Who we are 

The Growth & Ad Platforms Engineering team is responsible for building Wayfair's class leading, data centric technology platform that optimizes and powers all of Wayfair's paid advertising. It touches hundreds of millions of consumers and drives billions of dollars in annual revenue. Our platforms allow us to scale our marketing efforts efficiently by automating key processes, interacting with ad vendors in real time and leveraging hundreds of terabytes of data and ML algorithms for optimization and effective decision making on millions of items in our catalog.The types of systems built by this team range from low latency REST APIs, to real time streaming systems to high performance large scale batch systems. 

What You'll Do:

• Take complex engineering problems, design appropriate solutions and deliver on them fairly independently with limited oversight.

• Work on a variety of technologies - from large batch processes using Apache Beam and Spark, to event based systems using Kafka, K8s and Flink to robust REST APIs .

• Architect and implement robust, well-tested services. Provide technical design and code reviews for peers within your team and across the broader Growth & Ad Platforms org.

• Provide insights into opportunity areas for the platform, influencing priorities and team roadmaps in close partnership with Engineering and Product leadership.

• Be a multiplier, mentor other engineers on the team and help them become more productive and implement engineering best practices.

• Promote a culture of engineering excellence, up-leveling the technical expertise of engineers across Growth & Ad Platforms org.

What you’ll Need:

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering and designing systems at scale.

• Experience developing applications using technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, SQL and React

• Experience with Google Cloud Services such as PubSub, Dataflow and Dataproc would be a plus

• Experience with Continuous Integration (CI/CD) practices and tools.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Ability to work effectively with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders alike

• Experience mentoring engineers and leading code reviews.

• A track record of delivering in increments and learning as you go

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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