Software Engineer II, Backend Platforms

At Wayfair, we are well on the way to becoming the world’s number one, online destination for all things home. Our core belief is that everyone should live in a home they love. We make this possible by ensuring our 24 million customers have all the technology and innovation they need at their fingertips, to give them access to our more than 33 million products which are provided by our 23,000 awesome global suppliers. In the Storefront team, we are the first impression of a customer’s shopping experience; we own the design and implementation of the customer-facing website. We partner with Product, Experience Design, Analytics and business leaders across Wayfair; our Storefront Engineering teams ensure that we’re building technology that solves important customer problems in elegant, scalable, measurable ways.

The Storefront Backend Platform team is responsible for building, maintaining, and supporting the core infrastructure and architecture that Storefront teams use to develop and deploy backend services. While Wayfair continues our technical transformation journey the SF BE Plat team is also out in front doing exploratory work, partnering with the central Infrastructure teams, and crafting service platform norms, tools, and patterns.

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!

What You Will Do

• Flex your strength and knowledge on Go, Java, DevOps, and service development environments.
• Contribute to developing platforms services that are built to industry best practices, including observability, architectural patterns, and reliability
• Write code to implement high-quality, scalable, future-proof services that will have effective system boundaries
• Participate in team planning and delivery meetings in a way that actively supports the goals and success of the team
• Identify risks and gaps in your assigned work and surface them to team leads
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and peers to define project requirements and execution plans

• 3+ 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
• Hands-on experience delivering software within high-growth environments at scale
• Experienced in designing and building large-scale, cloud-based systems across various projects
• Experience operating distributed services at scale, including familiarity with observability tools, logging techniques, troubleshooting, and incident response.
• Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience driving solutions forward and ability to influence results
• Expertise with one or more modern programming language (such as Python, Java, C#, Scala, GO, or others).
• Experience with one or more common open source platforms, tools and framework, eg: Kafka, Kubernetes, Containerization, Java microservices, GraphQL APIs, Aerospike etc
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Experience with Cloud Services and Containerized Infrastructure
• Experience with devOps and CI/CD systems and best practices
• Experience with various automated testing and deployment approaches and tools
• Knowledgeable of microservice architecture and event driven design patterns
• Technical documentation experience

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 let us know by completing our Accomodations for Applicants form.

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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 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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