Wayfair
Software Engineer. Advertising Engineering
Wayfair, Mountain View, California, us, 94039
Who We Are:
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 Engineering teams ensure that we’re building technology that solves important customer problems in elegant, scalable, measurable ways.
About The Team:
We are the Advertising Engineering group within Wayfair. We work with our supplier community creating end to end solutions that help increase their sales and exposure on Wayfair sites and apps through targeted ads and sponsorships. Not only are we generating millions in extra revenue for suppliers and solidifying Wayfair as a preferred partner, but we’ve built a significant business that’s one of the highest growth areas in the company. The Sponsored Products team enables Wayfair suppliers to highlight products they have available for sale on Wayfair sites by placing them in highly visible positions as customers browse through or search for products on Wayfair sites. We build highly available and highly scalable real-time software systems that determine which products to highlight to a particular customer. Using product and keyword targeting campaigns, we show the most relevant ads to the customer without sacrificing customer experience.
These products enable suppliers to target customers at the right price using an inhouse real time auction system.
Technologies:
Java, PHP, Spark, ElasticSearch, SOLR, Aerospike, Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, Airflow, ReactJS
What You’ll Do:
Work in our Java applications to implement new capabilities and business features while optimizing performance.
Work with Product Managers and business partners to identify requirements
You’ll be participating in technical roadmaps, design, and implementation within a team of high performing engineers that will shape the future of Advertising in Wayfair.
Provide high-quality code reviews and contribute architectural designs.
What You’ll Need:
Experience as a full stack, full lifecycle software engineer and deep understanding of a modern programming language (such as Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, C#, Scala, GO, or others)
Passion for leading a large, cross-cutting technical initiative to delivery, cross-functional consensus building and influencing design decisions
Ample experience gathering requirements from business stakeholders and deriving software requirements
Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL, e.g. MySQL, Cassandra)
Experience with Google Cloud Platform or AWS/Azure at scale
Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders alike
Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques
Candidates for this position should be based in the Mountainview. CA and will be expected to comply with their team's hybrid work schedule 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.
Need Assistance?
For more information about applying for a career at Wayfair, visit our FAQ page here.
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.
We are interested in retaining your data for a period of 12 months to consider you for suitable positions within Wayfair. Your personal data is processed in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Notice (which can found here: https://www.wayfair.com/careers/privacy). If you have any questions regarding our processing of your personal data, please contact us at dataprotectionofficer@wayfair.com. If you would rather not have us retain your data please contact us anytime at dataprotectionofficer@wayfair.com.
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 Engineering teams ensure that we’re building technology that solves important customer problems in elegant, scalable, measurable ways.
About The Team:
We are the Advertising Engineering group within Wayfair. We work with our supplier community creating end to end solutions that help increase their sales and exposure on Wayfair sites and apps through targeted ads and sponsorships. Not only are we generating millions in extra revenue for suppliers and solidifying Wayfair as a preferred partner, but we’ve built a significant business that’s one of the highest growth areas in the company. The Sponsored Products team enables Wayfair suppliers to highlight products they have available for sale on Wayfair sites by placing them in highly visible positions as customers browse through or search for products on Wayfair sites. We build highly available and highly scalable real-time software systems that determine which products to highlight to a particular customer. Using product and keyword targeting campaigns, we show the most relevant ads to the customer without sacrificing customer experience.
These products enable suppliers to target customers at the right price using an inhouse real time auction system.
Technologies:
Java, PHP, Spark, ElasticSearch, SOLR, Aerospike, Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, Airflow, ReactJS
What You’ll Do:
Work in our Java applications to implement new capabilities and business features while optimizing performance.
Work with Product Managers and business partners to identify requirements
You’ll be participating in technical roadmaps, design, and implementation within a team of high performing engineers that will shape the future of Advertising in Wayfair.
Provide high-quality code reviews and contribute architectural designs.
What You’ll Need:
Experience as a full stack, full lifecycle software engineer and deep understanding of a modern programming language (such as Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, C#, Scala, GO, or others)
Passion for leading a large, cross-cutting technical initiative to delivery, cross-functional consensus building and influencing design decisions
Ample experience gathering requirements from business stakeholders and deriving software requirements
Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL, e.g. MySQL, Cassandra)
Experience with Google Cloud Platform or AWS/Azure at scale
Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders alike
Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques
Candidates for this position should be based in the Mountainview. CA and will be expected to comply with their team's hybrid work schedule 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.
Need Assistance?
For more information about applying for a career at Wayfair, visit our FAQ page here.
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.
We are interested in retaining your data for a period of 12 months to consider you for suitable positions within Wayfair. Your personal data is processed in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Notice (which can found here: https://www.wayfair.com/careers/privacy). If you have any questions regarding our processing of your personal data, please contact us at dataprotectionofficer@wayfair.com. If you would rather not have us retain your data please contact us anytime at dataprotectionofficer@wayfair.com.