Software Engineering Manager - Outbound and Warehouse (f/m/x)
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Wayfair is moving the world so that anyone can live in a home they love – a journey enabled by more than 3000 Wayfair engineers.
A component of the Fulfillment & Logistics Superpod, the Warehouse & Outbound teams in Berlin, ensure suppliers have the tools they need to manage their inventory across all their warehouses and effectively ship out customer orders, meeting the customer expectations. As a Software Engineering Manager you will be responsible for the technical and people leadership of one team which is allowing suppliers to manage and self-service their inventory.
Your work will impact thousands of suppliers, and in turn, over 33m customers. As a result, you will have a tremendous opportunity to impact the growth and development of the business while taking part in our journey of a multi-billion dollar organisation (2021 Q1 financials).
What You'll Do
- Lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team.
- Partner with product on defining roadmaps and ensure the team has a compelling vision, mission, OKRs, and KPIs to measure progress and success
- Accountable for the systems your team is building 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'll Need
- Experience in building, documenting, and operating products or services of varied scale and complexity in Java.
- Experience with architectures developed in cloud-based and event-driven environments
- Experience with Monolith, SOA, and Microservice architectures that served as business and/or technical platforms.
- Hands-on software development leadership including coding, design, reviews and testing.
- Capability to collaborate across the wider organization, influence even without direct authority with an inclusive, adaptable, and persuasive communication style
- Practical experience and ability to coach and advance the team’s practices with pairing/mobbing, TDD, CI/CD.
- Practical experience in hiring and developing engineering teams and culture, as well as mentor, coach and growth your team.
What We’d Love To Also See:
- Docker and/or Kubernetes
- Experience with GCP, AWS or Azure
- Kafka and big data environments
What We’ll Gladly Offer
- Highly competitive compensation packages (comprising of Base Salary, Bonuses and Equity)
- Full ownership of your wellbeing with our unlimited “Personal Time Off”
- Paid volunteering work
- Contribution to private pension
- Commuting schemes (car, bike, public transport)
- Free access to LinkedIn e-learning courses and programs
- Access to German language courses
- Health & Sport memberships
- Virtual child care
- Global Wellbeing Program
- Employee discount for Wayfair purchases
- Full relocation support plus VISA sponsorship
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.