Software Engineering Manager - Supply Chain Retail Tech

Supply Chain Retail Technology

Who We Are:

Wayfair runs the largest custom e-commerce large parcel network in the United States, approximately 1.6 million square meters of logistics space. The nature of the network is inherently a highly variable ecosystem that requires flexible, reliable, and resilient systems to operate efficiently. 

 What You’ll Do:

• Play a key role in developing and driving a multi-year technology strategy for a complex platform. 
• Lead multiple software development teams - architecting solutions at scale to empower the business and owning all aspects of the SDLC: design, build, deliver, and maintain.
• Directly and indirectly manage several software engineers by providing coaching, guidance, and mentorship to grow the team as well as individuals.
• Inspire, coach, mentor, and support your team members in their day to day work and their long term professional growth.
• Attract, onboard, develop and retain diverse top talents, while fostering an inclusive and collaborative team and culture (our latest DEI Report)
• Lead your team and peers by example. As a senior member of the team your methodologies, technical and operational excellence practices, and system designs will help to continuously improve our domain.
• Identify, propose, and drive initiatives to advance the technical skills, standards, practices, architecture, and documentation of our engineering teams.
• Facilitate technical debate and decision making with an appreciation for trade-offs
• Continuously rethink and push the status quo, even when it challenges your/our established  ideas.

What You’ll Need:

• Results-oriented, collaborative, pragmatic, and continuous improvement mindset
• Hands-on experience driving release engineering within high-growth environments, previous platform experience is required.
• Good understanding of modern deployment methodologies including progressive, green/blue, etc.
• Experience working with containers, container orchestration and deploy automation
• 12+ years of experience in engineering, out of which at least 5-6 years spent in leading
  highly performant teams .
• Experience making architectural and design-related decisions for large scale platforms,
  understanding the tradeoffs between time-to-market vs. flexibility.
• Significant experience and vocation in managing and enabling people’s growth and performance. 
• Experience designing and building high-scale generalizable products with outstanding user experience. Practical experience in hiring and developing engineering teams and culture and leading interdisciplinary teams in a fast-paced agile environment.
• Capability to communicate and collaborate across the wider organization, influencing decisions with and without direct authority and always with inclusive, adaptable, and persuasive communication.
• Analytical and decision-making skills that integrate technical and business requirements