Software Engineer III, Infrastructure and Backend Platforms

Wayfair LLC
Boston, MA, United States
about 1 month ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
$159,500.0 - $192,500.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Architectural Patterns Automation of Tests C Sharp (Programming Language) Cloud Computing Computer Engineering DevOps Python (Programming Language) Open Source Technology Cloud Services Scala (Programming Language) Service Development Studio
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Data Logging Aerospike Grafana Backend Event Driven Architecture Containerization Kubernetes Information Technology Apache Kafka Graphql Golang Programming Languages Microservices

Job description

If you love to solve real business problems at scale, in a fast-paced, high growth and agile environment, this is the role for you! What You Will Do

  • Flex your strength and knowledge on Go, Java, DevOps, and service development environments.
  • Define and ensure services are built to industry best practices, including observability, architectural patterns, and inter-team dependency mechanisms (like SLOs)
  • Drive high-impact solutions at a team level, including inception, design, execution, and delivery following good design and coding practices
  • Write code to implement high-quality, scalable, future-proof services that will have effective system boundaries
  • Lead team planning and delivery meetings in a way that actively supports the goals and success of the team
  • Identify risks and gaps in technical approaches and propose solutions to meet the team’s technical vision
  • Work closely with product managers, designers, and peers to define project requirements and execution plans

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in engineering, with a preference for candidates with a mix of start-up and large-company experience. eComm domain expertise is a bonus
  • Hands-on experience delivering software within high-growth environments at scale
  • Experienced in contributing to large-scale, cloud-based systems across various projects
  • Experience operating distributed services at scale, including familiarity with observability tools, logging techniques, troubleshooting, and incident response.
  • Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience driving solutions forward and ability to influence results
  • Expertise with a modern programming language (such as GO, Java, Python, C#, Scala, or others). The team owns systems that leverage several different languages.
  • Experience with one or more common open source platforms, tools and framework, eg: Kafka, Kubernetes, Containerization, Java microservices, GraphQL APIs, Aerospike etc
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience

Nice to Have

  • Experience with Cloud Services and Containerized Infrastructure
  • Experience with devOps and CI/CD systems and best practices
  • Experience with various automated testing and deployment approaches and tools
  • Knowledgeable of microservice architecture and event driven design patterns
  • Technical documentation experience

Benefits & conditions

Tuition reimbursement, Parental leave, Health insurance, 401(k) matching, Paid time off, Employee discount, Vision insurance, Health savings account Full-time Boston, MA 02114

About the company

The Storefront Backend Platform team is responsible for building, maintaining, and supporting the core infrastructure and architecture that Storefront teams use to develop and deploy backend services. While Wayfair continues our technical transformation journey the SF BE Plat team is also out in front doing exploratory work, partnering with the central Infrastructure teams, and crafting service platform norms, tools, and patterns., 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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