Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Bangalore, and will be expected to comply with their teams hybrid work schedule requirements.
We are looking for a passionate Backend Software Engineer to join the Fulfilment Optimisation team. This team builds the platforms that determine how customer orders are fulfilled, optimising for Wayfair profitability and customer delight. A big part of our work revolves around enhancing and scaling customer-facing platforms that provide fulfillment information on our websites, starting at the top of the customer funnel on the search pages all the way through orders being delivered. Throughout this customer journey, we are responsible for maintaining an accurate representation of our dynamic supply chain, determining how different products will fit into boxes, predicting how these boxes will flow through warehouses and trucks, and ultimately surfacing the information our customers need to inform their decision and the details our suppliers and carriers require to successfully execute on the promises made to our customers. We do all of this in milliseconds, thousands of times per second.
What You Will Do:
Be a visionary leader providing guidance and mentorship to your team and across the organization on Java microservice development and best practices
Motivate and influence teams to buy into team vision and quarterly roadmap, pushing individuals outside of their comfort zones where necessary
Drive high-impact architectural solutions and hands-on development, including inception, design, execution, and delivery following good design and coding practices
Flex your strength and knowledge on Java, DevOps, and microservice development.
Define and ensure services are built to industry best practices, including observability, architectural patterns, and inter-team dependency mechanisms (like SLOs)
Work closely with architects and other teams across Storefront to breakdown an existing PHP monolith into well defined Java Microservices with clean boundaries and clear API contracts
Architect and write code to implement high-quality, scalable, future-proof services that will have effective system boundaries and will support long-term vision & strategy
Obsessively focus on production readiness for the team including testing, monitoring, deployment, documentation, and proactive troubleshooting
Work closely with product managers, designers, and peer engineering teams to define project requirements and execution plans
Provide visibility into team results and bottlenecks, and drive data-driven action plans
Work within an Agile culture to foster continuous improvement at the team and departmental level
Proven success in mentoring junior engineers to improve standards and reduce defects in dynamic environments
What you bring to the table
10+ 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 driving software transformations within high-growth environments at scale
Mastery in cross-functional consensus building and influencing without given authority
Experienced in architecting and building large-scale, cloud-based, and event-driven systems across various projects
Successful background in designing production systems at scale including fault tolerance, reliability, performance, and security
Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience driving teams forward and ability to influence results
Technology Requirements
GCP target cloud platform, experience with AWS/Azure at scale
Distributed microservice architectures with well architected domain boundaries
High volume async messaging architectures
Large scale relational and NoSQL style data stores
Deep understanding of data processing and data pipelines.
Common open source platforms, tools and framework, eg: Kafka, Kubernetes, Containerization, Java microservices, GraphQL APIs, Aerospike etc
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