
Senior Software Engineer, Global Supplier Technology
- Bangalore, Karnataka
- Permanent
- Full-time
The Global Supplier technology team is responsible for building the scalable platforms for the supplier ecosystem in Wayfair. It starts with establishment of supplier entities, their catalog journey, advertisement, pricing & order management. This platform provides all necessary accelerants for supplier business growth like supplier ads, business insights & recommendations. We build scalable platforms to meet the demands of customers and suppliers alike. This position is under the Catalog Engineering team that makes it easy for Wayfair's suppliers to add or update their product catalog quickly, accurately and easily and Internal users to thoroughly review to provide the best customer experience on Wayfair's websites. Our work requires us to move fast and collaborate with some of the most talented engineers, creatives, product managers, data scientists, operators, and analysts to discover, build, and scale world-class
software products.We're looking for an experienced senior software engineer to join our highly impactful team to help us build and extend our Platform and services. This Senior Software Engineer will help
lead the team's efforts across various initiatives and is responsible for high standards of our engineering solutions that meet company objectives. We have ambitious goals to shape the
future of Wayfair and we are looking for senior engineers to help accelerate and build upon the results we've delivered so far.What you'll do
- Provide technical leadership to a focused team of 5 - 10 engineers.
- Work with a broader highly collaborative cross-functional team that includes product managers, data scientists, and analysts
- Own the technical vision for your workstream.
- Work with a variety of technologies, including Java, Hive, Spark, Kafka, Aerospike, Airflow, RESTful web services, gRPC, Kubernetes, and GCP offerings like BigQuery.
- Build platforms and services that allow us to make realtime ML powered decisions that improve the customer experience.
- Deliver direct measurable results for our business and customers through improved product recommendations.
- A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related engineering discipline
- At least 12 years of experience in a senior engineer or technical lead role.
- Experience developing and designing scalable distributed systems with deep understanding of architectural and design patterns, object oriented design, modern program languages.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with engineers, product managers, data scientists, analysts and business stakeholders.
- Passion for mentoring and leading peer engineers.
- Experience designing APIs and microservices.
- Experience working on cloud technologies specifically GCP is a plus.
- Designing and developing recommendation systems and productionalizing ML models for real time decisions, large-scale data processing and event-driven systems and technologies is a plus