Staff Engineer - Growth and Ad Platforms (f/m/x)

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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 14 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.

 

Growth and Ad Platforms is part of our Marketing Technology organization whose mission is to build and integrate enabling technologies to power all aspects of customer acquisition, retention, and engagement. They also expose best-of-class third-party and other Wayfair technologies through their platforms so marketers and suppliers can leverage them for their businesses.

 

Our Growth and Ad Platforms group is building a world-class, data-centric, user-friendly advertising technology platform that:

  • Automates/Streamlines campaigning across channels
  • Promotes platform and infrastructure agility and stability
  • Leverages sophisticated bidding algorithms
  • Leverages best-in-class product recommendations and personalization elements

What You Will Do:

  • Provide technical leadership for a team of 40+ software engineers and help shape the future roadmap for software platforms
  • As a core member of the team, your work will range from building a brand new platform from the ground up for the Campaign Automation group to ensuring scale on a new Products Data Feed platform 
  • Architect and implement robust, well-tested services. Provide technical design and code reviews for peers within your team and across the broader Marketing Technology org. 
  • Provide insights into opportunity areas for the platform, influencing priorities and team roadmaps in close partnership with Engineering and Product leadership.
  • Identify and implement new tools, technologies, and processes to accelerate developer velocity within our teams.
  • Promote a culture of engineering excellence, up-leveling the technical expertise of engineers across the Marketing Technology org.
  • Contribute to the technical development of engineers by mentoring and coaching them through learning opportunities.

What You’ll Need

  • Broad experience architecting and implementing robust, scalable, distributed web applications and event-based systems (10+ years or equivalent track-record).
  • Track-record of bringing new technical innovations to production environments
  • Track-record of being a hands-on developer efficiently building technically sound systems.
  • Superior organizational and analytical skills with hypothesis- driven problem solving and turning data into actionable insights
  • Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience driving teams forward and ability to influence decisions 
  • Experience with public cloud reference architectures and services, such as Google Cloud Platform or AWS
  • Experience with Kubernetes containerization, Java, Spark, and microservices preferred

What We’ll Gladly Offer

  • Highly competitive compensation packages (comprising of Base Salary, Bonuses and Equity)
  • Full ownership of your wellbeing with our unlimited “Personal Time Off”
  • Paid volunteering work
  • Contribution to private pension
  • Commuting schemes (car, bike, public transport)
  • Free access to LinkedIn e-learning courses and programs
  • Access to German language courses
  • Health & Sport memberships
  • Virtual child care
  • Global Wellbeing Program
  • Employee discount for Wayfair purchases
  • Full relocation support plus VISA 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.