Senior Software Engineering Manager - Catalog Expansion (f/m/x)

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As we accelerate our organisation growth for the European HQ (link to post), we are strengthening our engineering leadership team by hiring leadership roles for our teams.

We are looking for a passionate and experienced Senior Manager (Software Engineering) to lead our Product Services Engineering domain, consisting of 3 atomic teams, to solve complex problems and build highly scalable applications. Your impact will drive efforts to tackle some of the most challenging problems we face as we continue to create a best-in-class shopping experience for our customers.

The Product Services' mission is to provide reliable, secure & scalable solutions that improve merchandising. We develop tools and services that allow our in-house and offshore teams to grow the Wayfair product catalog. By providing efficient and scalable workflow infrastructure, our operators can expand and protect our Brands. This enables our customers to find products through brands they come to know and love.

It is your opportunity to bring engineering best practices and operational excellence to the table, leading early-stage projects and teams while taking part in our journey to grow a multi-billion dollar organisation (2021 financials).

What you will do:

Lead and grow multi-disciplinary engineering teams and their associated Engineering Managers.
Partner with the Product team on roadmaps and ensure the team has a compelling vision, mission and the OKRs and KPIs to measure progress and success.
Lead on technical feasibility and rollout of components companywide
Accountable for the outcome of your team including technical design, development, test, monitoring, and deployment.
Engage your team to construct the technical roadmap and lead planning, delivery and continuous improvement.
Balance calculated risks, trade-offs and consequences in prioritizing and optimizing for sustainable time-to-value and high-quality engineering.
Maintain and continuously improve agile delivery and engineering practices.
Attract, onboard, develop and retain diverse top talents, while fostering an inclusive and collaborative team and culture (our latest DEI Report)

What you bring to the table:

An established track record and multiple experiences across technical and people leadership, ideally leading interdisciplinary teams in a fast-paced agile environment. A minimum leadership tenure of 5 years.
Understanding of what it takes to build scalable systems in microservice architectures.
Experience in architecting and building large-scale event-driven systems across various projects.
Practical experience and ability to coach as well as advance the team’s practices with pairing/mobbing, TDD, and CI/CD.
Practical experience in hiring and developing engineering teams and culture.
A natural collaborator and communicator with the ability to influence partners and peers at different levels.
An accomplished mentor and coach with proven performance management skills. It is important that you would have led managers before.
Experience in designing software systems based on Java/Python. Knowledge of and experience with C#, PHP and Javascript are an advantage but not required.
Experience covering database design, programming, algorithms, performance, architecture, testing, monitoring, deployment and 24/7 operations.

What We’ll Gladly Offer:

Highly competitive compensation packages (comprising of Base Salary and Equity). Full VISA sponsorship if required
Relocation support (the role can be based remote in Germany)
Full ownership of your wellbeing with our unlimited “Personal Time Off”,
Paid volunteering work,
Contribution to private pension,
Commuting schemes (car, bike, public transport),
Extensive internal training platform,
Free access to LinkedIn e-learning courses and programs,
Comprehensive financial scheme for Learning & Development opportunities and continuous education,
Access to free language courses,
Health & Sport memberships,
Virtual child care,
Global Wellbeing Program,
Surrogacy and adoption reimbursement program, extended bereavement leave
Employee discount for Wayfair purchases,
Corporate benefits

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.