The Algorithms team at Wayfair creates decision frameworks, data artifacts and tools to effectively guide business strategies and decision-making across Wayfair. These algorithms leverage best-in-class approaches across machine learning, economics and statistics to drive high business impact. We are hiring a senior software engineer in Demand Forecasting whose mission is to drive efficient trade-offs between product availability, delivery speed and operating cost to make effective supply chain decisions across Wayfair and its suppliers. 

What You'll Do

• Leading technical projects including project planning and team building. 
• Writing robust, well tested code for major team initiatives. 
• Leading development of new services using technologies such as Python, Spark, Hadoop, deep learning frameworks such as Pytorch, messaging systems like Kafka, and in-memory cache/search technologies like Aerospike and Solr.
• Containerized development using Docker, deployed to Kubernetes within a hybrid of both on-prem (WF's datacenters) and cloud (GCP/Google Cloud Platform).
• Owning work through to successful release, including automated testing, monitoring, deployment, and proactive troubleshooting.
• Working on a team with cross-functional/cross-platform scope, including data scientists, product managers, product associates, and analytics.
• Coaching and mentoring other engineers
• Systems design and optimization.

What You'll Need

• 5+ years of software development experience in an Object Oriented language such as Python, Java, or PHP
• A proven record of delivering scalable services from the ground up
• The ability to collaborate with business partners and draw out the software requirements from their ideas.
• Expertise in full-stack development including OOP and systems design in a service oriented architecture.
• Ability to work effectively unsupervised, dive into a project/problem, and adapt to evolving requirements.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders alike.
• Experience with Demand Forecasting is preferred

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.