Senior Software Engineering Manager, Fullstack

Platform Catalog & Insights

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.

The Platform Insights team is looking for smart, passionate and curious people who are excited to help us scale, support, and engineer our database, distributed analytic, and dashboards. With the broad reach of the technologies we are using you will have the opportunity to grow your network and skills by being exposed to new people and ideas who work on a diverse set of cutting-edge technologies. If you are the type of person who is fascinated by engineering extremely large and diverse data systems and if you are passionate about troubleshooting challenging technical problems in a rapidly innovating cloud environment, you could be a great fit.

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.
• 10+ years of experience in engineering, out of which at least 5-6 years spent in leading highly performant teams.
• Experience in development of new applications using technologies such as Python, Java or Go.
• 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.
• 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

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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