Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Bangalore, India and will be expected to comply with their team's hybrid work schedule requirements.

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. 

We are looking for a passionate Backend Software Engineer to join the Fulfilment Optimisation team. This 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 Fulfilment 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.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable, and efficient backend services and APIs using ReactJs & Java, ensuring high performance and responsiveness for millions of users.
• Develop and optimize database queries, schema designs, and data models to support complex, large-scale applications.
• Write thoughtful, scalable, reusable, well tested and performant frontend code using frameworks such as React and Next
• Work closely with Product Managers, UX/UI Designers, and other stakeholders to define and implement technical solutions that meet business requirements.
• Write clean, scalable, and well-tested code, ensuring systems are resilient, secure, and maintainable.

• Stay current with industry best practices and emerging technologies in full stack development, and actively contribute to improving the architecture and development processes.
• Lead and mentor junior developers, conduct code reviews, and help establish best practices in software engineering across the team.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve complex issues, ensuring the stability and reliability of the systems.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the development process, including the implementation of CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.

What you bring to the table:

1. Responsible for designing and being hands-on in building web-based, event driven, cloud enabled applications that are reliable, scalable and easy to maintain;
2. Ensure the quality of engineering direction across multiple teams 
3. Contribute to architectural and code review discussions that impact our engineering ecosystem
4. Define standards to raise the bar of the teams you'll be working with.
5. Mentor less experienced software engineers
6. Collaborate with leads and engineers across multiple teams to solve a wide variety of business and technical problems.
7. Contribute to the growth and development of the Wayfair engineering scene within Bengaluru and beyond. 

We Are a Match Because You Have:

• 6+ years experience in Software Engineering with designing and building large scale platforms as a Full-Stack Developer with Frontend heavy. 
• Experience leading/supervising and/or mentoring engineers, leading code reviews, and establishing best engineering practices.
• Passion for leading cross functional projects through collaboration and influencing design decisions.
• Professional experience coding JavaScript, CSS, and HTML from scratch as well as a familiarity with modern client-side frameworks (React and Next, Styled Components, SASS, etc)

• A solid understanding of JavaScript state management libraries, such as Redux, MobX, or Apollo
• Experience in e-commerce advertising, including ad targeting, campaign management, performance tracking, and integration with advertising platforms.
• Good understanding of modern programming languages such as Java.
• Desired, but not required, you know responsive design principles to allow web pages to adapt to different screen sizes and devices, making them accessible to a wider audience, cross-browser compatibility is a plus
• Proficient in testing and debugging techniques to identify and fix issues in their code
• A passion for UI, UX, and Design Systems and working with designers to create engaging and intuitive experiences across devices
• Experience in working with product managers and designers to define, break down, and collaborate on feature work
• Good understanding of cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• A genuine believer in constructive and respectful code reviews, retros, and collaborative problem-solving as the bedrock of a healthy team
• Great communication skills and the ability to support technical decision making with the team.

About Wayfair Inc.

Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. 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, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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