Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Mountain View, CA and will be expected to comply with their team's hybrid work schedule requirements.
The base pay for this position is $207,000 - $230,000 per year. The base pay offered may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Who We Are:The GraphQL Platform team is at the forefront of that technology transition, through building foundational patterns and systems for Federated GraphQL API design, data orchestration, and application architecture. The team delivers the GraphQL client and service best practices, tier-0 runtime, tools, and architecture support necessary for teams across Wayfair to build exceptional clients, services, and systems. Our team is packed with passionate engineers, and we are looking for folks with a keen desire to learn and grow to come join us!
What You Will Do:- Be a visionary leader providing guidance and mentorship to your team and across the organization on GraphQL in a distributed system, 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 of GraphQL in a distributed system, DevOps, service development, and support.
- Define and ensure services are built to industry best practices, including observability, architectural patterns, and inter-team dependency mechanisms (like SLOs)
- Architect and write code to implement high-quality, scalable, future-proof platform that will have effective system boundaries and will support long-term vision & strategy
- Participate in technical debates within and across teams to help come to durable documented conclusions
- Obsessively focus on production readiness for the team including testing, monitoring, deployment, documentation, and proactive troubleshooting
- Identify risks and gaps in technical approaches and propose solutions to meet the team’s technical vision
- 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
- Be a multiplier, mentor other engineers on the team to improve standards and reduce defects in dynamic environments
- 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
- 3+ years of deep Federated GraphQL experience is required
- Hands-on experience delivering software within high-growth environments at scale
- Mastery in cross-functional consensus building and influencing without given authority
- Experienced in designing and building large-scale, cloud-based systems across various projects
- Successful background in designing production systems at scale including fault tolerance, reliability, performance, and security
- Experience operating distributed services at scale, including familiarity with observability tools, logging techniques, troubleshooting, and incident response.
- Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience driving solutions forward and ability to influence results
- Expertise with a modern programming language (such as TypeScript, Rust, Java, or others).
- Experience with one or more common open source platforms, tools and framework, eg: GraphQL, Node.js, React, Java microservices, Kafka, Kubernetes, etc.
- Experience leveraging monitoring and logging technologies (e.g. DataDog).
- Experience leading/supervising and/or mentoring engineers, leading code reviews, and
- establishing best engineering practices.
- Full health benefits available (Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA/FSA) on day one for eligible employees.
- No-cost access to 2nd.MD, a virtual expert medical consultation and navigation service.
- Global Traveler Health Insurance through GeoBlue.
- 24/7 access to mental, financial, physical and emotional wellbeing support, plus an enhanced offering of therapy and coaching.
- Automatic enrollment into Basic Life and Accidental Death & Disability Insurance.
- 401(k) matching with immediate vesting.
- Paid Parental Leave, Surrogacy & Adoption Reimbursement and Caregiver Services.
- Tuition Reimbursement.
- Wayfair Employee Discount.
- Gym/Fitness Discounts (including Peloton, Wellhub and varying regional memberships).
- Exclusive access to thousands of perks & discounts through BenefitHub.
- Yearly match up to $500 for personal donations made by employees to registered 501(c)(3) nonprofits.
The salary range for this position is $207,000 to $230,000/year however, base pay offered may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package in addition to a full range of medical, financial and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered.
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 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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Wayfair is the destination for all things home: helping everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home. From expert customer service, to the development of tools that make the shopping process easier, to carrying one of the widest and deepest selections of items for every space, style, and budget, Wayfair gives everyone the power to create spaces that are just right for them.
