Software Engineer I - Toronto, Canada - Wayfair

Description

Software Engineer I - Summer 2024

Location: Toronto, Canada

Wayfair is on a mission to find the most talented engineers entering the tech world Do you love innovating and creating new tools from scratch? We're looking for engineers who love sharing ideas, collaborating to improve them, and being a part of the full software development process. Our engineers are enthusiastic problem solvers and our teams are highly collaborative.

Wayfair is looking for candidates who are passionate about programming, and have strong core fundamentals - no matter how (or when) they learned to code. If you feel confident in your knowledge of object oriented design, data structures, & algorithms and your ability to grow your skills over time, please apply We want to connect with developers who are eager to work in a highly collaborative team and add to Wayfair's culture. You will have the opportunity to work on the following team:

Employee & Enterprise Technology: Builds and improves the software that directly impacts customers, customer service, sales, finance operations and accounting, talent management and external vendors. This team is responsible for all the tools and processes to support business critical operations at Wayfair, along with supporting the continued enhancement and scaling capabilities of these systems.

Infrastructure and Platform Tech: Responsible for the entire Wayfair website and all backend components that fuels and powers production. You can be an embedded engineer or a platform engineer. Embedded engineers work directly with engineering verticals to build and consult in building new initiatives. Platform engineers are subject matter experts for languages and engineering tools. You can expect to work with engineers that thrive in collaboration and expertise in one of Wayfair's supported languages or frameworks including Java, .NET, Python, PHP, Backstage, Buildkite, or SonarQube. You can expect to work with engineers that thrive in collaboration and expertise in one of Wayfair's supported languages (Java, .NET, Python, PHP, Javascript, with some Golang and Rust) and frameworks (Backstage, Buildkite, SonarQube, Puppet, Terraform and others).

Marketing Technology & Data & ML Platforms: We build and integrate enabling technologies to power all aspects of customer acquisition, retention, and engagement. We also expose best-of-class third-party and other Wayfair technologies through our platforms so marketers and suppliers can leverage them for their businesses. We empower Wayfair teams to make data-driven decisions at scale by providing data platforms and machine learning capabilities, enabling customers to make home a reality.

Storefront Tech: We develop the features, web services, and data architecture that provide a world-class shopping engine for our millions of unique daily customers. We work in small, cross-functional agile teams to develop, deploy, and iterate on new experiences by partnering with Product, Experience Design, Analytics, and business leaders across Wayfair. Our Websites and Native Apps are built on a foundation of highly-scalable technologies and supports tens of millions of products. We tackle exciting problems that are reshaping how people discover, find, purchase and have goods delivered to their homes. We are a diverse, multidisciplinary team of world-class engineers with a highly visible workstream that drives significant impact.

What You'll Need:

• Excellent team player with a passion for collaboration
• <1-2 years of software development experience is preferred
• You have an undergraduate degree in Computer Science or a related technical field graduating in Spring 2024 and are looking for a role starting in Summer 2024
• You have experience with full stack and/or mobile development
• You are familiar with creating software tools and functionality, debugging code, and successfully incorporating feedback into your work
• You have knowledge and experience working with object oriented programming languages
• You have great skills in solving complex problems with simple abstract solutions
• You have experience or exposure to SQL, Java, and Python
• You have an interest in working with big data and machine learning
• You may have experience with using cloud platforms to solve problems
• You may have experience working in agile environments
• You enjoy autonomy and the opportunity to make a project or tool on your own
• You have strong communication skills

What You'll Do:

• Responsible for designing and being hands-on in building applications that are reliable, scalable and easy to maintain
• Ensure the quality of engineering direction across multiple teams within the organization
• Contribute to architectural and code review discussions that impact our engineering ecosystem
• Define standards to raise the bar of the teams you'll be working with
• Collaborate with leads and engineers across multiple teams to solve a wide variety of business and technical problems
• Ensure our systems are properly documented
• Contribute to the growth and development of the Wayfair engineering organization

An Important Note about Wayfair's In-Office Policy:
All corporate employees will be in office in a hybrid capacity. Employees will work in the office on designated days, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and work remotely the other 2 days of the week.

At this time, Wayfair does not provide sponsorship for employment authorization for this position.

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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