Wayfair's Sales Technology organization needs to empower its Sales associates with technology to help millions of customers with their home furnishing projects, aiming to reimagine project shopping, agent tooling, and customer communications to drive business growth and build lasting customer relationships.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years in a technical leadership or people management role.
- Proven success leading teams that deliver scalable, distributed systems, services, or integrations in a complex business environment.
- Strong technical acumen with the ability to dive deep into architecture and design decisions while enabling your team’s autonomy.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to align technical and business perspectives.
- Experience collaborating with Product, Design, Analytics, and Commercial stakeholders to define and deliver impactful solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow engineers at varying levels of experience.
- A bias toward action, with a passion for iterating quickly, testing, and learning to achieve customer and business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of 5-9 engineers responsible for building and scaling the platforms that power B2B & B2C Sales at Wayfair.
- Own the technical output of your team across design, development, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
- Partner closely with Product Managers to define roadmaps, shape requirements, and ensure delivery against a clear mission and KPIs.
- Provide mentorship and coaching through 1:1s, code reviews, and career development support, fostering a culture of growth, inclusion, and technical excellence.
- Raise the bar on engineering best practices – driving improvements in reliability, scalability, and velocity.
- Collaborate across Sales Technology and broader Wayfair Engineering to establish and leverage common APIs, services, and frameworks.
- Partner with senior leaders across Product, Design, Analytics, and Sales Operations to build solutions that address complex customer and business needs.
Other
- Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Boston, MA and will be expected to comply with their team's hybrid work schedule requirements.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience
