Software Engineer I - Boston, United States - Wayfair

Description

Software Engineer I - Summer 2024

Wayfair is on a mission to find the most talented engineers entering the tech world Do you love innovating and creating new tools from scratch? We're looking for engineers who love sharing ideas, collaborating to improve them, and being a part of the full software development process. Our engineers are enthusiastic problem solvers and our teams are highly collaborative.

Wayfair is looking for candidates who are passionate about programming, and have strong core fundamentals - no matter how (or when) they learned to code. If you feel confident in your knowledge of object oriented design, data structures, & algorithms and your ability to grow your skills over time, please apply We want to connect with developers who are eager to work in a highly collaborative team and add to Wayfair's culture. You will have the opportunity to work on one of the following teams:

Employee & Enterprise Technology: Builds and improves the software that directly impacts customers, customer service, sales, finance operations and accounting, talent management and external vendors. This team is responsible for all the tools and processes to support business critical operations at Wayfair, along with supporting the continued enhancement and scaling capabilities of these systems.

Global Supplier Tech: Wayfair sells millions of products and this team owns all the data, tools, and systems that create and manage the content on the site related to each product. We build tools for our thousands of suppliers to send us content we need to be able to sell their products on site. This team makes sure the customer has the information they need to be confident when purchasing for their home. Within Catalog, there are also teams such as pricing & competitive intelligence engineering, merchandising & media engineering, and virtual media.

Search and Recommendations Tech: Provides the core platforms and services that allow our customers to discover & buy the products they love. Our systems leverage Wayfair's extensive customer and product data to deliver trusted and valuable recommendations in real-time using custom machine learning models.

Storefront Tech: We develop the features, web services, and data architecture that provide a world-class shopping engine for our millions of unique daily customers. We work in small, cross-functional agile teams to develop, deploy, and iterate on new experiences by partnering with Product, Experience Design, Analytics, and business leaders across Wayfair. Our Websites and Native Apps are built on a foundation of highly-scalable technologies and supports tens of millions of products. We tackle exciting problems that are reshaping how people discover, find, purchase and have goods delivered to their homes. We are a diverse, multidisciplinary team of world-class engineers with a highly visible workstream that drives significant impact.

Supply Chain Retail Tech: Develops the complex, ground-breaking logistics system to help move the products Wayfair sells from suppliers to warehouses to customers. Supply Chain is responsible for international transportation, warehouse management, and the customer delivery network making it all possible.

What You'll Need:

Excellent team player with a passion for collaboration

1-2 years of software development experience is preferred

You may have an undergraduate degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and are looking for a role starting in Summer 2024

You have experience with full stack and/or mobile development

You are familiar with creating software tools and functionality, debugging code, and successfully incorporating feedback into your work

You have knowledge and experience working with object oriented programming languages

You have great skills in solving complex problems with simple abstract solutions

You have experience or exposure to SQL, Java, and Python

You have an interest in working with big data and machine learning

You may have experience with using cloud platforms to solve problems

You may have experience working in agile environments

You enjoy autonomy and the opportunity to make a project or tool on your own

You have strong communication skills

What You'll Do:

Responsible for designing and being hands-on in building applications that are reliable, scalable and easy to maintain

Ensure the quality of engineering direction across multiple teams within the organization

Contribute to architectural and code review discussions that impact our engineering ecosystem

Define standards to raise the bar of the teams you'll be working with

Collaborate with leads and engineers across multiple teams to solve a wide variety of business and technical problems

Ensure our systems are properly documented

Contribute to the growth and development of the Wayfair engineering organization

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.

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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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