Senior Software Engineer (Architect) Martech / Adtech

Job description

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

Who We Are:
Wayfair runs the largest custom e-commerce large parcel network in the United States, approximately 1.6 million square meters of logistics space.

The nature of the network is inherently a highly variable ecosystem that requires flexible, reliable, and resilient systems to operate efficiently.
Wayfair believes everyone should live in a home they love.

Through technology and innovation, Wayfair makes 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.

Committed to delighting its customers every step of the way, Wayfair is reinventing the way people shop for their homes – from product discovery to final delivery.
The MarTech Engineering team is responsible for building Wayfair's class leading, high scale low latency technology platform that optimizes and powers all of Wayfair's advertising and marketing communication.

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 and Graph QL APIs, to streaming systems processing billions of daily events in real time to large scale batch systems.

What You'll Do:
Serve as the local technical lead in the critical domain, designing & building a platform that is high scale, low latency and interfaces with many different systems within Wayfair.
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 Marketing and Data platform team.
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 Marketing and Data platform org.

We Are a Match Because You Have:
11+ years of experience in software engineering and designing systems at scale.
Experience developing applications using technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, SQL and React, GraphQL
Experience with Kafka, SQL, BigTable, Aerospike, Apache Pulsar
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
MarTech experience is preferred

About Wayfair Inc.
Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home.

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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Required Skill Profession

Computer Occupations