Senior Software Engineer, Supply Chain Retail Technology

Full Time
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
8 months ago

Who We Are:

Wayfair is one of the world's largest destinations for the home, as the company shares and celebrates progress across environmental, social, and governance topics. Wayfair is the destination for all things home: helping everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home. From expert customer service to the 

development of tools that make the shopping process easier, to carry one of the widest and deepest selections of items for every space, style, and budget, Wayfair gives everyone the power to create spaces that are just right for them. 

We deliver a best-in-class customer experience in the furniture and home space. To maintain our high level of delivery standards and meet our customer's needs, the Wayfair dedicated operations team plays a key role in improving customer satisfaction and driving repeat business. We've been busy building a best-in-class logistics network that allows us to delight customers by speeding up deliveries, adding services, and reducing damage using our physical, asset-based warehouses. 

The initial focus for the site will be to build Wayfair's greenfield Omni Supply Chain Platform to scale our innovative, large parcel network that serves our vast marketplace. While this is a massive mission in itself, you will work as a Backend Engineer encompassing an Engineering excellence mindset, taking the lead in your team through technical responsibilities like designing scalable architectures, solving the most complex problems and being a mentor and helping the team through a volatile and ever changing environment! 

What You’ll Do:

  • Responsible for designing and being hands-on in building web-based, event driven, cloud enabled applications that are reliable, scalable and easy to maintain; 
  • Ensure the quality of engineering direction across multiple teams within the organization
  • Contribute to architectural and code review discussions that impact our engineering ecosystem
  • Define standards to raise the bar of the teams you'll be working with 
  • Mentor less experienced software engineers 
  • Collaborate with leads and engineers across multiple teams to solve a wide variety of business and technical problems 
  • Ensure our systems are properly documented 
  • Contribute to the growth and development of the Wayfair engineering scene within Bengaluru and beyond. 

We Are a Match Because You Have:

  • Excellent team player with a passion for collaboration 
  • 5+ years of object-oriented software development experience - preferably using Java, Spring Boot, React, Kubernetes, GCP (or any cloud), Kafka, and MSSQL 
  • Vast experience working with relational and NoSQL databases and event-driven architectures
  • Great skills in solving complex problems with simple abstract solutions 
  • Knowledge of web development technologies and distributed systems 
  • Experience with SOA and microservices 
  • Good understanding of how to use cloud platforms to solve problems, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP) 
  • Experience working in agile environments 
  • Interest in being challenged in a fast-paced environment while having fun 
  • Analytical and creative mindset, with a passion for solving business problems with technology
  • Ability to quickly translate business requirements into working features 
  • Ability to describe complex problems in an understandable way tailored to diverse audiences
  • High proficiency in oral and written English

 

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