Who we are
Wayfair believes everyone should live in a home they love. Through technology and innovation, Wayfair makes it possible for shoppers to quickly and easily find exactly what they want from a selection of more than 18 million items across home furnishings, decor, home improvement, housewares, and more. Committed to delighting its customers every step of the way, Wayfair is reinventing the way people shop for their homes – from product discovery to final delivery.
Who we are looking for
We are looking for a passionate and experienced Software Engineer II to join our Catalog Foundations Expansion Engineering team who would work on solving complex problems and building highly scalable applications. Your impact will drive efforts to tackle some of the most challenging problems we face as we continue to create a best-in-class shopping experience for our customers.
Findability Engineering helps maximize the revenue potential of our Catalog, and make sure that all products Wayfair has invested in are findable to the customer across all properties. To do that, we serve the comprehensive findability information to a spectrum of other engineering teams, build services that are able to detect abnormal and impactful drops from site, and empower fast root causing, and wherever possible, fix drops from site automatically.
What you will do
- As a senior member of one of the Merchandising Workflow & Services team, you will be working in a highly collaborative environment interacting closely with other software engineers & product managers to identify opportunities and implement solutions
- Drive high impact architectural decisions and development, design, execution, and delivery following best coding practices
- Obsessively focus on production readiness for the team including testing, monitoring, deployment, documentation and proactive troubleshooting
- Provide high quality contributions to the code base, using best practices and a high degree of autonomy
- Propose and own initiatives to completion while balancing various trade-offs including speed to delivery vs. ongoing maintainability
- You will mentor other engineers to become proficient developers using best software development practices and processes
What you bring to the table
- Experience in designing software systems based on Java/Spring Boot
- Understanding of resilience patterns and what it takes to build scalable systems in microservice architectures
- Experience implementing both asynchronous message-based communication and synchronous ones such as RESTful APIs
- Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL, e.g. MySQL, Cassandra)
- Experienced in architecting and building large-scale event-driven systems across various projects
- You have experience with automated testing
- Knowledge of CI/CD processes for build and deployment of various applications
- Great communication skills and the ability to support technical decision making with the team
- Willingness to learn new technologies or languages
- You have 5+ years of relevant work experience
- Degree in Computer Science, technical discipline or equivalent work experience
What we will gladly offer
- Highly competitive compensation packages (comprising of Base Salary and Equity),
- Full ownership of your wellbeing with our unlimited “Personal Time Off” (XYZ amount of days based on the job family)
- Paid volunteering work,
- Contribution to private pension,
- Commuting schemes (car, bike, public transport),
- Extensive internal training platform,
- Free access to LinkedIn e-learning courses and programs,
- Comprehensive financial scheme for Learning & Development opportunities and continuous education outside the organisation
- Access to German language courses,
- Health & Sport memberships,
- Virtual child care,
- Global Wellbeing Program for our employees and their families
- Parental leave, surrogacy and adoption reimbursement program, extended bereavement leave
- Employee discount for Wayfair purchases,
- Corporate benefits,
- A vast community of ERGs supporting our employees and making Wayfair an inclusive space for us all,
- Full relocation support plus VISA and sponsorship
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.