Senior Software Engineer, Supply Chain Retail Technology

Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Bangalore, India and will be expected to comply with their team's hybrid work schedule requirements.

Who We Are :

Wayfair runs the largest custom e-commerce large parcel network in the United States, approximately 1.6 million square meters of logistics space. The nature of the network is inherently a highly variable ecosystem that requires flexible, reliable, and resilient systems to operate efficiently.

We are looking for a passionate Backend Software Architects to join the Fulfillment Optimization team. This team builds the platforms that determine how customer orders are fulfilled, optimizing for Wayfair profitability and customer delight. A big part of our work revolves around enhancing and scaling customer-facing platforms that provide fulfillment information on our websites, starting at the top of the customer funnel on the search pages all the way through orders being delivered. Throughout this customer journey, we are responsible for maintaining an accurate representation of our dynamic supply chain, determining how different products will fit into boxes, predicting how these boxes will flow through warehouses and trucks, and ultimately surfacing the information our customers need to inform their decision and the details our suppliers and carriers require to successfully execute on the promises made to our customers. We do all of this in milliseconds, thousands of times per second.

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What You’ll Do :

• Partner with your business stakeholders to provide them with transparency, data, and resources to make informed decisions
• Be a technical leader within and across the teams you work with.
• 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.
• Tenacity for learning - curious, and constantly pushing the boundary of what is possible.
• 12 + years of experience in engineering, with a preference for candidates with a mix of start-up and large-company experience .
• eComm domain expertise is a bonus.
• Should have experience working in Large scale distributed system
• Should have mentored 10-12 people.
• Hands-on experience driving software transformations within high-growth environments at scale .
• Mastery in cross-functional consensus building and influencing without given authority.
• Experienced in architecting and building large-scale, cloud-based, and event-driven systems across various projects.
• Successful background in designing production systems at scale including fault tolerance, reliability, performance, and security.
• Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience driving teams forward and ability to influence results

Technology Requirements

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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