Software Engineering Manager - Catalog Consumption 

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

 The base pay for this position is $172,500 - $207,000 annually. The base pay offered may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Who We Are:

At Wayfair, we harness the power of data and technology to deliver rich, flexible, and scalable catalog experiences to millions of customers worldwide. The Catalog Data Foundation (CDF) is at the heart of this mission—responsible for ensuring that product data is structured, validated, localized, governed, and projected seamlessly into customer-facing systems. 

Within CDF, the Catalog Consumption team enables scalable, reliable access to core catalog data, drives the modernization of key systems and empowers teams to independently manage their data migration and discovery processes. We also build the interfaces between our customer-facing platforms and foundational data systems, while driving strategies that separate customer facing functions (like storefronts and advertising) from fulfillment operations (such as inventory and billing), aiming to enable flexible, large-scale merchandising. 

We are highly collaborative, innovative, and data-driven, utilizing cutting-edge technologies like AI, Apollo GraphQL, Aerospike and Kafka in order to build resilient, high-performance systems that serve both our internal teams and our customers. This is a high visibility role that is at the nexus of everything that CDF is doing to power Wayfair's next generation of retail, from customer experiences to our core business operations.

We are looking for outstanding candidates to join us as a full-time Engineering Manager. Successful candidates will lead strong, empowered teams that own and operate core subgraphs in the federated ecosystem. You will solve complex technical and business challenges with scalable, performant, and maintainable solutions, while driving best practices in engineering and leadership. You’ll be responsible for enabling seamless catalog data access, ensuring subgraph ownership aligns with domain expertise, and delivering the single source of truth that powers Wayfair’s merchandising and storefront experiences.

You will lead a team based in North America, partnering with Product, Architecture, and other Catalog Foundation teams to design, build, and evolve the next generation of catalog consumption infrastructure. Your team will have end-to-end ownership—from idea generation and technical design, through development and delivery—giving you both the responsibility and authority to ensure success.

The position offers exceptional opportunities for technical and leadership growth. If you are selected, you will have the chance to directly influence Wayfair’s core shopping experience, enabling merchandising flexibility at scale, accelerating innovation, and empowering atomic teams across the company to truly work atomically.

Interested in learning more about Wayfair’s Engineering community? 

• Check out our Wayfair Tech Blog: https://www.aboutwayfair.com/careers/techblog 
• Sanjeev Gupta leads the Catalog Foundations and Merch superpod. 
• Amr Sinan is the Associate Director for Catalog Platform.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and manage a team of 6-10 engineers delivering high-throughput, low-latency services.
• Own the output of the team from both a technical and performance perspective.
• Mentor engineers through training, coaching, code reviews, and 1:1 mentorship, providing career and professional development.
• Accountable for the systems built by your team including technical design, development, test, monitoring, and deployment.
• Engage your team to construct the technical roadmap and lead planning, delivery and continuous improvement.
• Partner with product on defining roadmaps and ensure the team has a compelling mission with well defined KPIs to measure progress and success.
• Raise the bar from both a technical and process perspective.
• Drive migration of clients off of legacy GraphQL to Federated GraphQL, including documentation, tooling, and direct client support.
• Lead the development of interfaces between Storefront and Catalog Foundations, ensuring performant and standardized identifier handling for complex product scenarios.
• Design and deliver loosely coupled systems that decouple Customer-facing (Storefront, Ads) concerns from Fulfillment (inventory, billing, shipping).
• Champion GraphQL Federation adoption and optimization, ensuring a scalable, performant model for catalog data consumption.

What You’ll Need:

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with expertise in designing and building scalable platforms.
• 5+ years managing high caliber Software Engineers delivering complex, world-class, scalable systems.
• Experience with Cloud Native architecture platforms (Google Cloud, AWS, Azure).
• Experience in backend software engineering using object oriented languages like Java, C#, etc 
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases
• Experience working with event-driven architectures, DDD, and TDD
• Strong track record partnering with product/program management and cross-functional teams
• Experience partnering with cross-functional engineering and science teams
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and live site operations
• Experience in leading the definition and development of multi tier web services
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Hands-on experience with GraphQL Federation and large-scale API/schema design
• Proven ability to lead data migration and schema evolution efforts, including client enablement and adoption
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective product software engineers
• Experience analyzing business and operational metrics.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Computer Science degree or postgraduate study. In lieu of a degree, relevant skills and equivalent experience.

Benefits & Perks:

• 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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