Senior Software Engineer

Software Engineer III, GST

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

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 Senior Software Engineers. Successful candidates will have to 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.

What You Will Do:

• Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable, and efficient backend services and APIs using Java, ensuring high performance and responsiveness for millions of users.
• Develop and optimize database queries, schema designs, and data models to support complex, large-scale applications.
• Write thoughtful, scalable, reusable, well tested and performant frontend code using frameworks such as React and Next
• Work closely with Product Managers, UX/UI Designers, and other stakeholders to define and implement technical solutions that meet business requirements.
• Write clean, scalable, and well-tested code, ensuring systems are resilient, secure, and maintainable.
• Stay current with industry best practices and emerging technologies in full stack development, and actively contribute to improving the architecture and development processes.
• Lead and mentor junior developers, conduct code reviews, and help establish best practices in software engineering across the team.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve complex issues, ensuring the stability and reliability of the systems.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the development process, including the implementation of CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.

What you bring to the table

• 6+ years experience in Software Engineering with designing and building large scale platforms as a Fullstack Developer with Backend heavy.
• Experience leading/supervising and/or mentoring engineers, leading code reviews, and establishing best engineering practices.
• Passion for leading cross functional projects through collaboration and influencing design decisions.
• Deep understanding of modern programming languages such as Java, Python.
• Professional experience coding JavaScript, CSS, and HTML from scratch as well as a familiarity with modern client-side frameworks (React, Styled Components, SASS, etc)
• Experience in e-commerce advertising, including ad targeting, campaign management, performance tracking, and integration with advertising platforms.
• Good understanding of cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Desired, but not required, you know responsive design principles to allow web pages to adapt to different screen sizes and devices, making them accessible to a wider audience, cross-browser compatibility is a plus
• Proficient in testing and debugging techniques to identify and fix issues in their code
• Experience in working with product managers and designers to define, break down, and collaborate on feature work
• A genuine believer in constructive and respectful code reviews, retros, and collaborative problem-solving as the bedrock of a healthy team
• Great communication skills and the ability to support technical decision making with the team.

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.

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