Software Engineer II, Marketing Technology

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Who We Are

The Growth & Ad Platforms Engineering team is responsible for building Wayfair's class leading, data centric technology platform that optimizes and powers all of Wayfair's paid advertising. It touches hundreds of millions of consumers and drives billions of dollars in annual revenue. Our platforms allow us to scale our marketing efforts efficiently by automating key processes, interacting with ad vendors in real time and leveraging hundreds of terabytes of data and ML algorithms for optimization and effective decision making on millions of items in our catalog.The types of systems built by this team range from low latency REST APIs, to real time streaming systems to high performance large scale batch systems.

 

What You’ll Do

  • Take complex engineering problems, design appropriate solutions and deliver on them fairly independently with limited oversight.
  • Work on a variety of technologies - from large batch processes using Airflow and Spark, to event based systems using Kafka, K8s and Storm/Flink to robust REST APIs . 
  • Work closely as needed with the Data Science team and develop good architectural patterns allowing us to deploy ML models quickly and flexibly
  • Design systems that can handle large volumes of data and provide robustness, resilience to failures and smart anomaly detection capabilities
  • Be a multiplier, mentor other engineers on the team and help them become more productive and implement engineering best practices
  • Work with Senior Leadership to provide your vision and expertise to drive future products, and new features on existing products

What You’ll Need

  • 5+ years experience as a full stack, full lifecycle software engineer with a deep understanding of a modern programming languages  
  • Experience working with Data Science teams and familiarity with Machine Learning concepts will be a big plus
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to work effectively with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders alike
  • Experience mentoring engineers and leading code and design reviews
  • Proficiency in designing robust, reliable systems at scale 
  • Experience with data engineering at scale

 

About Us

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.

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.