About the position
Wayfair Sponsored Products (WSP) is our flagship, native, pay-per-click advertising platform currently available on Wayfair US, Wayfair CA, Wayfair Professional, and Wayfair DE/UK that allows suppliers to boost the exposure of their products. The Sponsored Product Engineering team is tasked with presenting Wayfair Sponsored Products on our storefront web application, utilizing marketing campaigns provided by Wayfair suppliers. This involves several steps, such as selecting eligible products based on context, conducting an auction process to determine a winning set of products and their placements, all aimed at ensuring a seamless and exceptional customer experience. These tasks are accomplished through cutting-edge technology stack on the Google Cloud Platform, including GraphQL, Apollo Federation, Block Builder, React for frontend development, and Java-based microservices deployed on GKE using the Spring Boot framework. We're also seeking to expand our presence on other storefronts and brands. If you're interested in joining a dynamic engineering team that thrives on innovation and scaling to meet increased customer demand, we'd love to hear from you.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Hone your technical leadership skills as you help grow engineers on your team to develop the next generation of Wayfair engineering
- Provide high quality reviews, for both code and technical designs
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience architecting highly complex, interconnected systems that solved complex business problems
- 8+ years of experience in backend software engineering using object oriented language and preferably Java
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Track-record of technical leadership for teams following software development best practices (e.g. SOLID, TDD, GRASP, YAGNI, etc.)
- Track-record of being a hands-on developer efficiently building technically sound systems
- Experience building web services with .NET Core and C#
- Experience with Continuous Integration (CI/CD) practices and tools (Buildkite, Jenkins, etc.)
- Experience architecting solutions leveraging distributed infrastructure (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Experience with Microsoft SQL Server, Aerospike, Redis
- Experience leveraging monitoring and logging technologies (e.g. DataDog, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, etc.)
Benefits
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Full Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA/FSA)
- Life Insurance
- Disability Protection (Short Term & Long Term Disability)
- Gym/Fitness discounts (including US Peloton, Global ClassPass, and various regional gym memberships)
- Mental Health Support (Global Mental Health, Global Wayhealthy Recordings)
- Caregiver Services
- 401K Matching (Employee Matching Program)
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Financial Health Education (Knowledge of Financial Education - KOFE)
- Tax Advantaged Accounts
- Family Planning Support
- Parental Leave
- Global Surrogacy & Adoption Policy
- Rewards & Recognition
- Global Employee Anniversary Awards
- Paid Volunteer Work
- Employee Discount
- U.S. Bluebikes Membership
- Global Pod Outings
- Emphasizing a supportive & flexible work environment that encourages a balance between personal and professional commitments
