This position is based in Austin, TX. This is a hybrid role that requires three days in-office per week.
Who We Are:
Wayfair believes everyone should live in a home they love. Through technology and innovation, we make it possible for shoppers to quickly and easily find exactly what they want from a selection of more than 14 million items across home furnishings, décor, home improvement, housewares, and more. Partnering with Product, Experience Design, Analytics, and business leaders across Wayfair, our Engineering teams ensure that we’re building technology that solves important customer problems in elegant, scalable, measurable ways.
The Castlegate Forwarding team is building our own core operating system (NaviOS) to power our growing freight forwarding business. NaviOS is the platform of the future that will serve as the single source of truth for tracking the real world digitally. You will be instrumental in the success of this very high-profile project.
What You'll Do:
- Lead and manage an atomic team of engineers focused on building services, integrations, and tools powering Castlegate Forwarding Business and its interactions with partners.
- Own the outcome of the team both from a technical and performance perspective.
- Mentor and coach engineers in the team through training, code reviews, design session, and 1:1 mentorship providing career and professional development for your staff.
- Work not only within your pod but across Castlegate Forwarding and wider Wayfair Eng. to create and leverage standard APIs.
- Accountable for the systems built by your team including technical design, development, testing, monitoring, and deployment.
- Engage your team to construct the technical roadmap and lead planning, delivering and continuous improvement.
- Partner with product on defining roadmaps and ensure the team has a compelling mission with well-defined KPIs to measure progress and success.
- Raise the bar from both a technical and process perspective.
Who You Are:
- 5+ years of software development experience with strong familiarity in at least one programming language (PHP, Python, .NET, JavaScript, Java, etc.) and relational databases (SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, etc). Experience with GCP or AWS is a plus.
- 3+ years of experience managing a high performing engineering team.
- Ability to think creatively and find opportunities in processes, code and architecture to improve
- Team Player with a collaborative approach to problem solving
- Strong communication skills and ability to work cross functionally with design and product counterparts
Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities
Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please let us know by completing our Accomodations for Applicants form.
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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, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.
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