Wayfair
Location
Delhi | India
Job description
Who We Are Wayfair believes everyone should live in a home they love. Through technology and innovation, Wayfair makes 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. Committed to delighting its customers every step of the way, Wayfair is reinventing the way people shop for their homes – from product discovery to final delivery.
The Event Exchange team is composed of platforms aimed at empowering every Wayfair team with high-quality data. It accomplishes this through ingesting, organizing, and activating data in a scalable fashion. The platform was born out of an original mission to produce insights that would power a single view of the customer for far-reaching purposes from personalization to predicting behaviors to analytics. Today, those same tools have grown to ingest any type of data (product, customer, order, etc.) in real-time, support any type of prediction (e.g. shipping times, best email send time, class affinity), and activate that data in all the ways teams desire to consume it. This role is for an Engineering Manager focused on the Event Management Tooling team, responsible for empowering event data producers and consumers via tools for event registration, metadata management and monitoring. What You’ll Do: Play a key role in developing and driving a multi-year technology strategy for a complex platform Lead multiple software development teams - architecting solutions at scale to empower the business, and owning all aspects of the SDLC: design, build, deliver, and maintain Directly and indirectly manage several software engineers by providing coaching, guidance, and mentorship to grow the team as well as individuals Inspire, coach, mentor, and support your team members in their day to day work and their long term professional growth Attract, onboard, develop and retain diverse top talents, while fostering an inclusive and collaborative team and culture (our latest DEI Report) Lead your team and peers by example. As a senior member of the team your methodologies, technical and operational excellence practices, and system designs will help to continuously improve our domain Identify, propose, and drive initiatives to advance the technical skills, standards, practices, architecture, and documentation of our engineering teams Facilitate technical debate and decision making with an appreciation for trade-offs Continuously rethink and push the status quo, even when it challenges your/our established ideas. What You’ll Need: Results-oriented, collaborative, pragmatic, and continuous improvement mindset Hands-on experience driving software transformations within high-growth environments, previous platform experience is required. 12+ years of experience in engineering, out of which at least 5-6 years spent in leading highly performant teams and their managers Experience making architectural and design-related decisions for large scale platforms, understanding the tradeoffs between time-to-market vs. flexibility Significant experience and vocation in managing and enabling people’s growth and performance Experience designing and building high-scale generalizable products with outstanding user experience. Practical experience in hiring and developing engineering teams and culture and leading interdisciplinary teams in a fast-paced agile environment Capability to communicate and collaborate across the wider organization, influencing decisions with and without direct authority and always with inclusive, adaptable, and persuasive communication Analytical and decision-making skills that integrate technical and business requirementsJob tags
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