Software Engineer II, Infrastructure and Backend Platforms

About the role

The Storefront Backend Platform team is responsible for building, maintaining, and supporting the core infrastructure and architecture that Storefront teams use to develop and deploy backend services. While Wayfair continues our technical transformation journey, the SF BE Plat team is also out in front doing exploratory work, partnering with the central Infrastructure teams, and crafting service platform norms, tools, and patterns.

Responsibilities

• Flex your strength and knowledge on Go, Java, DevOps, and service development environments.
• Contribute to developing platforms services that are built to industry best practices, including observability, architectural patterns, and reliability.
• Write code to implement high-quality, scalable, future-proof services that will have effective system boundaries.
• Participate in team planning and delivery meetings in a way that actively supports the goals and success of the team.
• Identify risks and gaps in your assigned work and surface them to team leads.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and peers to define project requirements and execution plans.

Requirements

• 3+ 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 delivering software within high-growth environments at scale.
• Experienced in designing and building large-scale, cloud-based systems across various projects.
• 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 one or more modern programming language (such as Python, Java, C#, Scala, GO, or others).
• Experience with one or more common open source platforms, tools and framework, eg: Kafka, Kubernetes, Containerization, Java microservices, GraphQL APIs, Aerospike etc.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Qualifications

• Nice to have: Experience with Cloud Services and Containerized Infrastructure, Experience with devOps and CI/CD systems and best practices, Experience with various automated testing and deployment approaches and tools, Knowledgeable of microservice architecture and event driven design patterns, Technical documentation experience.

Benefits

Annual Base Pay: USD 150,500.00 - USD 161,500.00. The range may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills and experience.

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.

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