Software Engineer II

We are starting a strategic technology delivery center in Bengaluru to help us realize our growth ambitions. We are assembling the initial leadership team that will scale the center, and are looking for world class leaders to join and leave a lasting legacy. 

As a founding member of the team, you will partner with our global technology and business leaders to build the technology platform to support our growth plans to $50B USD and beyond. You will flex your leadership, organizational and talent development skills to assemble a multidisciplinary team that delivers global impact. You will establish the site and engineering culture, hire and mentor, build new platforms, and grow your career.

The teams you build in the Bengaluru delivery 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 Wayfair’s greenfield Omni Supply Chain Platform to scale our innovative, large parcel network that serves our vast marketplace.  While this is a massive mission in itself, you will work as a Senior Staff Engineer with high standards of excellence, a strong sense of sound software design concepts, and the capacity to be a role model through focused production of high-quality code and software designs.

What You Will Do:

• Serve as the local technical lead in the critical domain, designing & building a platform that interfaces with many different systems within and outside Wayfair and partner globally.
• Play a key role in developing and driving a multi-year technology strategy for Wayfair's Supply Chain.
• Architect and write code to implement high-quality, scalable, future-proof services that will have effective system boundaries and will support long-term vision & strategy.
• Conduct technical debate across an entire platform and help come to durable documented conclusions.
• Drive high-impact architectural solutions  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 the department's technical vision.
• Influence and contribute to the department's strategy and roadmap.
• Support the  growth of other engineers technically by mentoring, pairing, and developing other opportunities for education.
• Be externally recognized as a collaborative and credible subject matter expert for the broader team’s focus area.
• Be a founding member of Wayfair’s Bengaluru site, setting the tone and engineering expectations for a world class center.

What you bring to the table

• 5+ years of experience in engineering, with a preference for candidates with a mix of start-up and large-company experience.
• Supply Chain domain expertise is a bonus.
• Hands-on experience driving software transformations within high-growth environments at scale.
• Experienced in architecting and building large-scale, cloud-based, and event-driven systems across various projects.
• Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience driving teams forward and ability to influence results.

Technology Requirements

• GCP target cloud platform, experience with AWS/Azure at scale.
• Distributed microservice architectures with well architected domain boundaries.
• High volume async messaging architectures.
• Large scale relational and NoSQL style data stores.
• Common open source platforms, tools and framework, eg: Kafka, Kubernetes, Containerization, Java microservices, GraphQL, Spring, etc.