Senior Software Engineering Manager - Wayfair Fulfillment Network (f/m/x)

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At Wayfair, we love solving complex business problems with technology to serve our millions of customers, to sell and deliver a catalog of millions of products, and to continue growing at a rapid pace – a journey enabled by more than 3000 Wayfair engineers.

The Warehousing Technology team is responsible for the systems powering dozens of fulfillment centers across multiple countries and continents. Our systems are processing the receipt, storage, and shipping of millions of boxes per month.

We are looking for a passionate engineering manager who loves to solve complex problems, learns fast, and shares knowledge to join our team in Berlin and help us build and optimize the systems responsible for receiving more than 1MM boxes every month, and store them in the perfect location within more than 4MM square feet of space across our global network of warehouses.

Our tech stack revolves around Java, Spring Boot, React, Android, Kubernetes, GCP, Kafka, and MSSQL.

If you love to solve real business problems at scale, in a fast-paced, high growth and agile environment, this is the role for you.

Your role at Wayfair

  • Lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team
  • Ensure your team has a compelling vision, mission, and the metrics to measure progress and success
  • Be accountable for the outcome of your team’s products including design, development, test, monitoring, and deployment
  • Engage your team to construct the technical roadmap and drive planning, delivery, and continuous improvement
  • Hire and develop inclusive, collaborative, high-performing engineering teams
  • Prioritize and optimize for sustainable time-to-value and high-quality engineering
  • Take calculated risks and manage trade-offs, articulating and taking accountability for the short and long-term consequences with partners
  • Provide technical insight and judgment of feature/schedule/cost trade-offs
  • Maintain and continuously improve agile delivery and engineering practices
  • Lead collaborative design and architecture discussions ensuring different perspectives are considered and ensure trade-offs and risks are well understood

What you bring to the table

  • You have an established track record in people and technical leadership
  • Experience of being responsible for the build and operation of products or services of varied scale and complexity
  • Practical experience in hiring and developing engineering teams, individuals, and culture
  • A natural collaborator and communicator with the ability to influence partners and peers at different levels
  • An accomplished mentor and coach with good performance management skills
  • Software development experience covering database design, programming, algorithms, performance, architecture, testing, monitoring, deployment, and 24/7 operations
  • Experience leading interdisciplinary teams in a fast-paced agile environment
  • Degree in Computer Science, a technical discipline, or equivalent work experience

And finally, our proposition to you!

  • Extensive career and growth opportunities in a fast-growing technology and retail powerhouse
  • Training & development, including world-class mentoring and tuition reimbursement for education relevant to your career
  • Opportunity to travel to tech centers and fulfillment centers to work with your global peers and stakeholders
  • Subsidized private pension fund (BAV)
  • Subsidized gym membership (Urban Sports Club), free yoga classes, and wellness weeks
  • Subsidized public transport subscription
  • Discounts on Wayfair sites for employee purchases
  • Participation in conferences & meetups we organize and sponsor
  • Access to subsidized child care resources

 

 

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.