Software Engineer-II

Company Overview:

Wayfair is one of the world's largest online destinations for home furnishings and décor. We believe that everyone should live in a home they love, and that our team should be a reflection of the incredibly diverse customers we serve. Our team of engineers, designers, data scientists, and business professionals work together to create innovative solutions that enhance the home shopping experience for our customers.

Bengaluru is home to our brand new, strategic technology delivery center and will be critical to achieving our future growth plans. We are looking for best in class Engineers to come in and help scale our technical products and teams alike as we continue on our path to be the world’s number one online destination for the home.

As one of the early member of the team here in our strategic technology delivery center, you will partner closely with our technology and business leaders from around the world to help build the platform to support our growth plans to $50B USD and beyond in the next 3 to 5 years.

Position Overview:

This position is for one of the first engineers to be hired for Fintech & Loyalty (F&L) at the Bengaluru centre. F&L powers all of Wayfair’s payment services, gift-cards, rewards, co-branded credit cards and Fraud detection & prevention. It’s a revenue driver for Wayfair and hence has a long runway.

Responsibilities:

• Build high quality technical systems that are scalable, performant using the latest modern Cloud technology
• Implement and advocate for engineering best practices, helping level up the engineers inside and outside your team
• Demonstrate the drive to improve the team at every step - leveling up your or the team's knowledge, making process improvements, or rearchitecting our platform for the next level of scale
• Lead technical debate and decision making ensuring no-regret decisions with appreciation for trade-offs
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to other team members
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners and partner teams effectively
• Ensure the reliability, performance, and security of our systems
• Continuously learn and stay up-to-date with new technologies and industry trends

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• At least 7 years of experience in software development, with a focus on back-end systems
• Deep understanding of modern programming languages such as Java, Python, PHP, C#, Go, Scala, or similar languages.
• Experience leading and/or mentoring engineers, leading code reviews and establishing best engineering practices.
• Experience making system design decisions and building scalable systems
• Experience with databases and SQL
• Experience building scalable and maintainable software systems, with a deep understanding of software architecture and design patterns
• Experience developing micro-services 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.

This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing organisation and have a significant impact on the growth and success of Wayfair's fintech & loyalty programs. If you are passionate about software engineering and want to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, we would love to hear from you.