Who We Are:

The Engineering Effectiveness team is responsible for building Wayfair's foundation system for the entire technology organization. It touches thousands of developers globally, helping them achieve their product goals faster, better, and enjoy that work more.The types of systems built by this team range from CI/CD systems to in language tooling like libraries, frameworks and templates, even using the power of Generative AI to allow our teams to focus on more satisfying problems.  

What You’ll Do:

• Play a key role in developing and driving a multi-year technology strategy for a complex platform.
• Lead multiple software development teams - architecting solutions at scale to empower the business and owning all aspects of the SDLC: design, build, deliver, and maintain.
• Directly and indirectly manage several software engineers by providing coaching, guidance, and mentorship to grow the team as well as individuals.
• Inspire, coach, mentor, and support your team members in their day to day work and their long term professional growth.
• Attract, onboard, develop and retain diverse top talents, while fostering an inclusive and collaborative team and culture.
• Lead your team and peers by example. As a senior member of the team your methodologies, technical and operational excellence practices, and system designs will help to continuously improve our domain.
• Identify, propose, and drive initiatives to advance the technical skills, standards, practices, architecture, and documentation of our engineering teams.
• Facilitate technical debate and decision making with an appreciation for trade-offs
• Continuously rethink and push the status quo, even when it challenges your/our established ideas.

What You’ll Need:

• Results-oriented, collaborative, pragmatic, and continuous improvement mindset.
• Hands-on experience driving release engineering within high-growth environments, previous platform experience is required.
• Good understanding of modern deployment methodologies including progressive, green/blue, etc.
• Experience working with containers, container orchestration and deploy automation. 
• 10+ years of experience in engineering,  out of which at least 5-6 years spent in leading highly performant teams .
• Experience making architectural and design-related decisions for large scale platforms, understanding the tradeoffs between time-to-market vs. flexibility.
• Significant experience and vocation in managing and enabling people’s growth and performance.
• Experience designing and building high-scale generalizable products with outstanding user experience. Practical experience in hiring and developing engineering teams and culture and leading interdisciplinary teams in a fast-paced agile environment.
• Capability to communicate and collaborate across the wider organization, influencing decisions with and without direct authority and always with inclusive, adaptable, and persuasive communication.
• Analytical and decision-making skills that integrate technical and business requirements

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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