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Wayfair Hiring for Senior Software Engineer, Backend, Storefront at Bangalore, India Full Time

Sr. Software Engineer, Backend Engineering, Storefront 

Bengaluru is home to our brand new, strategic technology delivery center and will be critical to achieving our future growth plans. We are looking for best in class Engineers to come in and help scale our technical products and teams alike as we continue on our path to be the world’s number one online destination for the home.

As a Lead Engineer on our Storefront, Core Services team, you’ll have a multitude of opportunities to flex your strengths and knowledge on Java, DevOps, and Microservice. We are responsible for building out a number of services that power our wayfair.com ecommerce site and core ecommerce platform. You will be responsible for being a technical leader who will help architect, design, and implement the tools and services to power the workhorse that drives the usability of Wayfair’s digital assets.

This is a hybrid role based out of our Bangalore, India office.

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
  • Influence and contribute to the technical and product strategy and roadmap
  • Design, architect and implement flexible, robust, and scalable Java microservices that provide the data and business logic for our wayfair.com front-ends via federerate GraphQL APIs
  • Define and ensure services are built to industry best practices, including observability, architectural patterns, and inter-team dependency mechanisms (like SLOs)
  • Work closely with architects and other teams across Storefront to breakdown an existing PHP monolith into well defined Java Microservices with clean boundaries and clear API contracts
  • Work closely with our partners on the Storefront Platform and Storefront Customer Experience teams to build out a best-in-class new platform
  • Work closely with product managers, designers, and peer engineering teams to define project requirements and execution plans

What You’ll Need:

  • 10+ 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 Java programming language 
  • 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

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.

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. 

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