At Wayfair, the Storefront team is responsible for the customer-facing website, which is the first impression for customers. They need to build technology that solves important customer problems in elegant, scalable, and measurable ways. The Site Services teams within this domain are tasked with building new capabilities and rearchitecting/migrating existing functionality and data as part of an overall technology transformation effort to support Wayfair's growth and online destination for home goods.
Requirements
- Java experience preferred.
- Experience with one or more common open source platforms, tools and framework, eg: Kafka, Kubernetes, Containerization, Java microservices, GraphQL APIs, Aerospike etc
- Hands-on experience delivering software within high-growth environments at scale
- Experienced in designing and building large-scale, cloud-based systems across various projects
- Experience operating distributed services at scale, including familiarity with observability tools, logging techniques, troubleshooting, and incident response.
- Expertise with a modern programming language (such as Python, Java, C, Scala, GO, or others).
Responsibilities
- Flex your strength and knowledge on Java, DevOps, and microservice development.
- Contribute to developing services that are built to industry best practices, including observability, architectural patterns, and inter-team dependency mechanisms (like SLOs)
- Write code to implement high-quality, scalable, future-proof services that will have effective system boundaries
- Participate in team planning and delivery meetings in a way that actively supports the goals and success of the team
- Identify risks and gaps in your assigned work and surface them to team leads
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and peers to define project requirements and execution plans
Other
- 3+ years of experience in engineering, with a preference for candidates with a mix of start-up and large-company experience.
- eComm domain expertise is a bonus
- Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience driving solutions forward and ability to influence results
