Architect, Supplier Advertising

**Who We Are**:
Wayfair is on a path to be the world’s largest online destination for the home. We are the largest tech first platform in the home category. Our marketplace offers over 30 million products from 23,000 suppliers and we served 23 million customers in 2024 alone.

Wayfair is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and the Wayfair Advertising team owns features that form the core of our onsite advertising business. We ensure that millions of ads served are relevant to our customers by enabling advertisers and agencies to connect with the right customers at the right time with the right products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.

Interested in learning more about Wayfair’s Engineering community?
- Brijesh Sharma is the Associate Director for Supplier Advertising Engineering
- Ravitej Sriram is the Director of Product leading Supplier Advertising

**What You’ll Do**:

- Partner with your business stakeholders to provide them with transparency, data, and resources to make informed decisions
- Be a technical leader within and across the teams you work with.
- Drive high impact architectural decisions 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 team and project goals.
- Create proposals and action plans to garner support across the organization.
- Influence and contribute to the team’s strategy and roadmap.
- Tenacity for learning - curious, and constantly pushing the boundary of what is possible.

**We Are a Match Because You Have**:

- **10+ years of experience** in software engineering, with expertise in designing and building scalable platforms.
- Hands-on contribution to the codebase is a **MUST**.
- Extensive knowledge of **backend technologies**, proficiency in programming languages such as **Java**, **Python**, or similar.
- Experience in **full-stack development**will be preferred.
- Experience in **e-commerce advertising**, including ad targeting, campaign management, performance tracking, and integration with advertising platforms.
- Expertise in **microservices architecture** for highly available, large-scale distributed systems.
- Deep understanding of **cloud platforms** such as **GCP**, **AWS**, or **Azure**.
- Ability to define a **future state vision**, lead **large-scale architectural solutions**, and guide step-by-step execution.
- Collaborate with Product Managers (PM) and Experience Designers (XD) to balance cost-effectiveness with business value and prioritize engineering solutions accordingly.
- Define internal priorities during project execution based on engineering aspects and solution designs.
- Mentor and coach engineers, conduct code reviews, and establish best practices to drive engineering excellence.
- Foster adoption of new technologies, platforms, and architectural solutions across the team.
- Passion for leading cross-functional projects, driving collaboration, and influencing design decisions to enhance customer experience and scalability.

**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.