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Wayfair Hiring for Senior Software Engineering Manager – Supply Chain at Bangalore, India Full Time
Who We Are
Wayfair is on a path to be the world’s largest online destination for the home, tapping into a TAM of $1200bln by 2030. Our marketplace offers over 30 million products from 23,000 suppliers and we served 24 million customers in 2021 alone.
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.
The teams you build in the Bengaluru delivery 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 Wayfair’s greenfield Omni Supply Chain Platform to scale our innovative large parcel network that serves our vast marketplace. While this is a massive mission in itself, you will also work to establish a site that can quickly expand to a wider set of domains including marketing and adtech, data science, eCommerce as well as supplier and partner services.
What you will do:
- Lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team (to begin with)
- Ensure your team has a compelling vision, mission, and metrics to measure progress and success
- Engage in high-impact architectural decisions and development, design, execution, and delivery following best coding practices
- Be accountable for the outcome of your team’s products including design, development, test, monitoring, and deployment
- Partner with your product peers and stakeholders to define meaningful goals, projects, and project stories
- Engage your team to construct the technical roadmap and drive planning and delivery and continuous improvement
- Attract, onboard, develop and retain diverse top talents, while fostering an inclusive and collaborative team and culture (our latest DEI Report)
- Take calculated risks and manage trade-offs, articulating and taking accountability for the short and long-term consequences with partners
- Provide technical insight and judgment of feature/schedule/cost trade-offs
- Maintain and continuously improve agile delivery and engineering practices
- Lead collaborative design and architecture discussions ensuring different perspectives are considered and ensure trade-offs and risks are well understood
What you bring to the table:
- You have an established track record in people and technical leadership – Experience in leading interdisciplinary teams in a fast-paced agile environment of over 4 years
- A strong background in SOA, and Microservice architectures that served as business and/or technical platforms.
- Hands-on software development leadership including coding, design, reviews and testing.
- Being a passionate and engaged collaborator and communicator, with the ability to influence partners and peers at different levels.
- Practical experience and ability to coach and advance the team’s practices with pairing/mobbing, TDD, CI/CD.
- Practical experience in hiring and developing inclusive and culturally diverse engineering teams.
- An accomplished mentor and coach with good performance management skills
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.
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