Software Engineer II, Infrastructure and Backend Platforms

Wayfair; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Holidays

Full Health Benefits

401K Matching

Employee Discount

Mental Health Support

Paid Volunteer Work

Job summary

Wayfair in Boston is looking for a Backend Engineer to develop and maintain core infrastructure for its Storefront team. The successful candidate will use Go, Java, and tools like Kubernetes to build scalable services in a dynamic environment.

Ideal applicants have experience delivering high-quality software and a passion for solving complex problems. The position offers numerous health and wellness benefits along with opportunities for professional development.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in engineering, preferably in e-commerce.
• Hands-on experience delivering software in high-growth environments.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence results.

Responsibilities

• Develop platform services following industry best practices.
• Write scalable, high-quality code for backend services.
• Identify risks in your work and communicate them effectively.

Skills

Go

Java

DevOps

E-commerce

Python

Cloud-based systems

Distributed services

Containerization

Microservices

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

GraphQL APIs

Job description

Who We Are

At Wayfair we are well on the way to becoming the world’s number one, online destination for all things home. Our core belief is that everyone should live in a home they love. We make this possible by ensuring our 24 million customers have all the technology and innovation they need at their fingertips, to give them access to our more than 33 million products, which are provided by our 23,000 awesome global suppliers. In the Storefront team, we are the first impression of a customer’s shopping experience; we own the design and implementation of the customer-facing website. We partner with Product, Experience Design, Analytics and business leaders across Wayfair; our Storefront Engineering teams ensure that we’re building technology that solves important customer problems in elegant, scalable, measurable ways.

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.

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

• Flex your strength and knowledge on Go, Java, DevOps, and service development environments.
• Contribute to developing platform 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.

What You Will Need

• 3+ years of experience in engineering, with a preference for candidates with a mix of start-up and large-company experience. E‑commerce 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(s) such as Python, Java, C#, Scala, Go, or others.
• Experience with one or more common open-source platforms, tools and frameworks (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.

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.

Why You’ll Love Wayfair

• Time Off:
  • Paid Holidays
  • Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Health & Wellness:
  • Full Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA/FSA)
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Protection (Short Term & Long Term Disability)
  • Global Wellbeing: Gym/Fitness discounts (including US Peloton, Global ClassPass, and various regional gym memberships)
  • Mental Health Support (Global Mental Health, Global Wayhealthy Recordings)
  • Caregiver Services
• Financial Growth & Security:
  • 401K Matching (Employee Matching Program)
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Financial Health Education (Knowledge of Financial Education - KOFE)
  • Tax Advantaged Accounts
• Family Support:
  • Family Planning Support
  • Parental Leave
  • Global Surrogacy & Adoption Policy
• Professional Development & Recognition:
  • Rewards & Recognition
  • Global Employee Anniversary Awards
  • Paid Volunteer Work
• Unique Perks:
  • Employee Discount
  • U.S. Bluebikes Membership
  • Global Pod Outings
• Work/Life Balance:
  • Emphasizing a supportive & flexible work environment that encourages a balance between personal and professional commitments

Equal Employment Opportunity

Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, we 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. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please let us know.

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