Staff Software Engineer, Wayfair Delivery Network (Transportation)

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Who We Are

The Wayfair Delivery Network (WDN) powers our ability to deliver goods across Wayfair's global supply chain. The WDN Software Engineering group builds systems that scale beyond our high growth rate. We have over 15 agile teams with strong Logistics and Operations fundamentals working across our Boston and Berlin offices. Our teams build a variety of applications including user-facing mobile apps to drive in-building and on-road execution, algorithmic order routing and cost optimization, and many more!

What You Will Do

  • Provide technical leadership for a team of 20+ software engineers responsible for the platforms that model the supply chain capabilities across Wayfair and third-party partners, building streams to capture change events in our network, services to pre-compute unit movement and other transportation data, and APIs for teams to access the pre-computed data.
  • Architect and implement robust, well-tested services. Provide technical design and code reviews for peers within your team and across the broader Transportation 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 Fulfillment Optimization.
  • Contribute to the technical development of engineers by mentoring and coaching.

What You’ll Need

  • 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 Test Automation and Test Authoring.
  • Experience with Continuous Integration (CI/CD) practices and tools (Buildkite, Jenkins, or similar).
  • Experience architecting solutions leveraging distributed infrastructure (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, or similar).
  • Experience leveraging monitoring and logging technologies (e.g. DataDog, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, or similar).
  • 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.

Wayfair believes everyone deserves a home they love, and that furnishing your home should be a source of fun, not anxiety. Our consumer-facing Product team plays a crucial role in making this vision a reality for millions of people around the world. Partnering with Product Management, Experience Design, Analytics and business leaders across Wayfair, our Engineering team ensures that we’re building technology that solves important customer problems in elegant, scalable, well-designed ways. We are evolving our platform towards a modern tech stack including sophisticated capabilities around AI, data science, and personalization. And we’re a highly collaborative, supportive team that values learning, psychological safety and intentional career development.

The salary range for this position is $210,000 - $234,000. However, base pay offered may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered.

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 contact [email protected].
 
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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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