Software Engineer II - Frontend Engineer

Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Bangalore, India and will be expected to comply with their team's hybrid work schedule requirements.

Who We Are

Wayfair is one of the world's largest destinations for the home, as the company shares and celebrates progress across environmental, social, and governance topics. 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 carry 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.

We deliver a best-in-class customer experience in the furniture and home space. To maintain our high level of delivery standards and meet our customer's needs, the Wayfair dedicated operations team plays a key role in improving customer satisfaction and driving repeat business. We've been busy building a best-in-class logistics network that allows us to delight customers by speeding up deliveries, adding services, and reducing damage using our physical, asset-based warehouses.

Responsibilities

• Work with back-end engineers, UX Designers, and Product managers to understand requirements and translate design to implementation.
• Develop ready-to-ship code that is tested rigorously and follows industry best practices.
• Engage in understating requirements and their complexities and provide well-thought-out effort estimates for your tasks.
• Help in evaluating front-end technology choices for the supply chain division, introduce front-end engineering standards that other engineers can adhere to.
• Contribute to documentation and knowledge-sharing sessions for the team and the wider organization.
• Help improve software engineering practices and lead initiatives to make the systems scalable, extensible and fault tolerant.
• Come up with proof of concept solutions to help decide technology outcomes and trade-offs.
• Take complete ownership of all your tasks, manage dependencies, and ensure they are completed in time.
• Adapt quickly to changes and think out of the box solutions when required.
  
  

Requirements

• Must have a minimum of 3+ years of work experience in Web development .
• Must have strong hands-on development experience in front-end technologies including HTML5 JavaScript, TypeScript & React .
• Proficiency in working on React based tools such as Webpack, Enzyme, Redux, Flux and Web Components .
• Strong fundamentals in web standards, browser APIs, DOM Rendering, async programming, troubleshooting and application performance tuning.
• Experience in Node.js and frameworks available for it such as Express.
• Hands-on experience in object-oriented software development.
• Must have experience working on entire SDLC - exposure to using tools for version control (Git), build processes, testing and release, CI/CD such as Jenkins, Gitlab, Circle.
• Strong customer passion, ownership and drive to enhance customer experience.
• Passion for leading a large, cross-cutting technical initiative to delivery, cross-functional consensus building and influencing design decisions .
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading code reviews.
• Proficient in designing systems at scale and relational database schema design .
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders alike.
• Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques.
  
  

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. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please let us know by completing our Accomodations for Applicants form.

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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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The above base pay range may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills and experience. For internal candidates, compensation determinations will be made based on your current position / level, your location, and the new position according to Wayfair's internal mobility policy. As you move through the internal interview process, your recruiter will be able to provide additional details regarding your specific compensation. Please note, the terms of internal offers, including the salary offered, are not negotiable.