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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer II, Backend Platforms - **Company:** Wayfair LLC - **Location:** Boston, MA, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $150,500.0 - $172,500.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** 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, Data Logging, Aerospike, Grafana, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Containerization, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Apache Kafka, Graphql, Golang, Microservices - **Published:** July 17, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=abb3ecb4645f0865 ## About the Role * 3+ 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 designing and building 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 one or more modern programming language (such as Python, Java, C#, Scala, GO, or others). * 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 ## Description 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. 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. * Contribute to developing platforms services that are built to industry best practices, including observability, architectural patterns, and reliability * Write code to implement high-quality, scalable, future-proof services that will have effective system boundaries * Participate in team planning and delivery meetings in a way that actively supports the goals and success of the team * Identify risks and gaps in your assigned work and surface them to team leads * Work closely with product managers, designers, and peers to define project requirements and execution plans ## Related Videos - [Go with the Flow: Stop the Leaks Before Your Memory's a Waterfall!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100073-go-with-the-flow-stop-the-leaks-before-your-memory-s-a-waterfall) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Putting the Graph In GraphQL With The Neo4j GraphQL Library](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/257-putting-the-graph-in-graphql-with-the-neo4j-graphql-library) - [Empowering Thousands of Developers: Our Journey to an Internal Developer Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1519-empowering-thousands-of-developers-our-journey-to-an-internal-developer-platform) - [#90DaysOfDevOps - The DevOps Learning Journey](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/548-90daysofdevops-the-devops-learning-journey) - [Scoring 2000 Products per Request: Performance Pitfalls in Golang](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2073-scoring-2000-products-per-request-performance-pitfalls-in-golang) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [How Much FAANG Companies Actually Pay Software Engineers in 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/230-how-much-faang-companies-actually-pay-software-engineers-in-2025) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Software Engineer Salary London](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/252-software-engineer-salary-london) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated)