L1 Software Engineer - Experienced Graduates

May July 2025 Start Dates

Location: Toronto CA

This is a Toronto CAbased opportunity with a 3 day in office expectation.

Wayfair is continuing to expand our commitment to hiring and supporting talent early in their careers focusing on filling opportunities with experienced graduates who have 13 years of experience.

Wayfair is on a mission to find the most talented engineers entering the tech world! Do you love innovating and creating new tools from scratch Were looking for engineers who love sharing ideas collaborating to improve them and being a part of the full software development process. Our engineers are enthusiastic problem solvers and our teams are highly collaborative.

Wayfair is looking for candidates who are passionate about programming and have strong core fundamentals. If you feel confident in your knowledge of object oriented design data structures & algorithms and your ability to grow your skills over time please apply! We want to connect with developers who are eager to work in a highly collaborative team and add to Wayfairs culture. You will have the opportunity to work on one of the following teams:

Employee & Enterprise Technology: Builds and improves the software that directly impacts customers customer service sales finance operations and accounting talent management and external vendors. This team is responsible for all the tools and processes to support business critical operations at Wayfair along with supporting the continued enhancement and scaling capabilities of these systems.

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.

Search and Recommendations Tech: 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 Need:

Basic Qualifications

• 13 years of transferable software development experience in a corporate environment including internship and coop experience
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or another related technical discipline
• Knowledge and experience working with object oriented programming languages
• Experience or exposure to SQL Java and Python

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent team player with a passion for collaboration
• Familiarity with creating software tools and functionality debugging code and successfully incorporating feedback into your work
• Strong skills in solving complex problems with simple abstract solutions
• An interest in working with big data and machine learning
• Experience with using cloud platforms to solve problems
• Experience working in agile environments
• Strong communication skills and the ability to take on projects or tool autonomously

What Youll Do:

• Responsible for designing and being handson in building applications that are reliable scalable and easy to maintain
• Ensure the quality of engineering direction across multiple teams within the organization
• Contribute to architectural and code review discussions that impact our engineering ecosystem
• Define standards to raise the bar of the teams youll be working with
• Collaborate with leads and engineers across multiple teams to solve a wide variety of business and technical problems
• Ensure our systems are properly documented
• Contribute to the growth and development of the Wayfair engineering organization

Why Youll 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
• Global Pod Outings
• Work/Life Balance:
• Emphasizing a supportive & flexible work environment that encourages a balance between personal and professional commitments

Purpose & Inclusion at Wayfair:
At Wayfair we pride ourselves on fostering an environment where every individual experiences a fair and equitable employee journey. We are committed to developing targeted resources that raise awareness around inclusion and eliminate barriers ensuring Wayfair provides a fair and inclusive workplace experience for everyone.

Social Impact & Responsibility:
At Wayfair we focus on helping people on their journey to home specifically those who have lost their way from home. We do this by leveraging our best assets such as collaborating with leading nonprofit organizations coordinating inkind product donations empowering our employees to get involved through paid volunteer time off programs and encouraging our customers to donate. This multifaceted approach allows us to support communities in need in authentic ways that align with Wayfairs broader mission of helping everyone anywhere create their sense of home.

Wayfairs InOffice Policy:

All Torontobased 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 the other 2 days of the week.

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 Accommodations for Applicants form.

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