Company Profile:

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, or genetic information

Job description:

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 contract

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.

Qualifications :

12 years of experience in an engineering, with a preference for Candidates with a mix of  start up and large Company experience.

eCommerce 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 a sync 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, API, Aerospike.