Senior Manager Software Engineering, Supply Chain Technology

Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Bangalore India and will be expected to comply with their teams hybrid work schedule requirements.

Who We Are:

Wayfair runs the largest custom e-commerce 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 are looking for a passionate Senior Engineering Manager to join the Supply Chain Retail Technology team. This team builds the platforms that determine how customer orders are fulfilled optimizing for Wayfair profitability and customer delight. A big part of our work revolves around enhancing and scaling customer-facing platforms that provide fulfillment information on our websites starting at the top of the customer funnel on the search pages all the way through orders being delivered. Throughout this customer journey we are responsible for maintaining an accurate representation of our dynamic supply chain determining how different products will fit into boxes predicting how these boxes will flow through warehouses and trucks and ultimately surfacing the information our customers need to inform their decision and the details our suppliers and carriers require to successfully execute on the promises made to our customers. We do all of this in milliseconds thousands of times per second.

What Youll Do:

• Play a key role in developing and driving a multi-year technology strategy for a complex platform.
• Lead multiple software development teams - architecting solutions at scale to empower the business and owning all aspects of the SDLC: design build deliver and maintain.
• Directly and indirectly manage several software engineers by providing coaching guidance and mentorship to grow the team as well as individuals.
• Inspire coach mentor and support your team members in their day to day work and their long term professional growth.
• Attract onboard develop and retain diverse top talents while fostering an inclusive and collaborative team and culture (our latest DEI Report)
• Lead your team and peers by example. As a senior member of the team your methodologies technical and operational excellence practices and system designs will help to continuously improve our domain.
• Identify propose and drive initiatives to advance the technical skills standards practices architecture and documentation of our engineering teams.
• Facilitate technical debate and decision making with an appreciation for trade-offs
• Continuously rethink and push the status quo even when it challenges your/our established ideas.

What Youll Need:

• Results-oriented collaborative pragmatic and continuous improvement mindset
• Hands-on experience driving release engineering within high-growth environments previous platform experience is required.
• Good understanding of modern deployment methodologies including progressive green/blue etc.
• Experience working with containers container orchestration and deploy automation
• 12 years of experience in engineering out of which at least 5-6 years spent in leading
  highly performant teams .
• Experience making architectural and design-related decisions for large scale platforms
  understanding the tradeoffs between time-to-market vs. flexibility.
• Significant experience and vocation in managing and enabling peoples growth and performance.
• Experience designing and building high-scale generalizable products with outstanding user experience. Practical experience in hiring and developing engineering teams and culture and leading interdisciplinary teams in a fast-paced agile environment.
• Capability to communicate and collaborate across the wider organization influencing decisions with and without direct authority and always with inclusive adaptable and persuasive communication.
• Analytical and decision-making skills that integrate technical and business requirements