Job Description
Wayfair is one of the world's largest destinations for the home, as the company shares and celebrates progress across environmental, social, and governance topics. Wayfair is the destination for all things home: helping everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home. From expert customer service to the development of tools that make the shopping process easier, to carry one of the widest and deepest selections of items for every space, style, and budget, Wayfair gives everyone the power to create spaces that are just right for them.
We deliver a best-in-class customer experience in the furniture and home space. To maintain our high level of delivery standards and meet our customer's needs, the Wayfair dedicated operations team plays a key role in improving customer satisfaction and driving repeat business. We've been busy building a best-in-class logistics network that allows us to delight customers by speeding up deliveries, adding services, and reducing damage using our physical asset-based warehouses.
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 Backend Engineer encompassing an Engineering excellence mindset, taking the lead in your team through technical responsibilities like designing scalable architectures, solving the most complex problems and being a mentor and helping the team through a volatile and ever changing environment!
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for designing and being hands-on in building web-based, event driven, cloud enabled applications that are reliable, scalable and easy to maintain;
• Ensure the quality of engineering direction across multiple teams within the organization
• Contribute to architectural and code review discussions that impact our engineering ecosystem
• Define standards to raise the bar of the teams you'll be working with
• Mentor less experienced software engineers
• Collaborate with leads and engineers across multiple teams to solve a wide variety of business and technical problems
• Ensure our systems are properly documented
• Contribute to the growth and development of the Wayfair engineering scene within Bengaluru and beyond.
Requirements:
• Excellent team player with a passion for collaboration
• 5+ years of object-oriented software development experience - preferably using Java, Spring Boot, React, Kubernetes, GCP (or any cloud), Kafka, and MSSQL
• Vast experience working with relational and NoSQL databases and event-driven architectures
• Great skills in solving complex problems with simple abstract solutions
• Knowledge of web development technologies and distributed systems
• Experience with SOA and microservices
• Good understanding of how to use cloud platforms to solve problems, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Experience working in agile environments
• Interest in being challenged in a fast-paced environment while having fun
• Analytical and creative mindset, with a passion for solving business problems with technology
• Ability to quickly translate business requirements into working features
• Ability to describe complex problems in an understandable way tailored to diverse audiences
• High proficiency in oral and written English
Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities
Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact candidateaccommodations@wayfair.com.
Need Assistance?
For more information about applying for a career at Wayfair, visit our FAQ page here.
About Wayfair Inc.
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, ****** orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.
We are interested in retaining your data for a period of 12 months to consider you for suitable positions within Wayfair. Your personal data is processed in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Notice (which can found here: https://www.wayfair.com/careers/privacy). If you have any questions regarding our processing of your personal data, please contact us at dataprotectionofficer@wayfair.com. If you would rather not have us retain your data please contact us anytime at dataprotectionofficer@wayfair.com
We deliver a best-in-class customer experience in the furniture and home space. To maintain our high level of delivery standards and meet our customer's needs, the Wayfair dedicated operations team plays a key role in improving customer satisfaction and driving repeat business. We've been busy building a best-in-class logistics network that allows us to delight customers by speeding up deliveries, adding services, and reducing damage using our physical asset-based warehouses.
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 Backend Engineer encompassing an Engineering excellence mindset, taking the lead in your team through technical responsibilities like designing scalable architectures, solving the most complex problems and being a mentor and helping the team through a volatile and ever changing environment!
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for designing and being hands-on in building web-based, event driven, cloud enabled applications that are reliable, scalable and easy to maintain;
• Ensure the quality of engineering direction across multiple teams within the organization
• Contribute to architectural and code review discussions that impact our engineering ecosystem
• Define standards to raise the bar of the teams you'll be working with
• Mentor less experienced software engineers
• Collaborate with leads and engineers across multiple teams to solve a wide variety of business and technical problems
• Ensure our systems are properly documented
• Contribute to the growth and development of the Wayfair engineering scene within Bengaluru and beyond.
Requirements:
• Excellent team player with a passion for collaboration
• 5+ years of object-oriented software development experience - preferably using Java, Spring Boot, React, Kubernetes, GCP (or any cloud), Kafka, and MSSQL
• Vast experience working with relational and NoSQL databases and event-driven architectures
• Great skills in solving complex problems with simple abstract solutions
• Knowledge of web development technologies and distributed systems
• Experience with SOA and microservices
• Good understanding of how to use cloud platforms to solve problems, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Experience working in agile environments
• Interest in being challenged in a fast-paced environment while having fun
• Analytical and creative mindset, with a passion for solving business problems with technology
• Ability to quickly translate business requirements into working features
• Ability to describe complex problems in an understandable way tailored to diverse audiences
• High proficiency in oral and written English
Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities
Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact candidateaccommodations@wayfair.com.
Need Assistance?
For more information about applying for a career at Wayfair, visit our FAQ page here.
About Wayfair Inc.
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, ****** orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.
We are interested in retaining your data for a period of 12 months to consider you for suitable positions within Wayfair. Your personal data is processed in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Notice (which can found here: https://www.wayfair.com/careers/privacy). If you have any questions regarding our processing of your personal data, please contact us at dataprotectionofficer@wayfair.com. If you would rather not have us retain your data please contact us anytime at dataprotectionofficer@wayfair.com
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Software Engineer position is now open for candidates interested in the Software Developer Jobs sector. This role in Bengaluru offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Software Developer Jobs is a plus.
