Senior Java Consultant

Role—Java Full Stack developer L4 IC

Experience: 8+ years

Location: Remote / Work from Home

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

We have 23,000 suppliers, and we served 24 million customers in 2021 alone.

As a member of the Experiences Platform team, you will partner with our technology and

business leaders to build the technology platform to support our growth plans to $50B USD and

beyond. You will flex your leadership, organizational and talent development skills to assemble a

multidisciplinary team that delivers global impact. You will build and lead the local team and

technology culture, hire and mentor, build new platforms, and grow your career.

You will work in the Experiences Horizontal domain. The platforms and experiences this team

will build will enable us to offer the right set of Experiences Platform to our other teams, ad

suppliers across geos and channels and segments.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 are in the middle of massive tech transformation and replatforming our tech stack to unlock

the scale, speed, agility and craftsmanship.

Our platform vision includes the core tech

fundamentals while also bringing cutting edge technology innovations to create world class

experiences.

What You Will Do:

● Serve as the local technical lead in the critical domain, designing & building a platform

that interfaces with many different systems within and outside Wayfair and partner

globally.

● Play a key role in developing and driving a multi-year technology strategy for

Experiences Platform

● Architect and write code to implement high-quality, scalable, future-proof services that

will have effective system boundaries and will support long-term vision & strategy

● Conduct technical debate across an entire platform and help come to durable

documented conclusions

● Drive high-impact architectural solutions and hands-on development, including

inception, design, execution, and delivery following good design and coding practices

● Obsessively focus on production readiness for the team including testing, monitoring,

deployment, documentation, and proactive troubleshooting

● Identify risks and gaps in technical approaches and propose solutions to meet the

department's technical vision

● Influence and contribute to the department's strategy and roadmap

● Support the growth of other engineers technically by mentoring, pairing, and developing

other opportunities for educationWhat you bring to the table

● 10+ years of experience in engineering, with a preference for candidates with a mix of

start-up and large-company experience

● Hands-on experience driving software transformations within high-growth environments

at scale

● Experienced in architecting and building large-scale, cloud-based, and event-driven

systems across various projects

● Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience driving teams forward and

ability to influence results

Technology Requirements

● GCP target cloud platform, experience at scale.

● Extensive experience in developing front end applications.

● Distributed microservice architectures with well architected domain boundaries

● High volume async messaging architectures

● Large scale relational and NoSQL style data stores

● Common open source platforms, tools and frameworks, eg: Kafka, Kubernetes,

Containerization, Java microservices, GraphQL,NextJS, React.