices, helping level up the engineers inside
• and outside your team
• Demonstrate the drive to improve the team at every step, whether it's leveling up your or the
• team's knowledge, making process improvements, or rearchitecting our platform for the next
• level of scale
• Lead technical debate and decision making ensuring no-regret decisions with appreciation
• for trade-offs
• Nurture collaborative ways of working that grow the team, its members and the product:
• testing practices, TDD, pairing/mobbing, continuous deployment, domain-driven design.

What You'll Need:

• 6+ years experience in Software Engineering with designing and building large scale
• platforms.
• Experience leading/supervising and/or mentoring engineers, leading code reviews, and
• establishing best engineering practices.
• Passion for leading cross functional projects through collaboration and influencing design
• decisions.
• Deep understanding of modern programming languages such as Java, Python, PHP, C#, Go,
• Scala, or similar languages.
• Ability to develop creative solutions with customer experience and scalability on top of mind.
• Experience developing microservices in highly available and large scale distributed systems.
• Experience deploying solutions into production within GCP, AWS, Azure or similar cloud
• platforms
• Experience in developing and deploying services/applications in Kubernetes (K8s)
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with engineers, product
• managers, and business stakeholders alike.
• Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities

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 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, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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