Software Engineer II

Overview

The Legal Technology team at Wayfair partners with the business to solve problems launch new initiatives and balance risk while facilitating global growth. In order for Wayfair to be able to operate effectively the Legal team needs dedicated resources (engineering product data science) to build tools and automate processes that will scale with the business. This team helps reduce the time spent by our Legal and Merch Compliance teams on low valueadd repetitious and manual tasks. We need to be proactive in identifying potential issues in order to comply with laws and regulations to stay ahead of adverse financial operational or reputational impacts to the business.

Scope

Legal Tech has a broad scope that covers many verticals beyond what is listed below. We are currently focused on two main areas and plan to expand in the future:

1. Product Diligence: We are building processes and tools to improve the quality of our products. All suppliers are required by law or by Wayfairs standards to not only meet those rules and regulations but in many cases to provide proof. Our services are integrated within the entire product lifecycle: verifying new products updates to existing products and scanning our existing catalog if new regulations are introduced. There are numerous high risk categories that we are focused on now that will continue to expand: youth (cribs bunk beds etc.) hazardous goods (lithium batteries coolant etc.) composite wood etc. Verifying these products not only protects Wayfair but more importantly our customers that purchase these products.
2. Supplier Diligence: Wayfair is a platform that allows furniture suppliers to sell their products to the end user customers on our site. We are onboarding new suppliers and need to verify existing suppliers with new requirements. There are for main areas we are focused on now:
   1. Is the business information provided accurate and can we verify that it is a legitimate business (Know Your Business KYB)
   2. Is there a representative of the business that we can verify is associated with this business (Know Your Customer KYC)
   3. Is the bank and payment information accurate and verifiable
   4. Does this supplier have insurance that meets our requirements

As mentioned above these are the areas that were currently focused on but there are multiple other verticals within Legal that we need to expand into: corporate security privacy real estate customs etc.

Responsibilities:

• Work crossfunctionally with different roles and teams such as product management core areas of the business and other engineering teams to understand the problems we need to solve and solution against them in a globally distributed environment.
• Own the entire platforms architecture and help make decisions to drive the technology platform and roadmap for the team to ensure current and future scalability and performance youll be helping us solve some complex architectural problems!Implement and advocate for engineering best practices helping level up the engineers inside and outside your team
• Demonstrate the drive to improve the team at every step whether its leveling up your or the teams knowledge making process improvements or rearchitecting our platform for the next level of scale
• Lead technical debate and decision making ensuring noregret decisions with appreciation for tradeoffs
• Nurture collaborative ways of working that grow the team its members and the product: testing practices TDD pairing/mobbing continuous deployment domaindriven design
• Influence and contribute to the technical and product strategy and roadmap

Requirements:

• 6 years experience in Software Engineering with designing and building large scale platforms.
• Experience leading/supervising and/or mentoring engineers leading code reviews and establishing best engineering practices.
• Passion for leading cross functional projects through collaboration and influencing design decisions.
• Deep understanding of modern programming languages such as Java Python PHP C# Go Scala or similar languages.
• Ability to develop creative solutions with customer experience and scalability on top of mind. Experience developing microservices in highly available and large scale distributed systems.
• Experience deploying solutions into production within GCP AWS Azure or similar cloud platforms
• Experience in developing and deploying services/applications in Kubernetes (K8s) Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with engineers product managers and business stakeholders alike.

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About Wayfair Inc.
Wayfair is one of the worlds largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston or Berlin or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world were reinventing the way people shop for their homes. Through our commitment to industryleading technology and creative problemsolving we are confident that Wayfair will be home to the most rewarding work of your career. If youre looking for rapid growth constant learning and dynamic challenges then youll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.

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