Wayfair’s Search and Recommendations team builds the core platforms and services that allow our customers to discover & buy the products they love. Just last year alone our team has contributed to hundreds of millions in incremental revenue. We do this by leveraging Wayfair’s extensive customer and product data to deliver trusted and valuable recommendations in real-time using custom machine learning models. We productionalize these ML models as microservices and build data pipelines necessary for inference and model training.

Our platforms and services are used to power experiences for search, browse across multiple storefront and marketing channels and are called over a billion times a day.

We’re looking for an experienced senior software engineer to join our highly impactful team to help us build and extend our Platform and services. This Senior Software Engineer will help lead the team’s efforts across various initiatives and is responsible for high standards of our engineering solutions that meet company objectives. We have ambitious goals to shape the future of Wayfair and we are looking for senior engineers to help accelerate and build upon the results we’ve delivered so far.

What you'll do

• Provide technical leadership to a focused team of 5 - 10 engineers.
• Work with a broader highly collaborative cross-functional team that includes product managers, data scientists, and analysts.
• Own the technical vision for your workstream.
• Work with a variety of technologies, including Java, Python, Hive, Spark, Kafka, Aerospike, Airflow, RESTful web services, gRPC, Kubernetes, and GCP offerings like BigQuery.
• Build platforms and services that allow us to make realtime ML powered decisions that improve the customer experience.
• Deliver direct measurable results for our business and customers through improved product recommendations.

What you'll need

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related engineering discipline
• At least 12 years of experience in a senior engineer or technical lead role.
• Experience developing and designing scalable distributed systems with deep understanding of architectural and design patterns, object oriented design, modern program languages.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with engineers, product managers, data scientists, analysts and business stakeholders.
• Passion for mentoring and leading peer engineers.
• Experience designing APIs and microservices.
• Experience working on cloud technologies specifically GCP is a plus.
• Designing and developing recommendation systems and productionalizing ML models for real time decisions, large-scale data processing and event-driven systems and technologies is a plus.

Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities

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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