Location: Boston, MA (Open to Remote)

Category: Mobile App Engineering

The Physical Retail Engineering team at Wayfair is laying the foundation for Wayfair’s entry into physical stores. We plan on complementing our already fantastic digital customer experience with a network of physical stores that give our customers an entirely new way to shop. On the journey, we’ll both transform our existing custom apps to support our stores with exciting omni-channel features, and build a new suite of apps to make sure our store associates can delight customers both in store and online.

We’re looking for qualified Android native engineers to lead one of several new application development teams. This is a rare opportunity to build a large suite of apps from scratch. You’ll take advantage of the very latest tools and patterns that all loosely interact with each other on the same device as well as other applications on customer and third-party devices.

Join us as a founding member of the team and help us launch this exciting new capability for Wayfair!

You’ll make an impact if you:

• Have a deep interest and passion for technology.
• Are a fast learner and have desire to grow.
• Encourage others to grow and be curious.
• Are self-driven and motivated to work in a results-driven agile environment.
• Enjoy taking ownership and delivering on commitment.
• Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead development for complex mobile initiatives, including architecting and developing new features, application maintenance and refactoring, while increasing performance and automation.
• Define best practices and coding standards across the entire team; review code and provide guidance for other code reviewers participating in our release approval process.
• Use data and metrics to collaboratively drive impactful changes across the application; work closely with product and engineering management to anticipate areas for improvement and investment, and highlight these for inclusion in the team's project roadmap.
• Work with application platforms team to ensure best-in-class development environment and tooling for feature teams, enabling faster and more seamless development of feature work across the platform.
• Frequently interface and interact with quality, UX, back-end/API, product, analytics, and other teams.
• Evaluate other frameworks and libraries for inclusion in our dev process and address key areas of architectural vulnerability across our codebase.
• While primarily focused on Android mobile development, the team will also contribute to an orchestration layer (BFF) service that provides some common functionality and proxies calls out to many microservices.
• Lead by example; share knowledge, experience, and best practices through mentoring, tech talks, and presentations.

What You’ll Need

• At least 5+ years of professional Android development.
• At least 7-10 years of professional software development.
• Mastery of Kotlin and Java and an eagerness to share your knowledge with others; a desire to continuously learn as you strive to develop and improve as a team.
• At least 3+ years experience working in a senior capacity (tech lead/architect).
• Knowledge of Material Design, Android UI/UX development, and best practices.
• Hands-on experience integrating applications with REST APIs and a plus for experience with GraphQL APIs.
• Intimate knowledge of software design patterns and experience working with different architectures (MVVM, MVC, MVI, etc) and a working knowledge of the advantages, disadvantages, and trade-offs associated with each.
• Agile experience and extensive experience working on an agile development team.
• Experience with Jetpack Compose is a plus.
• Back-end development experience in Java is a plus.