Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Bangalore, India and will be expected to comply with their team's hybrid work schedule requirements.
Who We Are:
Wayfair runs the largest custom e-commerce large parcel network in the United States, approximately 1.6 million square meters of logistics space. The nature of the network is inherently a highly variable ecosystem that requires flexible, reliable, and resilient systems to operate efficiently.Wayfair believes everyone should live in a home they love. Through technology and innovation, we make it possible for shoppers to quickly and easily find exactly what they want from a selection of more than 14 million items across home furnishings, décor, home improvement, housewares, and more. Partnering with Product, Experience Design, Analytics, and business leaders across Wayfair, our Native App Engineering teams contribute to an award-winning mobile experience that makes shopping for your home delightful and engaging. iOS and Android engineers leverage the full capabilities of mobile devices and their SDKs. For example, our apps take advantage of augmented reality, computer vision-assisted product search using the device’s camera, and machine learning to create personalized experiences and improve the speed of the app.
The App Welcome team charter is to provide fast, reliable, scalable solutions of onboarding customers within the wayfair ecosystem, and provide the necessary platform services that will authenticate, notify, and differentiate their experiences based upon their needs. We are looking for a driven leader who is passionate about releasing high-quality software and platform services, and empowering our users to have an excellent shopping experience throughout our native apps. The ideal candidate has experience in native app development (iOS or Android), and a proven track record of managing stakeholders and external partners. This person will leverage their breadth of knowledge in these areas to lead and grow a multi-disciplinary engineering team that delivers features for Wayfair shoppers and platform services to our distributed engineering teams.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead development for in-depth mobile projects surrounding upper-funnel functionality such as homepage, sales, category, authentication, and landing experiences, including architecting and developing new features, application maintenance and refactoring, and increased performance and automation.
- Review code and provide guidance for other developers participating in our release approval process.
- Being passionate about test coverage and quality engineering are paramount.
- Use data and metrics to collaboratively drive impactful changes.
- Frequently interface and interact with quality, UX, back-end/API, product, analytics, and other teams.
- Though primarily focused on Android, collaborate with iOS and full-stack teams to ensure solutions are robust and aligned.
- Lead by example; share knowledge, experience, and best practices through mentoring, tech talks, and presentations.
We Are a Match Because You Have:
- At least 6+ years of professional Android development on publicly available apps.
- A passion for writing clean, readable, and thoroughly tested code, and an eagerness to share your expertise with others.
- A mastery of Android fundamentals, interacting with endpoints, debugging, and memory management.
- Experience having architected or designed complex features with product managers or other stakeholders.
- A deep understanding of architecture patterns such as MVP, MVVM, Clean/VIPER, etc., as well as async patterns.
- A drive to learn about new libraries and technologies, stay on the cutting edge of the evolving mobile landscape and an eagerness to create experiences that will delight users.
- A genuine belief that constructive and respectful code reviews are the bedrock of a healthy team.
- Knowledge of Material Design, Android UI/UX development, and best practices
Experience with the following is nice to have:
- Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and GraphQL
- Ruby or similar scripting languages
- Working cross-platform with iOS and/or Full-Stack
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.
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