Software Engineering Manager, App Search 

Wayfair believes everyone should live in a home they love. Through technology and innovation, we make it possible for shoppers to quickly and easily find exactly what they want from a selection of more than 14 million items across home furnishings, décor, home improvement, housewares, and more. Partnering with Product, Experience Design, Analytics, and business leaders across Wayfair, our Native App Engineering teams contribute to an award-winning mobile experience that makes shopping for your home delightful and engaging. iOS and Android engineers leverage the full capabilities of mobile devices and their SDKs. For example, our apps take advantage of augmented reality, computer vision-assisted product search using the device’s camera, and machine learning to create personalized experiences and improve the speed of the app.

 

The App Search’s team charter is to empower customers to find and discover products that match their interests and support their feeling of home.  We are looking for a driven leader who is passionate about releasing high-quality software and empowering our users to have an excellent shopping experience throughout our native apps.  The ideal candidate has experience in native app development (iOS or Android), and a proven track record of managing stakeholders and external partners. Experience or general interest in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision is a big plus!  This person will leverage their breadth of knowledge in these areas to lead and grow a multi-disciplinary engineering team that delivers features for Wayfair shoppers to make their shopping experience frictionless and delightful.

What You'll Do

• Lead a team of iOS and Android developers working on features and tech that powers our native app’s shopping experience.
• Promote, coach, and drive a high quality culture into the team and organization
• Proactively manage critical project issues, risks and challenges, utilizing project management tools and business expertise to deliver projects.
• Lead and drive engineering initiatives from inception to development, and deployment. Initiatives may cut across multiple aspects of the applications.
• Work closely with product management and business stakeholders to understand and translate business objectives into technical solutions.
• Represent the engineering team in cross-functional projects and to the company at large.
• Utilize strong leadership skills to build the best high performing team.
• Coach, mentor, and keep 1:1 with team members as well as gather feedback and implement necessary improvements.
• Ensure high quality and performance standards for the Wayfair mobile platform.
• Oversee the definition of best practices and coding standards across the entire team; review code and provide guidance for other code reviewers participating in our release approval process.  
• Use data and metrics to collaboratively drive impactful changes across the application; work closely with product and engineering management to anticipate areas for improvement and investment, and highlight these for inclusion in the team's project roadmap.

What You'll Bring

• At least 3+ years of engineering leadership or management experience
• At least 7+ years of software development experience with ideally 3+ years of native app development (iOS or Android)
• Experience in either Swift or Kotlin in building mobile applications with a desire to continuously learn as you strive to develop and improve your team.
• Knowledge of mobile software design patterns and experience working with a variety of architectures.
• Experience recruiting, managing, fostering and retaining talent on a technical team.
• Agile experience and extensive experience working on an agile development team.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• High level of accountability, bias to action and a desire to empower individuals on the team to perform at their best.
• Focus on team building and collaboration over individual performance.

How will you be challenged?

As an engineering manager you will be a technical leader working hand in hand with your product counterpart in setting the direction for one of the most impactful development teams in the Wayfair app development organization.  As we continue to grow, we have been tackling challenges of launching and supporting multiple apps, modularizing our code, and achieving feature parity across Android, iOS, web, and mobile web.  We seek managers who are comfortable leading these efforts and building on the existing foundation of our award winning Wayfair app.

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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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 Berlin, 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.

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