The Algorithms team at Wayfair creates decision frameworks, data artifacts and systems that 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 technical leader to drive the development of our next generation algorithms platform that helps drive our retail pricing, profitability and replenishment decisions across the entire catalog.
The Pricing Org is undergoing two critical transformations and we are looking for a technical leader to help drive this change.
The first is a technology transformation from a set of tightly coupled, monolithic, batch processing systems that price our catalog to a highly performant, event-driven, service based pricing architecture with strong operational posture . Our team works with big data at scale and needs to support services handling over 10K requests / sec and manage datasets in the 100’s of TB. The second is a business transformation in how we price products driven by our merchandising vision. The challenge for our team over the next year is to execute against these two visions (technical and business) so that we can accurately calculate prices at scale.
We’re looking for an individual who has helped companies succeed at this level of scale. You will partner with business , data science and product leadership to evolve our platform for the next five years.
Our team is intensely collaborative. We leverage a variety of technologies, including Python, Hive, Spark, Kafka, and Airflow. We also use a variety of services in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for our end-end systems.
What You’ll Do
- Own the core platforms and capabilities for retail pricing, profitability and replenishment algorithms across Wayfair. Responsible for the technical vision and architecture and operations of these platforms.
- Define non-functional requirements considering performance, availability, scalability and efficiency
- Act as a technical lead for cross-functional multi-team projects
- Document and communicate the multi-year strategic technical direction for pricing, profitability and replenishment, and gets buy-in from all appropriate stakeholders
- Become the person recognized by senior management as a person that needs to be in the room when technical decisions are made
- Mentor engineers across all algorithms group on best practices, patterns and designs based on your wealth of experience and knowledge.
- Design and implement the most technically challenging aspects of our platform
- Own the entire platform’s architecture, and 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!
What You’ll Need
- 12+ years experience with at least 8 years in a technical leadership role
- Experience with scaling distributed systems, streaming technologies, microservice architectures.
- Experience architecting large scale data structures in a cloud environment, preferably within Google Cloud Platform
- Demonstrated ability to make and execute platform level technical decisions
- Prior experience as a technical leader for software engineering teams of 25+
- A history of strong partnerships with product management
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with other senior leaders across the organization
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.
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