Senior Software Engineering Manager - Storefront

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

Job Description:

Who We Are:

Wayfair.com is visited by millions of people daily shopping across more than 18 million products. By partnering with Product, Experience Design, Analytics and business leaders across Wayfair, our Engineering teams ensure that were building technology that solves important customer problems in elegant, scalable, measurable ways. Our software engineering teams work to make an extremely complex process seamless for our customers. Shopping for your home should be exciting, and we want every customer to come away feeling like they've found the perfect item for them.

Our Storefront Engineering Org is currently hiring for Senior Engineering Managers on the following teams:

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• Loyalty & Finance
  
  
  
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  • By providing a broad suite of financing products and seamlessly integrating them onsite, we achieve our vision to ensure every customer has an affordable, rewarding, and stress-free means to purchase the products they want.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
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    • Registry
      
      
      
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      • For many couples, getting married marks a critical moment when they begin to prioritize investing in the home. We want to ensure Wayfair is front and center during this pivotal life stage, building a relationship with couples that will span many milestones from moves, to having children, to renovations
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
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        • Shipping
          
          
          
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          • In order for customers to enjoy their product we have to make sure that they arrive as expected. The Storefront Shipping & Returns team handles the shipping & returns experiences for all Wayfair customers. We partner with many other teams at Wayfair to create an easy and convenient shipping experience that will bring customers back again and again
            
            
            
            
            What Youll Do:
            
            
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            • Manage with cross-functional scope including tech leads and managers
              
            • Oversee multiple sprint teams each ranging from 3-6 software engineers
              
            • Build a capable team with strong leadership through effective headcount planning, hiring, on-boarding, retention, and continuous improvement
              
            • Be responsible for owning features developed by your team in each phase of a project design, implementation, code review, QA and deployment to production
              
            • Partner closely with product owners and stakeholders to build and maintain a robust project roadmap
              
            • Break down complex initiatives into concrete iterative pieces
              
            • Seek out, define, and evolve best practices within teams area of focus as well as initiatives that raise the standards across the organization
              
              What Youll Need:
              
              
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              • Mastery leading or managing a team of software engineers and delivery of business impacting applications
                
              • Prior hands on experience designing, building and maintaining applications within the full customer facing web stack
                
              • Understanding of software architecture to help empower software developers to build new features with reliability and scalability in mind
                
              • Experience in cross-functional consensus building and influencing without authority
                
              • Mastery in designing systems at scale
                
              • Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques
                
              • Expertise with a modern programming language (such as Python, Java, JavaScript, PHP, C#, Scala, GO, or others)
                
              • Mastery of writing SQL queries against a relational database
                
                Wayfair 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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