Software Engineering Manager, Supplier Advertising

Full Time
Boston, MA, USA
4 months ago

This is an onsite role based in Boston, MA. Employees are expected to be onsite Tuesdays-Thursday, and work remotely Mondays and Fridays.

Who We Are

Wayfair is on a path to be the world’s largest online destination for the home.  We are the largest tech first platform in the home category. Our marketplace offers over 30 million products from 23,000 suppliers and we served 23 million customers in 2024 alone.

Wayfair is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and the Wayfair Advertising team owns features that form the core of our onsite advertising business. We ensure that millions of ads served are relevant to our customers by enabling advertisers and agencies to connect with the right customers at the right time with the right products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.We are looking for outstanding candidates to join us as full time Software Development Managers. Successful candidates will have led teams that solve complex and broad business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices, building solutions that are scaled and performed. You will also have a focus on the customer experience, great teamwork and communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.You will lead an Agile team at our development center in Boston, MA, launching and growing new initiatives for Wayfair's global websites. Your team will own the business, technology and operations, giving you the responsibility and authority to ensure success. You will be involved in every aspect of the process  from idea generation, business analysis and technical design through to software development across a variety of technologies. Your systems will meet remarkably high standards of performance and reliability, and will operate at massive scale, 24x7.The position offers exceptional opportunities for every candidate to grow their technical and nontechnical skills. If you are selected, you have the opportunity to really make a difference to our business by inventing, enhancing and building world class websites and systems, delivering results, working on exciting and challenging projects.

Interested in learning more about Wayfair’s Engineering community? 

  • Check out our Wayfair Tech Blog: https://www.aboutwayfair.com/careers/techblog. 
  • Brijesh Sharma is the Associate Director for Supplier Advertising Engineering
  • Ravitej Sriram is the Director of Product leading Supplier Advertising

What You’ll Do:

  • Lead and manage a team of 5 - 9 engineers focused on building services that support the Wayfair sponsored program and its integration with Storefront and Recommendation systems within Wayfair. 
  • Own the output of the team both from a technical and performance perspective.
  • Mentor engineers in the team through training, coaching, code reviews, and 1:1 mentorship providing career and professional development for your staff.
  • 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.

We Are a Match Because You Have:

  • Experience working directly within engineering teams
  • Experience partnering with product or program management team
  • Experience managing a team of high caliber Software Engineers developing complex, world class, scalable software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
  • 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 livesite 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
  • 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.

We Are a Match Because You Also Have :

  •  Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
  • Experience in the digital advertising or marketing space
  • Familiarity with the technical aspects of digital / display advertising OR familiarity with high speed, ML heavy systems

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.

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.

Your personal data is processed in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Notice (https://www.wayfair.com/careers/privacy). If you have any questions or wish to exercise your rights under applicable privacy and data protection laws, please contact us at dataprotectionofficer@wayfair.com.