Who We Are

Wayfair believes everyone deserves a home they love, and that furnishing your home should be a source of fun, not anxiety. Our consumer-facing Product team plays a crucial role in making this vision a reality for millions of people around the world. Partnering with Product Management, Experience Design, Analytics, and business leaders across Wayfair, our Engineering team ensures that we’re building technology that solves important customer problems in elegant, scalable, well-designed ways. We are evolving our platform towards a modern tech stack including sophisticated capabilities around AI, data science, and personalization. And we’re a highly collaborative, supportive team that values learning, psychological safety, and intentional career development. 

About the Team

The new Shopping Tools group at Wayfair will be focusing on innovative support for users on complex shopping journeys. It will enable omnichannel tools for users to solve design and renovation projects to create a space they love. We are looking for an Android Software Engineer to lead the efforts on 3D/AR, to give our users confidence in their purchase by letting them see what it will look like in real life. This includes developing cutting-edge experiences with 3D, AR on the web, and native app.

What You'll Do 

• Major contributor and/or tech lead of complex mobile initiatives, including architecting and developing new features, application maintenance, and refactoring, and increased performance and automation. 
• Follow and uphold best practices and coding standards across the entire team; review code and provide guidance for other code reviewers participating in our release approval process. 
• Being passionate about test coverage and quality engineering is paramount. 
• Work closely with product and engineering management to anticipate areas for improvement and investment, and to discuss any concerns w/ current direction.
• Contributes to our technical roadmap Collaborate cross-functionally with quality, UX, back-end/API, product, analytics, and other teams. 
• Identify and raise opportunities for improvements in our area of the codebase Review code and provide clear feedback to other developers on your team and adjacent groups. 
• Though primarily focused on Android, collaborate with iOS and full-stack teams to solve regressions and/or bridge feature parity gaps. 
• Lead by example; share knowledge, experience, and best practices through mentoring, tech talks, and presentations.

What You'll Need 

• At least 5+ years of professional Android development on publicly available apps.
• At least 1-2+ years experience leading teams in a senior capacity (or tech lead). 
• A passion for writing clean, readable, and thoroughly tested code, and an eagerness to share your expertise with others. 
• Experience working with 3D/AR (Sceneform/ARCore)
• A mastery of Android fundamentals, interacting with endpoints, debugging, and memory management. 
• Experience having architected or designed complex features with product managers or other stakeholders 
• A deep 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. 
• Knowledge of Material Design, Android UI/UX development, and best practices. 
• Expert-level knowledge of Kotlin, RxJava, Dagger 
• Knowledge of GraphQL, familiarity with building retail e-commerce applications, experience w/ Jetpack Compose is a plus. 
• Masters in computer science or another related field preferred.