Senior Software Engineer, Android - App Buy

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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.

About App Buy

The Buy engineering, product, analytics and marketing teams collaborate to help customers make a confident purchase decision, and once they have made a decision we help them purchase quickly and seamlessly. Our vision is to make the buying experience on Wayfair’s family of Apps the most convenient, frictionless, and delightful mobile app buying experience out there. Not just for the home, but in general. Buy’s areas of responsibility are the product detail page, shipping messaging, user generated content, cart, and the checkout experience. 

What You'll Do

  • Write high quality Java, Kotlin and/or Swift code in collaboration with iOS and Android developers, and evaluate new frameworks and libraries.
  • Effective contributor to complex projects such as new apps, migrations, new features and automation. 
  • Adhere to best practices and coding standards when contributing to our Android apps, and begin to identify and call out any areas of architectural vulnerability.
  • Update product and engineering management on progress of work, while also raising any red flags that may hinder the success of the project.
  • Collaborate cross functionally with quality, UX, back-end/API, product, analytics, and other teams.
  • Participate in cross-team workgroups to improve our approaches to testing, UI components, GraphQL, or other areas.
  • Review code and provide clear feedback to other developers on your team.
  • Collaborate with our mobile platform team to improve our build processes, automation, and CI/CD.

What You'll Need

  • 8+ years of professional Android development on publicly available apps.
  • A passion for writing clean, readable, and thoroughly tested code, and an eagerness to share your expertise with others.
  • A solid understanding of Android fundamentals, interacting with endpoints, debugging, and memory management.
  • Experience having architected or designed complex features with product managers or other stakeholders is a big plus.
  • A solid understanding of architecture patterns such as MVP, MVVM, Clean/VIPER, etc., as well as async patterns.
  • A drive to learn about new libraries and technologies, stay on the cutting edge of the evolving mobile landscape and an eagerness to create experiences that will delight users.
  • A genuine belief that constructive and respectful code reviews are the bedrock of a healthy team

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.