Wayfair runs the largest in-house-built big parcel network of all e-commerces in the United States, standing at approximately 1.6 million square meters of logistics space across North America and Europe. A network of these massive proportions is inherently a highly variable ecosystem that requires flexible, reliable, and resilient systems to operate efficiently.
As the Staff Engineer you will work with our cross-functional International markets team, you will have the opportunity to empower your team to contribute to building some of the most resilient domains in our organisation. And we need your help to further strengthen, empower and support the engineering organisation by bringing engineering best practices and operational excellence to the table.
For this role, we need a Staff frontend software engineer that will influence our software architecture and their peers to drive advancement initiatives within their team to improve our systems, practices, and business. You will be working in a results-oriented team that highly values good collaboration and autonomy. The tech stack includes React, Typescript, PHP, a mix of REST and Kafka interfaces, RDBMs, Aerospike, and K8s among others. And will be incorporating other technologies as the platform evolves.
The Role
As a part of our team, you’ll make sure we’re delivering high value to our company while building long-sighted reliable solutions.
- Take ownership of high impact projects
- Manage value, complexity, and risk.
- Partner with your business stakeholders, providing them transparency, data, and resources to make informed decisions
- Build web-based products that are robust and scalable
- Work alongside with backend and frontend engineers as well as UI designers.
- Nurture an innovative engineering culture and support the growth of your teammates
- Solve a wide range of complex business problems that extend the competitive advantage that separates Wayfair from other companies
- Work on a diverse group of systems that covers everything in the web stack
- Contribute to architectural and code review discussions impacting our engineering ecosystem
What You'll Need
- A passion for technology. You love untangling and bringing order to complex systems, and you’re able to unite teams to execute toward that common goal.
- A passion for customer-driven design and development. It’s not just about executing on a project specification handed to you by a stakeholder, but about working together to figure out exactly what the customer wants, and delivering it to them
- 8-15 years industry experience preferred with at least 5 years of experience driving organizational change through technical leadership
- Extensive experience with SQL and object-oriented languages like Java, PHP or Scala along with object-oriented design, and a thorough understanding of system design for the web
- Demonstrated ability to make and execute platform level technical decisions, gaining team understanding and buy-in for those decisions
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills at the senior leadership level
- Experience with internationalization platforms a plus
At Wayfair, we want every new engineer to help raise the bar for our engineering teams -- to bring in new ideas, to mentor strong engineers, and to serve as a model of a technical leader. All of these aspects are particularly important for this role. We value people who are: risk-taking, data-oriented & collaborative. We are not biassed towards any specific technology be it PHP, C#, Python, Javascript, Java, instead, we place tremendous value on engineers who are excited to make an impact on the overall business.
What we will gladly offer
- Highly competitive compensation packages (comprising of Base Salary, Bonuses and Equity). Full VISA sponsorship.
- 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
We are looking forward to your application!
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.