Software Engineer, Wayfair
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A global online homeware marketplace
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A global online homeware marketplace
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home.
Role
Who you are
- A graduate of a computer science, mathematics, engineering, physical science related degree program with 7+ years of experience in a senior engineer or technical lead role
- 5+ years of Java experience in developing and maintaining high performing, scalable, fault-tolerant and highly available RESTful API
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with engineers, product managers, data scientists, analysts and business stakeholders
- Passion for mentoring and leading peer engineers
- Strong experience in Spring Framework or Dropwizard and Hibernate
- Experience with Service-Oriented architecture (REST & GraphQL) and ability to architect scalable microservices
- Ability to maintain a stable application infrastructure with appropriate metrics, logging and monitors
- Experience with Lucene-based Search engines like Solr or Elasticsearch is a plus
- Experience using Docker, Kubernetes or other containerization technologies is a plus
- Experience with streaming technologies like Spark, Storm, Kafka, etc are a plus
- Good understanding of SRE/DevOps and experience in cloud-computing technologies and puppet is a big plus
- A continuous drive to explore, enhance, automate and optimize distributed systems
- Experience with Test-Driven Development and CI/CD tools like Buildkite, Cucumber or Karate
- Good understanding of Version control tools, preferably Git and GitHub
- Experience with large-scale data processing and design of distributed systems is a plus
- Experience in Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing is a plus
- Comfortable working in a collaborative, fast-paced and dynamic work environment
What the job involves
- Mentor a team of individual contributors in a complex domain
- Proactively identify high impact problems and work with product managers to add them to the roadmap, motivate team(s) and own the delivery of the projects
- Develop and design scalable distributed systems with deep understanding of object oriented design, modern programming languages, and design patterns
- Perform backend application development using technologies such as Java, Python, SQL, ElasticSearch, Solr, Kafka and Kubernetes
- Provides high quality reviews, both for code changes and architectural design of high complexity
- Define monitoring plans using technologies like Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Kibana, Datadog and Grafana
- Tune application performance by investigating the slow performing requests and analyzing the resource utilization of the application infrastructure
- Perform SQL database development including query design, performance tuning, and data ETL
- Work with a highly collaborative cross-functional team that includes product managers, data scientists, and infrastructure engineers
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Wayfair emerged in the early era of eCommerce with a mission to revolutionize online shopping, offering customers a convenient platform to purchase goods. Today, it stands as one of the foremost global players in the online furniture delivery industry, boasting an impressive inventory of over 33 million products.
Renowned for its extensive product range and comprehensive service offerings, Wayfair distinguishes itself by providing an end-to-end customer experience, from browsing to doorstep delivery. Despite its prominence, the company faces profitability challenges attributed largely to expansion expenses. Nonetheless, its solid presence in the competitive online homeware sector solidifies its position as a key contender.
With ambitious global expansion plans, Wayfair remains committed to maintaining its leadership in the industry. As it aspires to become the ultimate destination for all home needs, its more recent ventures into physical retail represent significant strides toward this overarching goal.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company values
- Relentless Customer Focus: Delivering an exceptional customer experience drives everything we do. We invest in understanding our customers and partners. We are all in customer service
- Deliver Rsults With Agility: We prioritize work that drives long-term value. We execute with urgency, learn from failure, and nimbly pivot. The outcomes of our efforts are impactful, measurable results
- Use Good Judgement: We are bold and confident, never reckless. We make reasoned, calculated decisions based on data, critical thinking, and pattern recognition
- Build the Best Team: We lead by setting the bar high, articulating clear goals, and diving deep. We hire, develop, and leverage only the best. Our leaders continually reevaluate and strengthen their teams and do not shy away from hard decisions. We expect and demonstrate excellence
- Collaborate Effectively: We invest in cross-functional global partnerships that maximize impact and minimize duplication. We prize collaboration in all interactions – with our teammates, stakeholders, and suppliers. We disagree, align, and commit. Effectiveness and efficiency in collaboration are required.
- Respect Others: We earn and show respect, treating our teammates and partners with empathy and inclusion. We presume good intent while prioritizing impact. We balance confidence and candor with humility and kindness.
- Be an Owner: We are Wayfair first. We act on what’s best for the company, ahead of team or individual goals. We spend every dollar as if it is our own. We take pride in Wayfair’s success while planning the next win. We always think long-term
- Innovate & Improve: We are not limited by precedent. We boldly challenge the norm. We continually identify opportunities to innovate, improve, and simplify. We value incremental improvements, but we also look for game-changing breakthroughs.
- Adapt & Grow: We value adaptability and self-reflection. We find opportunity in every change, experience, and mistake. We are committed to continuous self-improvement.
Company HQ
Prudential / St. Botolph, Boston, MA
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Founders
Niraj Shah
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Engineering at Cornell University before co-founding Spinners, a Boston-based IT services company. Previously acted as Entrepreneur in Residence for Greylock and has served as CEO of Wayfair since co-founding the company in 2002.
Steven Conine
(Co-Founder)Co-founded Spinners before working for Operations at iXL. Conine also co-founded Pillar VC in 2016.
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