- Play a key role in developing and driving a multi-year technology strategy for a complex platform
- Lead multiple software development teams - architecting solutions at scale to empower the business, and owning all aspects of the SDLC: design, build, deliver, and maintain
- Directly and indirectly manage several software engineers by providing coaching, guidance, and mentorship to grow the team as well as individuals
- Inspire, coach, mentor, and support your team members in their day to day work and their long term professional growth
- Attract, onboard, develop and retain diverse top talents, while fostering an inclusive and collaborative team and culture (our latest DEI Report)
- Lead your team and peers by example. As a senior member of the team your methodologies, technical and operational excellence practices, and system designs will help to continuously improve our domain
- Identify, propose, and drive initiatives to advance the technical skills, standards, practices, architecture, and documentation of our engineering teams
- Facilitate technical debate and decision making with an appreciation for trade-offs
- Continuously rethink and push the status quo, even when it challenges your/our established ideas.
- Results-oriented, collaborative, pragmatic, and continuous improvement mindset
- Hands-on experience driving software transformations within high-growth environments, previous platform experience is required.
- 12+ years of experience in engineering, out of which at least 5-6 years spent in leading highly performant teams and their managers
- Experience making architectural and design-related decisions for large scale platforms, understanding the tradeoffs between time-to-market vs. flexibility
- Significant experience and vocation in managing and enabling people's growth and performance
- Experience designing and building high-scale generalizable products with outstanding user experience. Practical experience in hiring and developing engineering teams and culture and leading interdisciplinary teams in a fast-paced agile environment
- Capability to communicate and collaborate across the wider organization, influencing decisions with and without direct authority and always with inclusive, adaptable, and persuasive communication
- Analytical and decision-making skills that integrate technical and business requirements
Engineering Manager, Global Supplier Tech - Bengaluru, India - Wayfair
Description
Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Bangalore, India and will be expected to comply with their team's hybrid work schedule requirements.
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.
Wayfair requires flexibility in our supplier contracts to meet current market demands. The Supplier Castlegate Forwarding Contracts team, based in Bengaluru, works with internal operations specialists to self-service the systemization and creation of supplier contract terms (eg. duration, lane rates, accessorials, PSS, MQC, etc). The team owns the logic to ensure accurate contracts and terms are applied to orders as they are ingated. Going forward the team plans to add additional supplier focused experiences and MQC management capabilities to allow suppliers to self-serve their contracts.
What You'll Do:
We Are a Match Because You Have:
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