Software Engineer II, Search & Recommendations
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Job Location:
Mountain View, CA - USA
Yearly Salary:
$ 165000 - 181500
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
An Important Note about Wayfairs In-Office Police and Salary: Please note that this is a hybrid role based in Mountain View and will require you to work in the office on Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays. The salary range for this position is $00 per year. The base salary offered may vary depending on location job-related knowledge skills and experience. Restricted stock units will be provided as part of the compensation package.
Who We Are:
Wayfair is revolutionizing how people shop for their homes. We offer an extensive selection of furniture decor and housewares committed to providing a seamless and personalized experience for millions of customers worldwide. The Search and Recommendations team is fundamental to Wayfairs personalization strategy. We develop and apply cutting-edge AI models and large-scale high-throughput systems to help customers discover and purchase products. Our platform handles over a billion calls daily and our work directly impacts hundreds of millions in revenue by ensuring an exceptional and seamless customer experience.
What Youll Do:
As a Software Engineer II you are an essential independent contributor focused on the code quality maintainability and operational resilience of critical search and recommendation systems. You will take ownership of tactical defined problems make sound technical decisions and deliver high-quality impactful code that directly translates into improved customer experience and business results.
Responsibilities
- Work with a highly collaborative cross-functional team that includes product managers machine learning scientists data scientists and senior engineers to deliver integrated technical solutions.
- Build platforms and services that enable real-time ML-powered decisions to improve the customer experience.
- Write clean scalable and efficient code in Java and/or Python adhering to high team standards and considering future extensibility.
- Work hands-on with a modern technology stack on Google Cloud Platform including Java Python Spring Boot Spark Kafka Kubernetes GraphQL and Vertex AI.
- Provide high quality code and technical design reviews.
We Are A Match Because You Have:
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related discipline.
- 2-5 years of professional experience in full-time software development.
- Strong proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language (Java preferred).
- Solid foundation in data structures algorithms and software design principles.
- Proven experience developing and maintaining high-throughput low-latency services within a distributed systems environment.
- Practical experience with Java and the Spring Boot framework for microservice development.
- Experience with deploying and maintaining Machine Learning models or algorithms in a production user-facing environment.
- Demonstrated experience with cloud technologies (GCP is a plus) containerization (e.g. Docker Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with databases (e.g. SQL NoSQL) and stream-processing technologies (e.g. Kafka).
- Experience with production systems including monitoring alerting and participating in an on-call rotation.
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 industry-leading technology and creative problem-solving 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 risk-takers and trailblazers who celebrate our differences and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger smarter and well-positioned 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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Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- Data Structures
- JavaScript
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Shop Wayfair for A Zillion Things Home across all styles and budgets. 5,000 brands of furniture, lighting, cookware, and more. Free Shipping on most items.
