Senior Software Engineer
Location: Boston, MA
Category: Full Stack Engineering
Who We Are:
Wayfair believes everyone should live in a home they love. Through technology and innovation,
we make it possible for shoppers to quickly and easily find exactly what they want from a
selection of more than 14 million items across home furnishings, décor, home improvement,
housewares and more. Partnering with Product, Experience Design, Analytics and business
leaders across Wayfair, our Engineering teams ensure that we’re building technology that
solves important customer problems in elegant, scalable, measurable ways.

Our Engineering organization includes a variety of teams solving interesting problems:
• Storefront: Shopping for your home can be overwhelming. Wayfair is an extreme case it's
visited by two million people daily, shopping across more than 14 million products. Our software
engineering teams work to make an extremely complex process seamless for our customers.
Shopping for your home should be exciting, and we want every customer to come away feeling
like they've found the perfect item for them.
• Wayfair’s Ad Tech & Customer Intelligence Engineering team builds solutions that let Wayfair
communicate with new and existing customers effectively across advertising, email, and onsite
touchpoints. This team is at the intersection of product, marketing, data science, and technology
which allows us to be a leader in the Ad Technology space. We are using cutting edge
intelligent systems, big data at scale, and world class ad tech to drive phenomenal growth in a
multi-billion dollar business.
• The Supply Chain teams are responsible for all of the systems related to the physical
movement of Wayfair products. Everything from warehousing, order tracking, inventory
forecasting to routing systems and final mile delivery. This group is essential to ensuring
customers are provided with the best service experience in e-commerce. The majority of
Wayfair’s business is built on repeat customers and it is important for them to have a smooth
delivery experience to ensure they keep them coming back.
• The Sales, Service and Enterprise platforms are focused on building and improving software
that directly impacts customers, customer service agents, sales associates, Finance, Talent
Management and external vendors. Our engineers are responsible for all the tools and
processes to support these business-critical operations of Wayfair, along with supporting the
continued enhancement and scaling capabilities of these systems. Engineers use data,

user-centric design, machine learning, and Agile to achieve operational excellence, fueling
company growth.

What You'll Do
• Provide high quality contributions to the code base, with a mind to best practices and an
equally high degree of autonomy.
• Work with senior leadership to architect solutions and ensure that we deliver the right
functionality, in a timely manner.
• Mentor junior engineers to develop the next generation of Wayfair engineering.
• See your work as it powers improved customer understanding / experience or enables new
features and functionality in our ad tech stack.
• Handle ambiguity with limited oversight; leverage technical acumen, experience, and network
to answer questions and remove roadblocks.
• Propose and own initiatives to completion while balancing various trade-offs including speed to
delivery vs. ongoing maintainability and others.
• Collaborate well with senior management, product managers, and all other stakeholders.

What You’ll Need:
• 5+ years of experience in software development.
• Fluency in a server side programming language (Java, Python, C#, and or PHP preferred).
• Understanding of the end-to-end web stack including specifics of the HTTP protocol and
proficiency with designing systems at scale.
• Experience with big data, streaming technologies and / or RESTful web service development
preferred.
• Entrepreneurial spirit and a drive to own a part of Wayfair’s success.
• Experience building cross-functional consensus and working with stakeholders such as
product managers.

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