Senior Software Engineer GraphQL Platforms
Senior Software Engineer GraphQL Platforms
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Senior Software Engineer GraphQL Platforms
Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Mountain View CA and will be expected to comply with their teams hybrid work schedule requirements.
Who We Are:
The GraphQL Platform team is at the forefront of that technology transition through building foundational patterns and systems for Federated GraphQL API design data orchestration and application architecture. The team delivers the GraphQL client and service best practices tier0 runtime tools and architecture support necessary for teams across Wayfair to build exceptional clients services and systems. Our team is packed with passionate engineers and we are looking for folks with a keen desire to learn and grow to come join us!
What You Will Do:
- Be a visionary leader providing guidance and mentorship to your team and across the organization on GraphQL in a distributed system and best practices
- Motivate and influence teams to buy into team vision and quarterly roadmap pushing individuals outside of their comfort zones where necessary
- Drive highimpact architectural solutions and handson development including inception design and delivery following good design and coding practices
- Flex your strength and knowledge of GraphQL in a distributed system DevOps service development and support.
- Define and ensure services are built to industry best practices including observability architectural patterns and interteam dependency mechanisms (like SLOs)
- Architect and write code to implement highquality scalable futureproof platform that will have effective system boundaries and will support longterm vision & strategy
- Participate in technical debates within and across teams to help come to durable documented conclusions
- Obsessively focus on production readiness for the team including testing monitoring deployment documentation and proactive troubleshooting
- Identify risks and gaps in technical approaches and propose solutions to meet the teams technical vision
- Work closely with product managers designers and peer engineering teams to define project requirements and plans
- Provide visibility into team results and bottlenecks and drive datadriven action plans
- Work within an Agile culture to foster continuous improvement at the team and departmental level
- Be a multiplier mentor other engineers on the team to improve standards and reduce defects in dynamic environments
What Youll Need:
- 10 years of experience in engineering with a preference for candidates with a mix of startup and largecompany experience.
- eComm domain expertise is a bonus
- 3 years of deep Federated GraphQL experience is required
- Handson experience delivering software within highgrowth environments at scale
- Mastery in crossfunctional consensus building and influencing without given authority
- Experienced in designing and building largescale cloudbased systems across various projects
- Successful background in designing production systems at scale including fault tolerance reliability performance and security
- 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 a modern programming language (such as TypeScript Rust Java or others).
- Experience with one or more common open source platforms tools and framework eg: GraphQL React Java microservices Kafka Kubernetes etc.
- Experience leveraging monitoring and logging technologies (e.g. DataDog).
- Experience leading/supervising and/or mentoring engineers leading code reviews and
- establishing best engineering practices.
Benefits & Perks
- Full health benefits available (Medical Dental Vision HSA/FSA) on day one for eligible employees.
- Nocost access to a virtual expert medical consultation and navigation service.
- Global Traveler Health Insurance through GeoBlue.
- 24/7 access to mental financial physical and emotional wellbeing support plus an enhanced offering of therapy and coaching.
- Automatic enrollment into Basic Life and Accidental Death & Disability Insurance.
- 401(k) matching with immediate vesting.
- Paid Parental Leave Surrogacy & Adoption Reimbursement and Caregiver Services.
- Tuition Reimbursement.
- Wayfair Employee Discount.
- Gym/Fitness Discounts (including Peloton Wellhub and varying regional memberships).
- Exclusive access to thousands of perks & discounts through BenefitHub.
- Yearly match up to $500 for personal donations made by employees to registered 501(c)3 nonprofits.
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:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
