Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Toronto, ON, Canada
and will be expected to comply with their team's hybrid work schedule
requirements.
The base pay for this position is $207,700 - $228,771 per year. The base pay
offered may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and
experience.
Who We Are:
Display and Sponsored Shops (DSS) is Wayfair’s innovative advertising platform,
enabling suppliers to maximize product visibility and drive sales across Wayfair
US, Wayfair CA, and Wayfair Professional. Leveraging both internal and external
technologies, DSS provides advanced ad placements that enhance the shopping
experience while delivering measurable impact for brands.
If you're excited about building the future of advertising in e-commerce and
want to be part of a dynamic, high-growth team, we’d love to hear from you!
Interested in learning more about Wayfair’s Engineering community?
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the
technical vision, architecture, and execution of Wayfair’s next-generation video
advertising platform. You will:
- Define and drive the architecture for scalable, high-performance video ad
serving solutions.
- Make strategic technical decisions, balancing innovation, scalability, and
operational efficiency.
- Lead cross-functional collaboration, working closely with engineering,
product, and business teams to design and implement complex ad-serving
workflows.
- Guide technical direction on areas such as dynamic ad insertion, targeting
strategies, and advanced ad placement optimizations.
- Mentor and influence engineering teams, establishing best practices for
software development, system reliability, and performance tuning.
- Evaluate and introduce new technologies, ensuring the platform is built with
modern, forward-looking architecture that meets business needs at scale.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
We seek a technical leader and strategic thinker who can architect
enterprise-scale systems and drive the evolution of Wayfair’s advertising
platform. The ideal candidate will have:
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and large-scale
ad tech (real-time bidding, programmatic advertising, ad serving, etc.).
- A strong background in software architecture, with experience designing
high-availability, low-latency systems.
- Proven ability to influence and lead teams, with strong communication and
mentorship skills.
- Experience with video advertising technologies, ad targeting, and
auction-based ad models (preferred but not required).
- A track record of delivering high-impact, business-critical systems in a
fast-paced environment.
We Are a Match Because You Have:
- 5+ years of experience architecting highly complex, interconnected systems
that solved complex business problems
- 8+ years of experience in backend software engineering using object oriented
language and preferably Java
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
combination of education and experience
- Experience working with relational and non-relational databases
- Experience working with event-driven architectures, DDD, and TDD
- Mastery of some flavor of modern frontend frameworks and technologies like
React, Redux, etc
- Experience in Big Data technologies like Apache Kafka/Apache spark/Nosql
databases
- Preferred experience in the CI/CD tools/platforms like
Buildkite/Docker/Kubernetes.
- Experience with Cloud Native architecture platforms like Google Cloud, AWS,
or Azure.
- Experience in system monitoring using tools like DataDog etc.
Why You'll Love Wayfair
We are looking forward to your application!
About Wayfair Inc.
Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. Whether
you work in our global headquarters in Boston, or in our warehouses or offices
throughout the world, we’re 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 you’re looking for rapid growth, constant
learning, and dynamic challenges, then you’ll find that amazing career
opportunities are knocking.
No matter who you are, Wayfair is a place you can call home. We’re 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. That’s
why we’re 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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