Software Engineer I

Who We Are

Wayfair is one of the world's largest online destinations for the home, making it easy for shoppers to find exactly what they want from a selection of more than 40 million items across home furnishings, décor, home improvement, housewares, and more.

We partner closely with real-time messaging, data platform, and product teams to continuously improve reliability, throughput, and personalization of communications at scale.

What You'll Do

Implement well-scoped features and bug fixes within the batch communications pipeline, working from tasks assigned by your engineering manager or senior teammates

Write clean, tested, production-ready code against our distributed messaging infrastructure

Participate in code reviews, giving and receiving structured feedback to uphold team quality standards

Contribute unit and integration tests that protect pipeline reliability and delivery SLAs

Investigate and resolve clearly scoped on-call incidents under guidance from senior engineers

Collaborate with adjacent teams on cross-functional feature work as directed

Leverage AI tooling responsibly to accelerate coding, debugging, and test writing.

Collaborate to drive initiatives for adoption of Agentic AI Tooling for SDLC.

Exposure to message queue systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS) or batch processing frameworks

Familiarity with microservices architecture and REST APIs

Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS) or containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)

We Are a Match Because

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience

0–1 years of professional software engineering experience (internships and co-ops count)

Proficiency in at least one backend language - Go, PHP, Java, or Python - with a willingness to learn new languages on the job

Foundational understanding of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design

Ability to write and maintain unit tests and reason about test coverage

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities

Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please let us know by completing our Accomodations for Applicants form.

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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.

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