Staff Software Engineer, Platforms

What You'll Do

• Serve as the front-end platform expert and technical authority for Wayfair's customer-facing Next.js monolith
• Own and drive front-end standards, tooling, and governance across teams in the Customer Tech and Promotes organizations
• Lead the ongoing Next.js and React major version upgrade — diagnose performance regressions, drive resolution, and align contributing teams
• Define and evangelize front-end infrastructure best practices for performance, scalability, and developer experience
• Act as a community leader for Wayfair's front-end engineering community, influencing technical direction beyond your immediate team
• Partner closely with engineering leads across teams to ensure platform consistency and scalability as the codebase grows
• Identify and address architectural gaps, establishing patterns that can scale to hundreds of contributors
• Mentor engineers across seniority levels and contribute to raising the front-end engineering bar across Customer Tech

What We Offer

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to serve as the front-end platform authority for Customer Tech. You'll be embedded at the platform layer, working autonomously to drive technical direction across approximately 200 engineers contributing to a single codebase.

This is a role for someone who thinks at the architect level and leads through technical credibility. You'll act as a community leader and technical authority across Customer Tech and the broader Wayfair front-end engineering community — partnering with engineering leads, mentoring engineers across seniority levels, and establishing patterns that scale to hundreds of contributors.