Software Engineer II, Transportation Planning and Management Technology
Software Engineer II, Transportation Planning and Management Technology
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Software Engineer II Transportation Planning and Management Technology
Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Boston MA and will be expected to comply with their teams hybrid work schedule requirements.
Who We Are Transportation Planning and Management
Wayfair runs the largest custom ecommerce large parcel network in the United States; approximately 1.6 million square meters of logistics space. The nature of the network is inherently a highly variable ecosystem that requires flexible reliable and resilient systems to operate efficiently.
We are looking for a passionate Software Engineer primarily focusing on backend to join the Transportation Planning and Management team. This team is responsible for building a suite of products that empower our operations partners across our global network to consistently provide bestinclass for all aspects of transportation planning and routing for First and Middle Mile movements at Wayfair including load planning and optimization transportation/route planning and optimization and integration with builtinhouse OR models and/or 3rd party TMS optimization engines.
What Youll Do
- Design develop operate and maintain cuttingedge solutions which allow for reuse and extensibility while still solving the primary problem at scale
- Build solutions for multiple services work in the code and understand at a detailed level how the software works
- Cultivate a deep understanding of how your systems impact Wayfairs customers field associates and other systems
- Help grow other engineers technically by mentoring pairing and developing other learning opportunities
- Contribute to a culture of engineering excellence and strengthen the technical expertise of our engineering and product teams
What Youll Need
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 3 years of handson experience in software engineering and designing systems at scale
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (we primarily use Python Java and PHP though any language will do as long as you are willing to learn)
- Experience with an asynchronous event streaming platform message queue or similar (we use Kafka)
- Strong working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL datastores (we use SQL Server and Google Big Query)
- Experience with a front end framework (we use ReactJS and TypeScript) is not required but preferred.
- Experience with a horizontally scalable distributed computing environment (we use Kubernetes across on premises data centers and Google Cloud Platform)
- Superior organizational and analytical skills with hypothesis driven problem solving and turning data into actionable insights
- Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience driving teams forward and ability to influence decisions
- Demonstrated ability to always be learning and improving yourself and others
Why Youll Love Wayfair
- Time Off:
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Paid Sick Days
- Health & Wellness:
- Health & Dental Benefits
- Life Insurance
- Disability Protection (Short Term & Long Term Disability)
- Global Wellbeing: Gym/Fitness discounts
- Mental Health Support (Global Mental Health Global Wayhealthy Recordings)
- Caregiver Services
- Financial Growth & Security:
- RRSP (Registered Retirement Savings Plan)
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Family Support:
- Parental Leave TopUp Program
- 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
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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Employment Type
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