Senior Software Engineering Manager, Finance Technology

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We are hiring a Senior Engineering Manager - an organizational leader - in Wayfair’s Finance Technology department. In this role, you will be one of our team’s most senior technical visionaries, developing our future technical roadmap, and ensuring that our engineering and data science teams are building a world-class finance and accounting platform. 

This new platform is a key pillar supporting the continued growth of Wayfair by enabling new and existing business lines to generate increased sales, collect revenue, and gain valuable financial performance insights with a minimal amount of initial or ongoing engineering effort.

The Finance Technology teams are building a re-imagined enterprise scale platform that will be key for the continued growth of Wayfair’s multi-billion dollar business. Our platforms support the Wayfair B2C/B2B website, our global logistics and warehouse network, and a multitude of new and exciting streams of revenue. Wayfair’s business lines generate a phenomenal amount of financial transactions and data points from our vast customer base. Every transaction and every dollar must pass through our team’s platform to be validated, analyzed, and reported. Our goal is to provide our external customers and internal team members with the best, and fastest, financial services possible through: 1) visibility into accurate financial information; 2) standardization of financial processes throughout Wayfair; 3) technological process improvements; and 4) holistic decision making, grounded in mutually beneficial revenue generating and cost saving opportunities. Our platform is a key piece in the continued growth of Wayfair by ensuring new business lines can seamlessly generate and collect revenue with no additional onboarding or engineering cost to support those streams.

 

What You'll Do:

  • Lead multiple software development teams - architecting solutions at scale to empower the business, and owning all aspects of the SDLC: design, build, deliver, and maintain
  • Directly and indirectly manage 15+ software engineers and managers by providing coaching, guidance, and mentorship to grow the team as well as individuals
  • Work with a variety of technologies, including PHP, Python, Java, SQL, React, Kafka, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and GCP
  • Play a key role in developing and driving a multi-year technology strategy in the finance domain
  • Develop and empower your peers by building an environment that promotes the growth, confidence, and productivity of the team outside of those you directly manage
  • Seek out, define, and evolve best practices within teams’ area of focus as well as initiatives that raise the standards across the organization

What you’ll need: 

  • Masters in computer science/related field or equivalent work experience
  • 10+ years of experience in engineering, with preference for candidates with a mix of start-up and large-company experience
  • 4+ years leading multiple managers with an organizational remit of 20 or more
  • Experience making architectural and design-related decisions for large scale platforms, understanding the tradeoffs between time-to-market vs. flexibility
  • Hands-on experience driving software transformations within high-growth environments
  • Experience hiring and mentoring engineers across all levels
  • Experience initiating and driving complex projects to completion with minimal guidance
  • Experience building a variety of applications ranging from low latency APIs to large scale batch systems
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders alike

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.