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Who We Are:
Storefront Engineering is in the enviable position of being able to speak directly to our customers. Through powerful technology, we make shopping our millions of products feel simple and personal, whether customers are just browsing while on-the-go on our native app or finalizing purchase decisions on the desktop from the comfort of their home.
As Wayfair continues to see massive growth, Storefront Engineering is going through a major technology transition, empowering teams to build services and interfaces that can be updated and deployed independently. We are on the journey to build the tools and services to deliver value to our customers more quickly, all in an environment where engineering teams have the autonomy to make the right decision for themselves and their product.
The Storefront Platforms team builds and supports platforms which collectively refer to the foundational services, technologies, frameworks, libraries, tools and design assets that support application development.
We support organizations outside of Storefront that have a direct impact on the customer experience, as well as user-focused platforms, including the UI platform for all of our web applications. Our team is composed of the following nine groups: Performance Engineering, Login & Authentication, Dynamic Page Architecture, Promotional Tooling, Frontend Platforms, Backend Platforms, Homebase, Content Strategy and UX Research.
Mission: Scale our infrastructure, systems, and assets to drive efficiencies as a world-class tech company.
The Homebase Engineering team owns, maintains, and iterates on the primary design system and React component libraries used across all of Wayfair engineering. Homebase is primarily a collection of reusable components, styles, and patterns that can be assembled to build any number of experiences and applications across Wayfair. Homebase engineering works closely with design and product on evolving the platform, components, and governance cycles that have a huge impact on our consumer and supplier users.
What You’ll Do:
- Manage a team (potentially multiple teams) of 5+ front-end engineers across one or more of the current Homebase squads (Library, Enablement, and Accessibility).
- Help facilitate the creation and success of a brand-new Homebase squad (Accessibility) and tackle the creation of tooling and solutions to pave the pathway to a high standard of accessibility compliance across Wayfair UIs.
- Guide team strategy, roadmap definition, negotiation and prioritization, resource allocation, and team building.
- Work directly with designers, engineers, and product owners to expand on component functionalities, customizability, themes, documentation, education, support, onboarding to ensure reusability, performance, and ease-of-use across many teams and use cases.
- Contribute to the identification and gathering of metrics to measure the utilization, performance, and usage compliance of the Homebase library across numerous applications.
- Form relationships and collaborate with numerous engineering, product, and design organizations to identify opportunity areas and help deliver on cross-functional goals.
What You’ll Need:
Required Qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience successfully managing one or more engineering teams.
- Strong knowledge of and experience with developing UIs with React.
- A passion for UI, UX, and design systems.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and a willingness to coordinate across several organizations with ambiguous requirements.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity navigating design tools like Sketch/Figma.
- Strong knowledge of and experience with web accessibility (a11y) and best practices.
- Experience with Node.js
- Experience with data/metrics collection & visualization utilizing technologies such as InfluxDB, Datadog, Grafana, Kibana, etc.
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.