Software Engineer II

Wayfair; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayfair Bengaluru is seeking a backend software engineer to drive technical leadership and deliver robust distributed web applications. You will work closely with product managers, designers, and operations, contributing across design, implementation, testing, and deployment.

You will mentor other engineers, advocate best practices (SOLID, TDD, GRASP, YAGNI), and help shape the team's roadmap while building scalable Java services with Spring Boot and modern CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in backend software engineering and distributed web apps.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• Proven technical leadership and hands‑on development.
• Experience building web services with Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Buildkite, Jenkins).
• Experience with distributed infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with SQL Server, Aerospike and Redis.
• Experience with monitoring/logging (Datadog, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB).

Responsibilities

• Be a technical evangelist within the team.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and operations.
• Hands‑on development from inception to delivery.
• Ensure production readiness with testing, monitoring, and docs.
• Identify risks and propose solutions to meet goals.
• Create proposals and plans to gain department support.
• Influence team strategy and roadmap.
• Mentor and grow other engineers.

Skills

Backend software engineering

Java

Spring Boot

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

SQL Server

NoSQL (Aerospike, Redis)

Monitoring/logging (Datadog/Elast

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE

Tools

Buildkite

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Be a technical evangelist within the team you work with.
• Work in a highly collaborative environment, interacting closely with other software engineers, product managers, designers, and operations to identify opportunities and implement solutions.
• Hands‑on development, including inception, design, execution, and delivery following good design, coding practices and engineering rigour.
• Obsessively focus on quality and production readiness for the team, including testing, monitoring, deployment, documentation, support and proactive troubleshooting of the deliverables owned and delivered.
• Identify risks and gaps in technical approaches and propose solutions to meet team and project goals.
• Create proposals and action plans to garner support across the department.
• Influence and contribute to the team's strategy and roadmap.
• Help grow other engineers technically by sharing, pairing, and developing other opportunities for education.
• Continuously rethink and reevaluate the status quo, even when it argues with your/our past ideas.

Requirements:

• 3‑5 years of experience in backend software engineering, architecting and implementing robust, distributed web applications.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Track record of technical leadership for teams following software development best practices(e. g., SOLID, TDD, GRASP, YAGNI, etc. ).
• Track record of being ahands‑on developer efficiently building technically sound systems.
• Experience building web services with Java and Springboot.
• Experience with Continuous Integration (CI/CD) practices and tools (Buildkite, Jenkins, etc. ).
• Experience architecting solutions leveraging distributed infrastructure (e. g., Docker, Kubernetes, etc. ).
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server, Aerospike, Redis.
• Experience leveraging monitoring and logging technologies (e. g., Datadog, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, etc. ).