Software Engineer I

Wayfair LLC
Boston, United States of America
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Internship / Graduate position
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Junior
Compensation
$ 130K

Job location

Boston, United States of America

Tech stack

Java
JavaScript
.NET
PHP
Big Data
Mobile Application Development
Code Review
Computer Engineering
Software Debugging
Python
Machine Learning
Object-Oriented Software Development
Software Tools
Software Engineering
SonarQube
SQL Databases
Backend
Information Technology
Puppet
Terraform
Go

Job description

  • Support designing and perform hands-on building of applications that are reliable, scalable and easy to maintain
  • Ensure that engineering quality standards are met within your team
  • Contribute to architectural and code review discussions that impact our engineering ecosystem
  • Collaborate with leads and engineers on your team 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, Platforms Tech: Responsible for the entire Wayfair website and all backend components that fuels and powers production. You can be an embedded engineer or a platform engineer. Embedded engineers work directly with engineering verticals to build and consult in building new initiatives. Platform engineers are subject matter experts for languages and engineering tools. You can expect to work with engineers that thrive in collaboration and expertise in one of Wayfair's supported languages or frameworks including Java, .NET, Python, PHP, Backstage, Buildkite, or SonarQube. You can expect to work with engineers that thrive in collaboration and expertise in one of Wayfair's supported languages (Java, .NET, Python, PHP, Javascript, with some Golang and Rust) and frameworks (Backstage, Buildkite, SonarQube, Puppet, Terraform and others).

Customer Tech: Customer Tech owns the end-to-end shopping journey for our customers across web and native apps, from search and browse through add-to-cart. As an engineer here, you might work on Storefront experiences or SMART (Search & Recommendations) systems, building high-scale services and UIs that help customers discover products, compare options, and feel confident hitting "Place Order.".

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.

Requirements

  • 0-3 years of transferable experience in a corporate environment, including internship and co-op experience.
  • Bachelor's degree.
  • 1-3 years of transferable software development experience (full stack and/or mobile development) in a corporate environment, including internship and co-op experience
  • Bachelors in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or another related technical discipline
  • Knowledge and experience working with object oriented programming languages
  • Experience or exposure to SQL, Java, and Python, * Excellent team player with a passion for collaboration
  • Familiarity with creating software tools and functionality, debugging code, and successfully incorporating feedback into your work
  • Strong skills in solving complex problems with simple abstract solutions
  • An interest in working with big data and machine learning
  • Experience with using cloud platforms to solve problems
  • Experience working in agile environments
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to take on projects or tool autonomously

Benefits & conditions

  • Full health benefits available (Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA/FSA) on day one for eligible employees.
  • No-cost access to 2nd.MD, a virtual expert medical consultation and navigation service.
  • Global Traveler Health Insurance through GeoBlue.
  • 24/7 access to mental, financial, physical and emotional wellbeing support, plus an enhanced offering of therapy and coaching.
  • Automatic enrollment into Basic Life and Accidental Death & Disability Insurance.
  • 401(k) matching with immediate vesting.
  • Paid Parental Leave, Surrogacy & Adoption Reimbursement and Caregiver Services.
  • Tuition Reimbursement.
  • Wayfair Employee Discount.
  • Gym/Fitness Discounts.
  • Exclusive access to thousands of perks & discounts through BenefitHub.
  • Yearly match up to $500 for personal donations made by employees to registered 501(c)(3) nonprofits.

Purpose & Inclusion at Wayfair:

At Wayfair, we pride ourselves on fostering an environment where every individual experiences a fair and equitable employee journey. We are committed to developing targeted resources that raise awareness around inclusion and eliminate barriers, ensuring Wayfair provides a fair and inclusive workplace experience for everyone.

Social Impact & Responsibility:

At Wayfair, we focus on helping people on their journey to home - specifically those who have lost their way from home. We do this by leveraging our best assets, such as collaborating with leading nonprofit organizations, coordinating in-kind product donations, empowering our employees to get involved through paid volunteer time off programs, and encouraging our customers to donate. This multi-faceted approach allows us to support communities in need in authentic ways that align with Wayfair's broader mission of helping everyone, anywhere create their sense of home.

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.

About the company

Wayfair is continuing to expand our commitment to hiring and supporting talent early in their careers, focusing on filling opportunities with entry level candidates who have 0-3 years of work experience. We are continually recruiting candidates for this position on a rolling basis as we have a high volume of openings that become available., 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? Wayfair is looking for candidates who are passionate about programming, and have strong core fundamentals. 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: 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 one of the world's largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston, 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.

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