Salary Range: $120,000 - $130,000 per year
Note: This is an ongoing role that we hire for regularly, so some postings may appear to have been open for a while. If you see this job posted, we are actively hiring and encourage you to apply.
This is a Toronto based opportunity with a 3 day in office expectation (Tuesday - Thursday) with 2 days remote (Monday and Friday).
Wayfair is continuing to expand our commitment to hiring and supporting talent early in their careers, focusing on filling opportunities with recent graduates who have 0-3 years of work experience. We are continually recruiting candidates for this position on a rolling basis as we have a high volume of openings that become available.
Who We Are
Wayfair is on a mission to find the most talented engineers entering the tech world! Do you love innovating and creating new tools from scratch? We’re looking for engineers who love
Wayfair is looking for candidates who are passionate about programming, and have strong core fundamentals. If you feel confident in your knowledge of object oriented design, data structures, & algorithms and your ability to grow your skills over time, please apply! We want to connect with developers who are eager to work in a highly collaborative team and add to Wayfair’s culture. You will have the opportunity to work on one of the following teams: sharing ideas, collaborating to improve them, and being a part of the full software development process. Our engineers are enthusiastic problem solvers and our teams are highly collaborative.
We are also starting a new program for L1 Software Engineers. As part of Wayfair’s Accelerated Onboarding Program, you’ll begin your engineering journey alongside a cohort of peers, building core technical and problem-solving skills through collaborative learning and meaningful work. With guidance from your manager, mentorship from a dedicated Tech Coach, clear development milestones, and exposure to applied AI tools, you’ll grow your technical judgment and independence while building the confidence to make an impact on your team.
What You’ll Do
- Support designing and perform hands-on building of applications that are reliable, scalable and easy to maintain
- Ensure that engineering quality standards are met within your team
- Contribute to architectural and code review discussions that impact our engineering ecosystem
- Collaborate with leads and engineers on your team to solve a wide variety of business and technical problems
- Ensure our systems are properly documented
- Contribute to the growth and development of the Wayfair engineering organization
What You’ll Need
Basic Qualifications
- 0-3 years of transferable experience in a corporate environment, including internship and co-op experience.
- Bachelor's degree.
- 1-3 years of transferable software development experience (full stack and/or mobile development) in a corporate environment, including internship and co-op experience
- Bachelors in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or another related technical discipline
- Knowledge and experience working with object oriented programming languages
- Experience or exposure to SQL, Java, and Python
Preferred Qualifications
- Excellent team player with a passion for collaboration
- Familiarity with creating software tools and functionality, debugging code, and successfully incorporating feedback into your work
- Strong skills in solving complex problems with simple abstract solutions
- An interest in working with big data and machine learning
- Experience with using cloud platforms to solve problems
- Experience working in agile environments
- Strong communication skills and the ability to take on projects or tool autonomously
Possible Team Placements
Global Supplier Tech: Wayfair sells millions of products and this team owns all the data, tools, and systems that create and manage the content on the site related to each product. We build tools for our thousands of suppliers to send us content we need to be able to sell their products on site. This team makes sure the customer has the information they need to be confident when purchasing for their home. Within Catalog, there are also teams such as pricing & competitive intelligence engineering, merchandising & media engineering, and virtual media.
Platforms Tech: Responsible for the entire Wayfair website and all backend components that fuels and powers production. You can be an embedded engineer or a platform engineer. Embedded engineers work directly with engineering verticals to build and consult in building new initiatives. Platform engineers are subject matter experts for languages and engineering tools. You can expect to work with engineers that thrive in collaboration and expertise in one of Wayfair’s supported languages or frameworks including Java, .NET, Python, PHP, Backstage, Buildkite, or SonarQube. You can expect to work with engineers that thrive in collaboration and expertise in one of Wayfair’s supported languages (Java, .NET, Python, PHP, Javascript, with some Golang and Rust) and frameworks (Backstage, Buildkite, SonarQube, Puppet, Terraform and others).
Customer Tech: Customer Tech owns the end-to-end shopping journey for our customers across web and native apps, from search and browse through add-to-cart. As an engineer here, you might work on Storefront experiences or SMART (Search & Recommendations) systems, building high-scale services and UIs that help customers discover products, compare options, and feel confident hitting “Place Order.”.
Supply Chain Retail Tech: Develops the complex, ground-breaking logistics system to help move the products Wayfair sells from suppliers to warehouses to customers. Supply Chain is responsible for international transportation, warehouse management, and the customer delivery network making it all possible.
Why You’ll Love Wayfair
Benefits & Perks
- In addition to provincial healthcare, Wayfair offers Canadian employees additional extended health care through Desjardins.
- Global Traveler Health Insurance through GeoBlue.
- 24/7 access to mental, financial, physical and emotional wellbeing support, plus an enhanced offering of therapy and coaching.
- Automatic enrollment into Basic Life and Accidental Death & Disability Insurance.
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan with day one vesting.
- Paid Parental Leave and Surrogacy & Adoption Reimbursement.
- Tuition Reimbursement.
- Personalized financial planning through LearnLux.
- Wayfair Employee Discount.
- Gym/Fitness Discounts (including Peloton, GoodLife Global ClassPass).
- Exclusive access to thousands of perks & discounts through Perkopolis and BenefitHub.
- Yearly match up to $500 for personal donations made by employees to registered 501(c)(3) nonprofits.
Purpose & Inclusion At Wayfair
At Wayfair, we pride ourselves on fostering an environment where every individual experiences a fair and equitable employee journey. We are committed to developing targeted resources that raise awareness around inclusion and eliminate barriers, ensuring Wayfair provides a fair and inclusive workplace experience for everyone.
Social Impact & Responsibility
At Wayfair, we focus on helping people on their journey to home - specifically those who have lost their way from home. We do this by leveraging our best assets, such as collaborating with leading nonprofit organizations, coordinating in-kind product donations, empowering our employees to get involved through paid volunteer time off programs, and encouraging our customers to donate. This multi-faceted approach allows us to support communities in need in authentic ways that align with Wayfair's broader mission of helping everyone, anywhere create their sense of home.
Assistance For Individuals With Disabilities
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.
Your personal data is processed in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Notice (https://www.wayfair.com/careers/privacy). If you have any questions or wish to exercise your rights under applicable privacy and data protection laws, please contact us at dataprotectionofficer@wayfair.com.
The above base pay range may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills and experience. For internal candidates, compensation determinations will be made based on your current position / level, your location, and the new position according to Wayfair's internal mobility policy. As you move through the internal interview process, your recruiter will be able to provide additional details regarding your specific compensation. Please note, the terms of internal offers, including the salary offered, are not negotiable.
