Job description

At Wayfair, we love solving complex business problems with technology to serve our millions of customers, to sell and deliver a catalog of millions of products, and to continue growing at a rapid pace – a journey enabled by more than 3000 Wayfair engineers.

The Wayfair Fulfillment Network team is responsible for the systems powering dozens of warehouses across multiple countries and continents. Our systems are processing the inbound, storage, and shipping of millions of boxes per month.

We are looking for a passionate engineer who loves to solve complex problems, learns fast, and shares knowledge to join our team in Berlin and help us build and optimize the systems responsible for receiving more than 1MM boxes every month, and store them in the perfect location within more than 4MM square feet of space across our global network of warehouses.

Our tech stack revolves around Java, Spring Boot, React, Android, Kubernetes, GCP, Kafka, and MSSQL.

If you love to solve real business problems at scale, in a fast-paced, high growth and agile environment, this is the role for you.

Your role at Wayfair

• Be a technical leader within the teams you work with and the department
• Drive high impact architectural decisions and hands-on development, including inception, design, execution, and delivery following good design and coding practices
• Obsessively focus on production readiness for the team including testing, monitoring, deployment, documentation, and proactive troubleshooting
• Identify risks and gaps in technical approaches and propose solutions to meet team and project goals
• Create proposals and action plans to garner support across the organization
• Influence and contribute to the team’s strategy and roadmap
• Help grow other engineers technically by mentoring, pairing, and developing other opportunities for education
• Be externally recognized as a credible technical and product subject matter expert for the broader team’s focus area
• Continuously rethink and reevaluate the status quo, even when it argues with your/our past ideas

What you bring to the table

• Experienced in architecting and building large-scale, cloud-based, and event-driven systems across various projects
• Several years of experience with multiple programming languages, Java and PHP are nice to have
• Deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms
• Proven successes in mentoring engineers to improve standards and reduce defects in dynamic environments
• Capability to collaborate across the wider organization, influence even without direct authority with an inclusive, adaptable, and persuasive communication style 
• A track record of delivering in increments and learning as you go

And finally, our proposition to you!

• Extensive career and growth opportunities in a fast-growing technology and retail powerhouse
• Training & development, including world-class mentoring and tuition reimbursement for education relevant to your career
• Opportunity to travel to tech centers and fulfillment centers to work with your global peers and stakeholders
• Subsidized private pension fund (BAV)
• Subsidized gym membership (Urban Sports Club), free yoga classes, and wellness weeks
• Subsidized public transport subscription
• Discounts on Wayfair sites for employee purchases
• Participation in conferences & meetups we organize and sponsor
• Access to subsidized child care resources