Software Engineering Manager, Backend Fintech & Loyalty

Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Bangalore, and will be expected to comply with their team's hybrid work schedule requirements.

Wayfair runs the largest custom e-commerce large parcel network in the United States, approximately 1.6 million square meters of logistics space. The nature of the network is inherently a highly variable ecosystem that requires flexible, reliable, and resilient systems to operate efficiently.

Bengaluru is home to our brand new, strategic technology delivery center and will be critical to achieving our future growth plans. We are looking for best in class Engineers to come in and help scale our technical products and teams alike as we continue on our path to be the world’s number one online destination for the home. As one of the early members of the team here in our strategic technology delivery center, you will partner closely with our technology and business leaders from around the world to help build the platform to support our growth plans to $50B USD and beyond in the next 3 to 5 years.

The team in the Bengaluru delivery center can work across multiple domains that drive speed and convenience for the customer and cost efficiency across the full value chain. The work we do at Wayfair means we have to move quickly, collaborating with the best and brightest engineers, creatives, product managers, data scientists, and analysts to discover, build, and scale world-class software products.

If you love to solve real business problems at scale, in a fast-paced, high growth and agile environment, this is the role for you!

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
• Build a capable team with strong leadership through effective headcount planning, hiring, on-boarding, retention, and continuous improvement
• Motivate and influence teams to buy into team vision and quarterly roadmap, pushing individuals outside of their comfort zones where necessary
• Be responsible for owning features developed by your team in each phase of a project – design, implementation, code review, QA and deployment to production
• Flex your strength and knowledge on Java, DevOps, and microservice development.
• 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
• Obsessively focus on production readiness for the team including testing, monitoring, deployment, documentation, and proactive troubleshooting
• 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
• 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

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.