The role
Job description
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 is one of the world's largest destinations for the home, as the company shares and celebrates progress across environmental, social, and governance topics. Wayfair is the destination for all things home: helping everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home. From expert customer service to the development of tools that make the shopping process easier, to carry one of the widest and deepest selections of items for every space, style, and budget, Wayfair gives everyone the power to create spaces that are just right for them. We deliver a best-in-class customer experience in the furniture and home space. To maintain our high level of delivery standards and meet our customer's needs, the Wayfair dedicated operations team plays a key role in improving customer satisfaction and driving repeat business. We've been busy building a best-in-class logistics network that allows us to delight customers by speeding up deliveries, adding services, and reducing damage using our physical, asset-based warehouses. Responsibilities: * Work with back-end engineers, UX Designers, and Product managers to understand requirements and translate design to implementation. * Develop ready-to-ship code that is tested rigorously and follows industry best practices. * Engage in understating requirements and their complexities and provide well-thought-out effort estimates for your tasks. * Help in evaluating front-end technology choices for the supply chain division, introduce front-end engineering standards that other engineers can adhere to. * Contribute to documentation and knowledge-sharing sessions for the team and the wider organization. * Help improve software engineering practices and lead initiatives to make the systems scalable, extensible and fault tolerant. * Come up with proof of concept solutions to help decide technology outcomes and trade-offs. * Take complete ownership of all your tasks, manage dependencies, and ensure they are completed in time. * Adapt quickly to changes and think out of the box solutions when required. Requirements: * Must have a minimum of 3+ years of work experience in Web development . * Must have strong hands-on development experience in front-end technologies including HTML5 JavaScript, TypeScript & React . * Proficiency in working on React based tools such as Webpack, Enzyme, Redux, Flux and Web Components . * Strong fundamentals in web standards, browser APIs, DOM Rendering, async programming, troubleshooting and application performance tuning. * Experience in Node.js and frameworks available for it such as Express. * Hands-on experience in object-oriented software development. * Must have experience working on entire SDLC - exposure to using tools for version control (Git), build processes, testing and release, CI/CD such as Jenkins, Gitlab, Circle. * Strong customer passion, ownership and drive to enhance customer experience. * Passion for leading a large, cross-cutting technical initiative to delivery, cross-functional consensus building and influencing design decisions . * Experience mentoring engineers and leading code reviews. * Proficient in designing systems at scale and relational database schema design . * Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders alike. * Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques.