Senior Engineering Manager - Home Services

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Job Description

Wayfair is on a path to be the world’s largest online destination for the home.  We are the largest tech first platform in the home category. Our marketplace offers over 30 million products from 23,000 suppliers and we served 24 million customers in 2021 alone.

As a member of the Fintech & Loyalty team, you will partner with our 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. You will build and lead the local team and technology culture, hire and mentor, build new platforms, and grow your career.

The teams you build in the Bengaluru Technology Development Center will work in the Fintech, Loyalty and Payments domain collectively called Fintech & Loyalty. The platforms and experiences this team will build will enable us to offer the right set of financial products to our customers across geos and channels and customer segments, provide a seamless wallet experience and enable them to complete their purchase.  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.

We are in the middle of massive tech transformation and replatforming our tech stack to unlock the scale, speed, agility and craftsmanship.  Our platform vision includes the core tech fundamentals while also bringing cutting edge technology innovations to create world class experiences.  

 

What You’ll Do:

  • Build and grow Storefront Home Services engineering team presence in India from scratch
  • Play a key role and contribute in developing and driving a multi-year technology and organizational strategy for critical areas of business that span multiple systems, teams and increase the leverage of engineers across Storefront, Supplier, and promotions.
  • Lead 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 and managers 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.

 

What You’ll Need:

  • Results-oriented, collaborative, pragmatic, and continuous improvement mindset 
  • Hands-on experience driving software transformations within high-growth environments
  • 5+ years of experience in engineering,  out of which at least 4 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
  • Depth with customer-facing experiences and capabilities
  • Experience in building and scaling micro services in cloud native architecture
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with a diverse, globally distributed talented team

 

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.

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