Wayfair is seeking an experienced engineer to be responsible for the technical strategy and execution of Wayfair's global loyalty, payments, financing, and fraud platform with experience across all of our retail brands. ) and geographical areas (currently 5 countries and this number will increase to 15+ in the coming years). In 2022, Wayfair had approximately $12 billion in net sales, which combined with our total addressable market of over $800 billion (and counting) means we're just starting at. This team's mission is to provide a global service from a world-class platform. We create exceptional transaction experiences for our customers and suppliers while managing transaction risk and total payment costs. This role strengthens an interdisciplinary team of engineering, product management, design, and analysis. We are rapidly expanding our payments platform (including Fintech, Loyalty, and Fraud) to meet customer needs, focusing on efficiency, scalability, and cost-effectiveness, with real-time impact across the entire organization.
What You?ll Do: - Serve as the technical lead in the critical domain, designing & building a platform that interfaces with many different systems within and outside Wayfair and partners globally
- Play a key role in developing and driving a multi-year technology strategy for Wayfair's Fintech & Loyalty Ecosystem
- Architect and review code to implement high-quality, scalable, future-proof services that will have effective system boundaries and will support long-term vision & strategy
- Conduct technical debate across an entire platform and help come to durable documented conclusions ? Drive high-impact architectural solutions and hands-on development, including inception, design, execution, and delivery following good design and coding practices
- Obsessively focus on production readiness for the team including testing, monitoring, deployment, documentation, and proactive troubleshooting
- Identify risks and gaps in technical approaches and propose solutions to meet the department's technical vision
- Influence and contribute to the department's strategy and roadmap
- Support the growth of other engineers technically by mentoring, pairing, and developing other opportunities for education
- Be externally recognized as a collaborative and credible subject matter expert for the broader team?s focus area
What You?ll Need - 15+ years of experience in engineering, with a preference for candidates with a mix of start-up and large-company experience
- Nice to have: Payments engineering domain expertise, especially experience with larger scale integrations (credit cards, financing, BNPL, applications)
- E-commerce or customer-facing technology experience on a high traffic website is also a huge plus ? Hands-on experience driving software transformations within high-growth environments at scale
- Experienced in architecting and building large-scale, cloud-based technology
- Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience driving teams forward and ability to influence results
Technology Requirements - Exposure to cloud native technologies (GCP, AWS, Azure) at scale
- Distributed systems experience
- Data-based technologies in the cloud
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