Who We Are

As a leader in the e-commerce industry, Wayfair revolutionizes the home shopping experience with an extensive online marketplace and physical stores offering “everything home”, empowering customers to transform their living spaces.

The Fulfillment Optimization 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 fulfillment information on our websites. Throughout this customer journey, we are responsible for maintaining an accurate representation of our dynamic supply chain, predict cartonization, the carton journey, and ultimately surface the information to our customers, suppliers and carriers so all parties can make informed decisions. We do all of this in milliseconds, thousands of times per second.

We are looking for a passionate Back-End Software Engineer for one of our core interfaces teams. The team is responsible for providing fulfillment promise-related information to customers as they shop on Wayfair.com if you want to create, maintain, and improve high-performing APIs that can scale to systems that serve Wayfair customers at scale. 

You will work in a global team, with on-premise and cloud-based deployments in an inclusive environment. 

What you’ll do:

• Design, develop, operate, and maintain event-driven, cloud enabled applications API interfaces at scale. 
• Build highly performant and scalable systems with hands-on development, including inception, design, execution, and delivery following good design and coding practices.
• Collaborate with leads and engineers across multiple teams to solve a wide variety of business and technical problems
• Obsessively focus on production readiness for the team including testing, monitoring, observability, deployment, documentation and proactive troubleshooting.
• Identify risks and gaps in technical approaches and propose solutions to meet team and project goals.
• Cultivate a deep understanding of how your systems impact Wayfair’s customers, field associates, and other systems
• Help grow other engineers technically by mentoring, pairing, and developing other learning opportunities
• Contribute to a culture of engineering excellence and strengthen the technical expertise of our engineering and product teams

What you bring to the table:

• 4+ years of experience in backend software engineering, architecting and implementing robust, distributed event-driven applications or microservices 
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Track-record of being a hands-on developer efficiently building technically sound systems.
• Experience building microservices with .NET or Java or any major programming language
• Experience with Continuous Integration (CI/CD) practices and tools (Buildkite, Jenkins, etc.).
• Experience architecting solutions leveraging distributed infrastructure (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, etc).
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server, Aerospike, Redis.
• Experience leveraging monitoring and logging technologies (e.g. DataDog, Elasticsearch etc).

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, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Your personal data is processed in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Notice (https://www.wayfair.com/careers/privacy). If you have any questions or wish to exercise your rights under applicable privacy and data protection laws, please contact us at dataprotectionofficer@wayfair.com.