Sr. Engineering Manager, Search & Recommendations

Company: Wayfair
Location: Boston
Posted on: September 17, 2020

Job Description:

Senior Engineer ManagerWayfairs Search and Recommendations team provides the core platforms and services that allow our customers to discover the products they love. Our systems leverage Wayfairs extensive customer and product data to deliver trusted and valuable recommendations and results in real time using custom machine learning models. Our services are called over a billion times a day. We provide both an essential service for Wayfair, but also serve as a key lever for growth and customer value. Were looking for an experienced engineering manager to join us and lead one of our core product recommendations workstreams. The platform, models, and services this team owns determine the bulk of products we recommend and drive outsized value for Wayfair and our customers. While this team is already delivering substantial results, we are just getting started and want an engineering manager to help us scale, accelerate, and advance the state of the art for ML based recommendations.What You'll Do

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• Grow, manage, and develop a team of 5-15 engineers.
  
• Work with a broader highly collaborative cross-functional team that includes product managers, data scientists, and analysts.
  
• Own the technical vision, roadmap, and platforms for your workstream.
  
• Work with a variety of technologies, including Java, Python, Hive, Spark, Kafka, Aerospike, Airflow, RESTful web services, gRPC, Kubernetes, and GCP.
  
• Build platforms and services that allow us to make realtime ML powered decisions.
  
• Deliver direct measurable results for our business and customers through improved product recommendations.
  
  
  What You'll Need
  
  
  
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  • At least 7 years of experience in a senior engineer or technical lead role.
    
  • At least 4 years experience of managing engineers.
    
  • Experience developing and designing scalable distributed systems with deep understanding of object oriented design, modern program languages, and design patterns.
    
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with engineers, product managers, data scientists, analysts and business stakeholders.
    
  • Experience developing and designing recommendation systems and productionalizing ML models for real time decisions is a plus.
    
    
    About UsWayfair is one of the worlds 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, were 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 youre looking for rapid growth, constant learning, and dynamic challenges, then youll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking. No matter who you are, Wayfair is a place you can call home. Were 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. Thats why were 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, or genetic information.Apply Now

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