Software Engineer III

Job Description

Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Bangalore 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.

The Global Supplier technology team is responsible for building the scalable platforms for the supplier ecosystem in Wayfair. It starts with establishment of supplier entities, their catalog journey, advertisement, pricing & order management. This platform provides all necessary accelerants for supplier business growth like supplier ads, business insights & recommendations. We build scalable platforms to meet the demands of customers and suppliers alike.

The teams you build in the Bengaluru technology center will work across multiple domains that drive speed and convenience for the customer and cost efficiency across the full value chain. Our work requires us to move fast and collaborate with some of the most talented engineers, creatives, product managers, data scientists, operators, and analysts to discover, build, and scale world-class software products.

The initial focus for the site will be to build various supplier platform initiatives cross catalog, pricing and data science to serve our vast marketplace. You will play a pivotal role in building the site including hiring, setting up the culture and establishing right ownership for the teams.

What You’ll Do:

• Work cross-functionally with different roles and teams, such as product management, core areas of the business, and other engineering teams to understand the problems we need to solve, and solution against them in a globally distributed environment.
• Own the entire platform's architecture and help make decisions to drive the technology platform and roadmap for the team to ensure current and future scalability and performance -you'll be helping us solve some complex architectural problems!
• Implement and advocate for engineering best practices, helping level up the engineers inside and outside your team
• Demonstrate the drive to improve the team at every step, whether it's leveling up your or the team's knowledge, making process improvements, or rearchitecting our platform for the next level of scale
• Lead technical debate and decision making ensuring no-regret decisions with appreciation for trade-offs
• Nurture collaborative ways of working that grow the team, its members and the product: testing practices, TDD, pairing/mobbing, continuous deployment, domain-driven design

What You’ll Need:

• 6+ years experience in Software Engineering with designing and building large scale platforms.
• Experience leading/supervising and/or mentoring engineers, leading code reviews, and establishing best engineering practices.
• Passion for leading cross functional projects through collaboration and influencing design decisions.
• Deep understanding of modern programming languages such as Java, Python, PHP, C#, Go,Scala, or similar languages.
• Ability to develop creative solutions with customer experience and scalability on top of mind.
• Experience developing microservices in highly available and large scale distributed systems.
• Experience deploying solutions into production within GCP, AWS, Azure or similar cloud platforms
• Experience in developing and deploying services/applications in Kubernetes (K8s)
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders alike