Software Engineering Intern - Summer 2025
Software Engineering Intern - Summer 2025
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Software Engineering Internship Summer 2025
June 2 2025 August 8 2025
Boston MA
Our Engineering team within our Technology organization is building the future of home and looking for dynamic hardworking and talented students to join us in Summer 2025 for a 10 week internship from June 2 2025August 8 2025. As a Software Engineering Intern you will dive into a number of complex technical projects and gain a better understanding of our business. You will have the opportunity to work within one of the following groups:
Global Supplier Tech: Wayfair sells millions of products and this team owns all the data tools and systems that create and manage the content on the site related to each product. We build tools for our thousands of suppliers to send us content we need to be able to sell their products on site. This team makes sure the customer has the information they need to be confident when purchasing for their home. Within Catalog there are also teams such as pricing & competitive intelligence engineering merchandising & media engineering and virtual media.
Platforms Tech: Responsible for the entire Wayfair website and all backend components that fuels and powers production. You can be an embedded engineer or a platform engineer. Embedded engineers work directly with engineering verticals to build and consult in building new initiatives. Platform engineers are subject matter experts for languages and engineering tools. You can expect to work with engineers that thrive in collaboration and expertise in one of Wayfairs supported languages or frameworks including Java .NET Python PHP Backstage Buildkite or SonarQube. You can expect to work with engineers that thrive in collaboration and expertise in one of Wayfairs supported languages (Java .NET Python PHP Javascript with some Golang and Rust) and frameworks (Backstage Buildkite SonarQube Puppet Terraform and others).
SMART: Provides the core platforms and services that allow our customers to discover & buy the products they love. Our systems leverage Wayfairs extensive customer and product data to deliver trusted and valuable recommendations in realtime using custom machine learning models.
Storefront Tech: We develop the features web services and data architecture that provide a worldclass shopping engine for our millions of unique daily customers. We work in small crossfunctional agile teams to develop deploy and iterate on new experiences by partnering with Product Experience Design Analytics and business leaders across Wayfair. Our Websites and Native Apps are built on a foundation of highlyscalable technologies and supports tens of millions of products. We tackle exciting problems that are reshaping how people discover find purchase and have goods delivered to their homes. We are a diverse multidisciplinary team of worldclass engineers with a highly visible workstream that drives significant impact.
Supply Chain Retail Tech: Develops the complex groundbreaking logistics system to help move the products Wayfair sells from suppliers to warehouses to customers. Supply Chain is responsible for international transportation warehouse management and the customer delivery network making it all possible.
What Youll Do:
- You will work on individual and group projects focused on the full project lifecycle
- You will collaborate with business leaders and key stakeholders to brainstorm on how to solve the challenge
- Currently pursuing a Bachelors with the expectation that degree will be obtained between December 2025 and August 2026
- Must be returning to the course of study following completion of the internship
Preferred Qualifications:
- You will be exposed to a broad spectrum of technologies and programming languages
- We will help you improve your designs and jumpstart your learning
- You will have accessibility to technology/engineering leadership who want to hear your ideas
- You will participate in events with interns across the business! Past events include a Red Sox game trivia night scavenger hunt welcome dinner networking with leadership and more!
- You will receive professional development training to improve your soft and hard skills
What Youll Need:
Basic Qualifications:
- You are currently enrolled in a fulltime undergraduate degree program in Computer Science or a related technical field
- You have a proven track record of strong academic performance.
- You may have experience with full stack and/or mobile development.
- You may have knowledge and experience working with object oriented programming languages.
- You may have experience or exposure to SQL JavaScript and HTML Python HTML/CSS (this is not required for all teams)
- You have an interest in working with big data and machine learning
- You enjoy autonomy and the opportunity to make a project or tool on your own
- You have strong communication skills
Wayfair Internship Program
Our Summer Internship Program is a paid fulltime program in our Boston Massachusetts office for 10 weeks June 2August 8. No matter who you are we want Wayfair to be a place where you feel at home. We offer high impactprojects mentorship and communitybuilding activities to all of our interns. Throughout the program we provide interns with the opportunity to engage in social and community building activities including:
- A calendar of intern events including social networking professional development and a leadership dialogue series
- Formalized mentorship program along with an assigned reporting manager for impactful professional development and feedback
- Skillsbased training
- Dialogue events with senior leaders to provide a holistic view of all functions at Wayfair
- Coffee chat opportunities for interns to get to know one another
- Volunteer opportunities
- Internwide innovation project designed to teach interns skills for handling ambiguous business problems
- Intern Appreciation Day celebration
- Events throughout Boston which allow interns to explore what the city has to offer including a Red Sox game and Boston Harbor boat cruise
An Important Note about Wayfairs InOffice Policy:
All Bostonbased interns coops and corporate employees will be in office in a hybrid capacity. Employees will work in the office on designated days Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday and work remotely Monday and Friday.
Massachusetts Applicants: I understand that it is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
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 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.
No matter who you are Wayfair is a place you can call home. Were a community of innovators risktakers and trailblazers who celebrate our differences and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger smarter and wellpositioned 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. Thats why were 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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Required Experience:
Intern
Employment Type
Intern
