Senior Software Engineer, Supplier Advertising Engineering

Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Toronto, CN and will be expected to comply with their team's hybrid work schedule requirements.

Who We Are

At Wayfair, we harness the power of technology innovation to connect suppliers with our extensive customer base. The advertising platform is an integral part of our mission. Operating on a vast selection of sponsored items of decor, home improvement, housewares, and more, our platform ensures that suppliers can showcase their offerings to the extended audience, enhancing visibility and driving sales. Wayfair is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business. Wayfair Advertising team owns features that form the core of our onsite and offsite advertising business. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.

Our offsite Retail Media Network is a new addition to our Supplier Advertising Experience suite. This addition allows suppliers to promote their products directly on the offsite Retail Media Network, providing customers with an enhanced shopping experience. With RMN, suppliers have increased visibility and control over their offsite advertising campaigns through a dedicated platform to manage sponsored offerings, performance and budgets.

Successful candidates will have to solve complex and broad business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices, building solutions that are scaled and performed. You will also have a focus on the customer experience, great teamwork and communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.

What You’ll Do:

• Partner with your business stakeholders to provide them with transparency, data, and resources to make informed decisions
• Be a technical leader within and across the teams you work with.
• Drive high impact architectural decisions and hands-on development, including inception, design, execution, and delivery following good design and coding practices.
• Obsessively focus on production readiness for the team including testing, monitoring, deployment, documentation and proactive troubleshooting.
• Identify risks and gaps in technical approaches and propose solutions to meet team and project goals.
• Create proposals and action plans to garner support across the organization.
• Influence and contribute to the team’s strategy and roadmap.
• Tenacity for learning - curious, and constantly pushing the boundary of what is possible.

What You'll Need:

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with expertise in designing and building scalable platforms.
• Hands-on contribution to the codebase is a MUST.
• Extensive knowledge of backend technologies, proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, or similar.
• Experience in full-stack development will be preferred. 
• Experience in e-commerce advertising, including ad targeting, campaign management, performance tracking, and integration with advertising platforms.
• Expertise in microservices architecture for highly available, large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Ability to define a future state vision, lead large-scale architectural solutions, and guide step-by-step execution.
• Collaborate with Product Managers (PM) and Experience Designers (XD) to balance cost-effectiveness with business value and prioritize engineering solutions accordingly.
• Define internal priorities during project execution based on engineering aspects and solution designs.
• Mentor and coach engineers, conduct code reviews, and establish best practices to drive engineering excellence.
• Foster adoption of new technologies, platforms, and architectural solutions across the team.
• Passion for leading cross-functional projects, driving collaboration, and influencing design decisions to enhance customer experience and scalability.

• Full health benefits available (Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA/FSA) on day one for eligible employees.
• No-cost access to 2nd.MD, a virtual expert medical consultation and navigation service.
• Global Traveler Health Insurance through GeoBlue.
• 24/7 access to mental, financial, physical and emotional wellbeing support, plus an enhanced offering of therapy and coaching.
• Automatic enrollment into Basic Life and Accidental Death & Disability Insurance.
• 401(k) matching with immediate vesting.
• Paid Parental Leave, Surrogacy & Adoption Reimbursement and Caregiver Services.
• Tuition Reimbursement.
• Wayfair Employee Discount.
• Gym/Fitness Discounts (including Peloton, Wellhub and varying regional memberships).
• Exclusive access to thousands of perks & discounts through BenefitHub.
• Yearly match up to $500 for personal donations made by employees to registered 501(c)(3) nonprofits.

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 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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