Software Engineer II, Supplier Advertising

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

Who We Are

At Wayfair, we harness the power of technology innovation to connect suppliers with our extensive customer base. The advertising platform is an integral part of our mission. Operating on a vast selection of sponsored items of decor, home improvement, housewares, and more, our platform ensures that suppliers can showcase their offerings to the extended audience, enhancing visibility and driving sales. Wayfair is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.

Wayfair Advertising team owns supplier experience, backend systems, attribution and reporting that form the core of our onsite and offsite advertising business. These tasks are accomplished through cutting-edge technology stack on the Google Cloud Platform, including and Java-based microservices using the Spring Boot framework, GraphQL, and React for frontend development. 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.

You will lead an Agile team at our development center in Toronto, Canada that drives the business, technology, and operations of the Sponsored Experience. This system is integral to the Supplier Advertising Experience platform. You will oversee all stages of the process, from conceptualization and business analysis to technical design and software development, utilizing a range of fullstack technologies.

Interested in learning more about Wayfair’s Engineering community?

• Check out our Wayfair Tech Blog: https://www.aboutwayfair.com/careers/techblog.
• Marina Berdichevsky leads our Sponsored Experience Engineering team
• Jacky Chan is the Advertising Experience Engineering Manager
  
  

What You’ll Do

• Produce high quality, enterprise grade experiences to delight customers
• Use Java to design API to consume/produce data and build backend applications to power Wayfair Supplier Advertising platforms.
• Use React to design and build frontend applications powering supplier experience
• Provide superior monitoring visibility to technical and operational health of the platform using DataDog
• 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
• Use ecommerce business knowledge to convert the product requirements into a technical solution.
  
  

We Are a Match Because You Have

• 5+ years of experience as a fullstack engineer
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experienced in Java and React. Nice to have: Python, JavaScript.
• Experience in development and technical design of frontend and backend applications from start to finish
• Experience and deep understanding of atomic design (reusable components)
• Deep understanding of functional programming and JavaScript best practices
• Experience with Cloud Native architecture platforms like Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure.
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases
• Experience working with event-driven architectures, DDD, and TDD
• Experience and desire to work in an agile environment
• Analytical mindset and passion for solving business problems with technology
• Experience in Big Data technologies like Apache Kafka/Apache spark/Nosql databases
• Preferred experience in the CI/CD tools/platforms like Buildkite/Docker/Kubernetes.
• Experience in system monitoring using tools like DataDog etc.
  
  

We look forward to receiving your application!

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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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