Software Engineer

Software Engineer (f/m/x)

Locations: Berlin, Germany

Job description

At Wayfair, we love solving complex business problems with technology to serve our millions of customers, to sell and deliver a catalog of millions of products, and to continue growing at a rapid pace – a journey enabled by more than 3000 Wayfair engineers.

The Wayfair Fulfillment and Delivery Network team is responsible for the systems powering dozens of warehouses across multiple countries and continents. Our systems are processing the inbound, storage, and shipping of millions of boxes per month.

We are looking for a passionate engineer who loves to solve complex problems, learns fast, and shares knowledge to join our team in Berlin and help us build and optimize the systems responsible for shipping more than 1MM boxes every month across our global network of warehouses.

Our tech stack revolves around Java, PHP, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, MSSQL, Postgres, and Kafka.

If you love to solve real business problems at scale, in a fast-paced, high growth and agile environment, this is the role for you.

Your role at Wayfair

• Working in a highly collaborative environment interacting closely with other software engineers, product managers, designers, and operations to identify opportunities and implement solutions
• Design and build extensible and scalable services that adhere to domain boundaries, with strong adherence to APIs, clear and enforced data ownership, and well-defined, visible SLIs and SLOs
• 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
• Continuously rethink and reevaluate the status quo, even when it argues with your/our past ideas

What you bring to the table

• 3+ years of professional software development experience, experience in architecting and building large-scale, cloud-based, and event-driven systems
• Experience with Java or other OOP language - like C#, along with an interest in transitioning to Java
• Deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms
• Experience implementing both asynchronous message-based communication and synchronous ones such as RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of CI/CD processes for build and deployment of various applications
• Great communication skills and the ability to support technical decision making with the team
• A track record of delivering in increments and learning as you go

And finally, our proposition to you!

• Highly competitive compensation packages 
• Medical insurance & pension plan
• Commuting schemes 
• Extensive internal training platform
• Health & Sport memberships
• Caregiving benefits
• Wellbeing Program for our employees and their families
• Variety of time off and leave program options 
• Employee discount for Wayfair purchases
• A vast community of ERGs supporting our employees and making Wayfair an inclusive space for us all

About Wayfair

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, or genetic information.