Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

Full Time
Bangalore, IND
11 months ago

 

Who We Are:

At Wayfair we are well on the way to becoming the world’s number one, online destination for all things home. Our core belief is that everyone should live in a home they love. We make this possible by ensuring our 24 million customers have all the technology and innovation they need at their fingertips, to give them access to our more than 33 million products which are provided by our 23,000 awesome global suppliers. In the Storefront team, we are the first impression of a  customer’s shopping experience; we own the design and implementation of the customer-facing website. We partner with Product, Experience Design, Analytics and business leaders across Wayfair; our Storefront Engineering teams ensure that we’re building technology that solves important customer problems in elegant, scalable, measurable ways.  

Bengaluru is home to our brand new, strategic technology delivery center and will be critical to achieving our future growth plans. We are looking for best in class Engineers to come in and help scale our technical products and teams alike as we continue on our path to be the world’s number one online destination for the home. As one of the early members of the team here in our strategic technology delivery center, you will partner closely with our technology and business leaders from around the world to help build the platform to support our growth plans to $50B USD and beyond in the next 3 to 5 years.

The team in the Bengaluru delivery center can work across multiple domains that drive speed and convenience for the customer and cost efficiency across the full value chain. The work we do at Wayfair means we have to move quickly, collaborating with the best and brightest engineers, creatives, product managers, data scientists, and analysts to discover, build, and scale world-class software products.

If you love to solve real business problems at scale, in a fast-paced, high growth and agile environment, this is the role for you!

What You’ll Do:
  • Tech Lead building rich, responsive and fast frontend experiences seen and used by millions of customers everyday
  • Create a culture of frontend quality via coaching, pair programming, design sessions, and code review to ensure our frontend code is thoughtful, scalable, reusable, well tested and performant
  •  using frameworks such as React and Next
  • Author and contribute to internal libraries that emphasize intuitive interfaces and composability
  • Lead large-scale projects that influence how customers shop at Wayfair
  • Together with our platform teams, push our frontend strategy to the forefront of industry best practices with regard to web standards, component breakdown, accessibility, cross-device design and code considerations, page rendering, and browser performance.
  • Collaborate with Design Leads and Product Managers to turn wireframes and mockups into responsive, consistent UIs that leverage and contribute back to our central React Pattern Library
  • Work and collaborate with backend, GraphQL, App etc teams to employ industry best practices with regard to web standards, component breakdown, accessibility, cross-device design and page performance.
  • Use your expertise to guide developers towards idiomatic solutions
  • Be a part of the team that is leading the market in delivering the most delightful customer online shopping experience for home furnishings in a quickly changing landscape
What You’ll Need 
  • A deep knowledge of JavaScript and its ecosystem, and experience developing large JS applications
  • A deep understanding of a JavaScript state management library, such as Redux, MobX, or Apollo
  • An understanding of CSS, HTML, and related concepts at-scale (responsive/adaptive design, accessibility, libraries and post-processors)
  • A passion for UI, UX, and Design Systems and working with designers to create engaging and intuitive experiences across devices
  • Responsive design principles to allow web pages to adapt to different screen sizes and devices, making them accessible to a wider audience
  • Proficient in testing and debugging techniques to identify and fix issues in their code and helping others debug/resolve coding issues 
  • Up-to-date on the latest frontend and design technology, trends, and industry news
  • A genuine believer in constructive and respectful code reviews, retros, and collaborative problem-solving as the bedrock of a healthy team and experience utilizing these as mentorship vectors
  • Proven experience in working with product managers and designers to define, break down, and collaborate on feature work
  • Great communication skills and the ability to support technical decision making with the team
  • A track record of delivering in increments and learning as you go

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, or genetic information.

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Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please let us know by completing our Accomodations for Applicants form.

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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.

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