Who We Are
Wayfair believes everyone should live in a home they love. Our innovative supply chain technology makes it possible for shoppers to quickly and easily find exactly what they want from a selection of more than 14 million items across home furnishings, décor, home improvement, housewares and more. Partnering with Product, Experience Design, Analytics and business leaders across Wayfair, our Engineering teams ensure that we’re building technology that solves important customer problems in elegant, scalable, measurable ways.
The Quality & Recovery team design, build and support the software for assessing and monetizing all returns at Wayfair. At various stages on the reverse logistics journey, our applications assist warehouse associates to identify, assess, and assign the optimum recovery sales channels for returned and damaged items based on a mix of manual and automated data capture, predicted profits and other heuristics.
We filter the trash, to find the treasure.
What You’ll Do
- Work closely with product and business stakeholders to suggest and develop the best features for our software applications to minimize waste and maximize recovery in the returns and quality control domains
- Outcome focused mindset - drive toward the business value you have identified
- Drive high impact architectural decisions and hands-on development, including inception, design, execution, and delivery following good design and coding practices
- Help grow other engineers technically by mentoring, pairing, and developing other opportunities for education
- Bring the best of software standards to bear on the team’s day to day work
- Exalt our data as a first class citizen in everything we do
- Be a technical domain leader in the reverse logistics space
- Lead cross-functional integrations with automated warehouse systems and realize the impact is has on safety, efficiency and customer satisfaction
- Continuously rethink and reevaluate the status quo, even when it argues with your/our past ideas
What You’ll Need
- Broad experience of developing software to directly solve operational business problems
- Full stack experience developing end user facing web and mobile applications (6+ years)
- Experience developing Python and Faust applications, maturing them to high levels of stability and robustness (4+ years)
- Experience building applications with SQL based databases (Postgres)
- Experience with Test Automation and Test Authoring
- Experience with Continuous Integration (CI/CD) practices and tools (Buildkite, Jenkins, etc.)
- Experience architecting solutions leveraging distributed infrastructure (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Experience leveraging monitoring and logging technologies (e.g. DataDog, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, etc.)
- Domain Driven Design and Test Driven Design practices are a big plus
- Experience in Warehousing, Supply Chain Management and reverse logistics are highly advantageous
Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities
Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected]
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About Wayfair Inc.
Wayfair is one of the world’s 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, 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.
No matter who you are, Wayfair is a place you can call home. We’re 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. That’s why we’re 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, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.
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