Software Engineer III

Job Description

Who We Are

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 4,000 Wayfair engineers.

The Fulfillment Optimization team builds the platforms that determine how customer orders are fulfilled, optimizing for Wayfair profitability and customer delight. A big part of our work revolves around enhancing and scaling customer-facing platforms that provide fulfillment information on our websites, starting at the top of the customer funnel on the search pages all the way through orders being delivered. Throughout this customer journey, we are responsible for maintaining an accurate representation of our dynamic supply chain, determining how different products will fit into boxes, predicting how these boxes will flow through warehouses and trucks, and ultimately surfacing the information our customers need to inform their decision and the details our suppliers and carriers require to successfully execute on the promises made to our customers. We do all of this in milliseconds, thousands of times per second.

In this role you will be working with individuals inside and outside your immediate team to build features for our fulfillment optimization platform to provide fulfillment information to Wayfair. The individual will need to collaborate with multiple teams to build complex system interactions and integrations. As part of our team, you will be solving complex problems that have a direct impact on our supply chain operations and end-customers.

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.

What You'll Do

• Build scalable web services (or features) in our fulfillment optimization platform that powers fulfillment information to our Wayfair customers.
• Drive high impact architectural decisions and hands-on development, including inception, design, execution, and delivery following good design and coding practices.
• Partner with cross functional stakeholder teams to build complex system integrations and interactions.
• Be a technical leader within and across the teams you work with.
• 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.
• Tenacity for learning - curious, and constantly pushing the boundary of what is possible.
• Help grow other engineers technically by mentoring, pairing, and developing other opportunities for education.
• Be recognized as a credible technical subject matter expert for the team’s focus area and beyond.

What You Need

• Excellent design and architectural skills with strong fundamentals in system design, data structures and algorithms (4+ years or equivalent track-record).
• Experience building data driven applications and event driven architectures. 
• Experience building web services with C#.
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server, Aerospike, Redis.
• Experience designing solutions leveraging distributed infrastructure (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, etc).
• Experience leveraging monitoring and logging technologies (e.g. DataDog, Grafana, Kibana, etc).
• Experience with Continuous Integration (CI/CD) practices and tools (Buildkite, Jenkins, etc).
• Capability to collaborate with cross functional teams in a dynamic fast paced environment with an inclusive, adaptable and persuasive communication style.
• Result oriented mindset who appreciates and strives to add value and impact.
• Analytical and creative mindset and passion for solving business problems with technology.
• Ability to quickly translate business requirements into working features.
• Effective communication skills.

What You Get 

• Extensive career and growth opportunities in a fast-growing technology & retail powerhouse.
• Training & development, including world-class mentoring and tuition reimbursement for education relevant to your career.
• Subsidized gym membership, free yoga classes and wellness weeks.
• Subsidized public transport subscription.
• Discounts on Wayfair sites for employee purchases.
• Participation in conferences & meetups we organize and sponsor.
• Access to subsidized child care resources.

Location: This is a Hybrid role based out of Boston. The Tech organization is to be in the office three days a week (Tuesday - Thursday).