Software Engineering Manager - Supplier Application Platform (f/m/x)

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The Partner Home Core team, based in Berlin, is responsible for building our next generation supplier application platform. As we accelerate our organisation growth for the European HQ (link to post) we are strengthening our engineering leadership team by hiring Engineering Managers for our teams. 

The roles hold some of the most impactful positions in our engineering organisation and you will have full ownership over both people and technical leadership topics. 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 Q1 financials)

Through our supplier platform - technical services, we offer enterprise components and frameworks for creating supplier facing applications to our engineering teams: Common front-end components, shared services for supplier offerings, and application-specific tools. The platform we provide has to achieve both, accelerate Wayfair’s teams and enable a best-in-class user experience for our suppliers. We have big aspirations for more advanced, differentiated services that will help our suppliers onboard, manage, grow, and optimize their e-commerce performance.

What You'll Do

  • Lead a cross-functional engineering team. 
  • Partner with your dedicated senior Product Manager for defining roadmaps, OKRs, and success metrics
  • Be accountable for the systems your team is building including technical design, development, test, monitoring, and deployment.
  • Envision, shape and deliver the technical landscape enabling a high growth organisation at scale
  • 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

  • A strong background with cloud platforms, SOA, and Microservice architectures that served as business and/or technical platforms.
  • Experience of leading interdisciplinary teams in a fast-paced agile environment.
  • Experience with Java.
  • Hands-on software development leadership including coding, design, reviews and testing.
  • Being a passionate and engaged collaborator and communicator, with the ability to influence partners and peers at different levels.
  • Practical experience and ability to coach and advance the team’s practices with pairing/mobbing, TDD, CI/CD. 
  • Experience hiring and growing engineers, across levels.

What We’d Love To Also See:

  • Experience with cloud services - AWS, Azure or GCP.
  • Kubernetes or Docker.

What We’ll Gladly Offer:

  • Highly competitive compensation packages (comprising of Base Salary, Bonuses and Equity). Full VISA sponsorship.
  • Relocation support 
  • 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 German language courses,
  • Health & Sport memberships,
  • Virtual child care,
  • Global Wellbeing Program,
  • Employee discount for Wayfair purchases,
  • Corporate benefits
  • Full VISA sponsorship, plus relocation support

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.