Senior Software Engineer, Supplier Advertising

Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Boston, Massachusetts USA and will be expected to comply with their team's hybrid work schedule requirements. Who We Are At Wayfair, we harness the power of technology innovation to connect suppliers with our extensive customer base. The advertising platform is an integral part of our mission. Operating on a vast selection of sponsored items of decor, home improvement, housewares, and more, our platform ensures that suppliers can showcase their offerings, enhancing visibility and driving sales.

Wayfair is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business. Wayfair Advertising team owns features that form the core of our onsite and offsite advertising business. 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.

One of the most significant growth drivers for advertising will be enabling sophisticated mechanisms to manage and troubleshoot campaigns at scale regardless of suppliers’ prior advertising know-how. You will have the opportunity to lead our engineering efforts in helping suppliers set up and manage their advertising portfolios on Wayfair. You will invent, enhance, and build world-class software solutions, delivering results, and working on exciting and challenging projects.

You will also have a focus on the customer experience, great teamwork and communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. Interested in learning more about Wayfair’s Engineering community? Check out our Wayfair Tech Blog: https://www.aboutwayfair.com/careers/techblog . Marina Berdichevsky leads our Sponsored Experience Engineering team Jacky Chan is the Advertising Experience Engineering Manager What You’ll Do: Partner with your business stakeholders to shape the future Supplier Advertising vision and roadmap 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 Advise engineering and product management on technical roadmap, ensuring that the vision aligns with broader company objectives Promote a culture of engineering excellence and strengthen the technical expertise of our engineering and product teams Keep current on AI engineering technology trends, evaluate, work on proof-of-concept and make recommendations on the technologies based on their merit Collaborate with Product Managers (PM) and Experience Designers (XD) and MLS to balance cost-effectiveness with business value and prioritize engineering solutions accordingly.

Mentor and coach engineers, conduct code reviews, and establish best practices to drive engineering excellence. Act as a team multiplier by improving velocity, accelerating onboarding, and driving the adoption of new technologies, AI-driven engineering workflows, and architectural solutions across the team. We Are a Match Because You Have: 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with expertise in designing and building scalable platforms Deep understanding of cloud platforms such as GCP , AWS , or Azure .

Strong software engineering skills (Java, Python, REST/GraphQL APIs, Docker, Kubernetes Expertise in system architecture for highly available, large-scale distributed systems. Ability to define a future state vision , lead large-scale architectural solutions , and guide step-by-step execution. Passion for leading cross-functional projects, driving collaboration, and influencing design decisions to enhance customer experience and scalability.

Tenacity for learning - curious, and constantly pushing the boundary of what is possible. Nice to have: GenAI experience : working with LLMs, RAG pipelines, vector databases, prompt tuning, or real-time AI inference optimization, or model evaluation tools Agentic AI expertise : familiarity or hands-on experience with frameworks enabling autonomous agents—ReAct, Reflective Loops, tool-using agents, multi-agent systems - coordination, or distributed AI architectures ML architecture : model fine-tuning, LLM evaluation, reinforcement learning, memory mechanisms, and agent orchestration Understanding of agentic AI governance , trust, risk, and security frameworks We look forward to receiving your application!

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