Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Bangalore, India and will be expected to comply with their team's hybrid work schedule requirements.
Who We Are
Wayfair is on a path to be the world’s largest online destination for the home. We are the largest tech first platform in the home category. Our marketplace offers over 30 million products from 23,000 suppliers and we served 23 million customers in 2024 alone.
Wayfair is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and the Wayfair Advertising team owns features that form the core of our onsite advertising business. We ensure that millions of ads served are relevant to our customers by enabling advertisers and agencies to connect with the right customers at the right time with the right products. 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.
We are looking for outstanding candidates to join us as full time Architect. Successful candidates will have to solve complex and broad business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices, building solutions that are scaled and performed. You will also have a focus on the customer experience, great teamwork and communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.
Interested in learning more about Wayfair’s Engineering community?
- Check out our Wayfair Tech Blog: https://www.aboutwayfair.com/careers/techblog.
- Brijesh Sharma is the Associate Director for Supplier Advertising Engineering
- Ravitej Sriram is the Director of Product leading Supplier Advertising
What You’ll Do:
- 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.
We Are a Match Because You Have:
- 12+ years experience in Software Engineering with designing and building large scale platforms.
- Possess extensive experience in full stack development, with a primary emphasis on backend technologies. They should also have the capability to contribute to frontend development when necessary.
- Have hands-on experience in the e-commerce advertising domain. They should be familiar with the unique challenges and requirements of building and optimizing advertising solutions in an e-commerce environment, including ad targeting, campaign management, performance tracking, and integrating with various advertising 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,
- Have experience in JavaScript and its libraries, especially React.
- 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
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 Berlin, 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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What We Do
Wayfair is the destination for all things home: helping everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home. From expert customer service, to the development of tools that make the shopping process easier, to carrying one of the widest and deepest selections of items for every space, style, and budget, Wayfair gives everyone the power to create spaces that are just right for them.
