Software Engineer III, Dynamic Pricing and APIs

Candidates for this position are required to be based in Boston MA and will be expected to comply with their teams hybrid work schedule requirements (Tues-Thurs in office Mon and Fri remote).

Who We Are:

At Wayfair the Pricing Engineering teams develop tools data streams and algorithms to optimize and manage profit revenue and price perception. We work with a large set of data including all cost and price impacting data points for the entire catalog. This helps the business set competitive prices drive promotional sales and manage margin expectations. We work at a fast pace and maintain a high performing system.

We are looking for engineers that will help us tackle important work on our roadmap. We are looking for engineers that will help us tackle important. This may include but is not limited to continuing our Tech transformation towards Cloud Native solutions and work on our next generation Dynamic Differential Pricing Systems.

These tasks are accomplished through cutting-edge technology stack on the Google Cloud Platform including C# and Java-based microservices GraphQL and Distributed Storage. If youre interested in joining a dynamic engineering team that thrives on innovation and scaling to meet increased customer demand wed love to hear from you.

What Youll Do:

• Lead mentor code and review for best practices stability and uptime.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to understand the domain.
• Own platform architecture driving scalable technology and roadmap decisions.
• Implement and advocate engineering best practices leveling up engineers.
• Provide visibility into team results and bottlenecks driving data-driven action plans.
• Think beyond current tech limitations for collaborative feasible solutions.
• Foster continuous improvement via agile processes for enterprise-grade experiences.
• Use C# or Java to design data consumption/production processes and build backend applications for Wayfair Pricing Platforms.
• Design and implement data processing pipelines using Google Cloud Platform technologies.
• Provide superior monitoring visibility for platform health using DataDog.
• Hone technical leadership by growing engineers.
• Collaborate with product managers designers and engineers to refine product requirements.
• Uphold high-quality standards advocating for best practices and leading code reviews.
• Explore and implement new technologies and frameworks.
• Use e-commerce business knowledge to convert product requirements into technical solutions.

We Are a Match Because You Have:

• 7 years of experience and deep understanding of C# programming language
• Proven success in mentoring junior engineers to improve quality and reduce defects
• Ability to provide visibility to progress through short feedback loops and data-driven action
• Successful background designing production systems at scale including fault tolerance reliability performance and security
• Experience with scaling distributed systems streaming technologies microservice architectures in a cloud environment (ideally Google Cloud Platform)
• Passion for leading a large cross-cutting technical initiative to delivery cross-functional consensus building and influencing design decisions.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience with Cloud Native architecture platforms like Google Cloud AWS or Azure.
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases
• Experience working with event-driven architectures DDD and TDD
• Experience and desire to work in an agile environment
• Preferred experience in the CI/CD tools/platforms like Buildkite/Docker/Kubernetes.
• Experience in system monitoring using tools like DataDog etc.
• Experience in development and technical design of frontend and backend applications from start to finish
• Understanding of functional programming and javascript best practices
• Experience and deep understanding of atomic design (reusable components)