Who We Are
The mission of our Competitive Intelligence team is to define, gather, analyze and distribute market intelligence about competitors to enable market-based assessments of Wayfair’s business performance, guide targeted interventions, and track progress filling competitive gaps. This is a unique opportunity to collaborate with our Competitive Intelligence business partners and design engineering platforms to gather and store a vast amount of competitive information at scale. The intelligence you gather will form the foundation of a valuable data system that will drive major business decisions across every major department at the company. The scope of impact is broad and ambitious; we want you to take pride and ownership in what you’re building - a truly cutting edge Competitive Intelligence system unmatched in the industry.
What You'll Do
- Serve as a senior member of the team for a large group of engineers and engineering managers, including mentoring, breaking down work, and guiding implementation
- Work cross-functionally with different roles and teams, such as product management, core areas of the business, and other engineering teams to understand the problems we need to solve, and solution against them
- Help make decisions to drive the technology platform and roadmap for the team to ensure current and future scalability and performance - you’ll be helping us solve some complex architectural problems!
- Provide high-quality code reviews, propose ideas for technical improvements and scalable architectural designs.
- Mentor new hires and other engineers to help them become more proficient by example, tech talks, paired programming, and other avenues to increase technical efficiency across the organization.
What You'll Need
- 5+ years professional experience as a software engineer or related field.
- Experience in development of new applications using technologies such as Python, Java,.NET, SQL, Google Cloud Services such as Dataflow and Dataproc, messaging systems like Kafka, and in-memory cache technologies like Aerospike.
- Containerized development using Docker, deployed to Kubernetes within a hybrid of both on-prem (WF's datacenters) and cloud (GCP/Google Cloud Platform) or any other cloud platform AWS or Azure.
- Experience working with large datasets and different Cloud data storage options.
- Ability to develop creative solutions with customer experience and scalability on top of mind.
- Experience developing microservices in highly available and large-scale distributed systems.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders alike.
- Experience mentoring engineers, leading code reviews, and establishing best engineering practices.
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.