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 embarking on a new journey to build our own core operating system (NaviOS) to power our growing freight forwarding business. Today, the combination of 3rd party tools and in-house addons powers the business. This system has allowed the business to grow so far, but NaviOS will be the platform of the future which will serve as the single source of truth for tracking the real world digitally. You will be instrumental to the success of this very high profile projec
What You Will Do:
- Provide technical leadership across multiple teams consisting of 20+ software engineers responsible for the platforms that model the supply chain capabilities across Wayfair and third-party partners
- Architect and implement robust, well-tested services. Provide technical design and code reviews for peers within your team and across the broader Supply Chain Engineering 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 Castlegate Forwarding.
- Contribute to the technical development of engineers by mentoring and coaching them through learning opportunities.
Who You Are:
- Broad experience architecting and implementing robust, 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.
- Experience with C#, Java, Python, or similar programming languages.
- Experience with Test Automation and Test Authoring.
- Experience with Continuous Integration (CI/CD) practices and tools (Buildkite, Jenkins, etc.).
- Experience architecting solutions leveraging distributed infrastructure (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).
- Experience leveraging monitoring and logging technologies (e.g. DataDog, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, etc.).
- Experience with various data serialization formats (i.e. Avro, Parquet, protobufs, etc.) and analytical databases (i.e. BigQuery, Presto, Hive, etc.).
- Preferably, familiarity with machine-learning or data-science techniques.
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.
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