Wayfair is looking to build and grow the offsite Retail Media Network (RMN), a new addition to their Supplier Advertising Experience suite, which allows suppliers to promote their products directly on the offsite Retail Media Network, providing customers with an enhanced shopping experience.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with expertise in designing and building scalable platforms.
- 5+ years of experience managing a team of high caliber Software Engineers developing complex, world class, scalable software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience with Cloud Native architecture platforms like Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure.
- Experience in backend software engineering using object oriented language
- Experience working with relational and non-relational databases
- Experience working with event-driven architectures, DDD, and TDD
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and live site operations
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of 5 - 9 engineers focused on building services that support the new Wayfair Retail Media Network program and its integration with external websites and advertising systems.
- Own the output of the team both from a technical and performance perspective.
- Mentor engineers in the team through training, coaching, code reviews, and 1:1 mentorship providing career and professional development for your staff.
- Accountable for the systems built by your team including technical design, development, test, monitoring, and deployment.
- Engage your team to construct the technical roadmap and lead planning, delivery and continuous improvement.
- Partner with product on defining roadmaps and ensure the team has a compelling mission with well defined KPIs to measure progress and success.
- Raise the bar from both a technical and process perspective.
Other
- Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Toronto, Canada or Boston, MA and will be expected to comply with their team's hybrid work schedule requirements.
- You will also have a focus on the supplier experience, great teamwork and communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.
- Experience partnering with product or program management team
- Experience partnering with cross-functional engineering and science teams
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective product software engineers
