What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer III, Fraud & Payments position at Wayfair?
This is a hybrid on-site position based out of Wayfair's Boston, MA office. (Mon/Fri remote, Tues-Thurs on-site)
By applying to this position, your application is automatically considered for the range of Engineering roles we have at Wayfair. If we think you might be a fit, a recruiter will reach out to learn more about your background and discuss relevant positions in more detail.
Who We Are:
At Wayfair we are well on the way to becoming the world’s number one, online destination for all things home. Our core belief is that everyone should live in a home they love. We make this possible by ensuring our 24 million customers have all the technology and innovation they need at their fingertips, to give them access to our more than 33 million products which are provided by our 23,000 awesome global suppliers. In the Storefront team, we are the first impression of a customer’s shopping experience; we own the design and implementation of the customer-facing website. We partner with Product, Experience Design, Analytics and business leaders across Wayfair; our Storefront Engineering teams ensure that we’re building technology that solves important customer problems in elegant, scalable, measurable ways.
The Fintech & Loyalty - Fraud & Pay team at Wayfair pioneers cutting-edge fraud technology and mission-critical payment systems. The team’s mission is to provide a reliable, secure, and scalable platform that enables Wayfair to offer the widest range of payment options to our customers through a world-class, frictionless experience. Our goal is to move fast, deliver value iteratively, while ensuring stability and correctness. Working within fraud and payments, you’ll have the unique opportunity to contribute to the global Wayfair tech organization while tackling a well-defined problem statement.
If you love to solve real business problems at scale, in a fast-paced, high growth and agile environment, this is the role for you!
What You Will Do:
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.
Your personal data is processed in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Notice (https://www.wayfair.com/careers/privacy). If you have any questions or wish to exercise your rights under applicable privacy and data protection laws, please contact us at dataprotectionofficer@wayfair.com.
By applying to this position, your application is automatically considered for the range of Engineering roles we have at Wayfair. If we think you might be a fit, a recruiter will reach out to learn more about your background and discuss relevant positions in more detail.
Who We Are:
At Wayfair we are well on the way to becoming the world’s number one, online destination for all things home. Our core belief is that everyone should live in a home they love. We make this possible by ensuring our 24 million customers have all the technology and innovation they need at their fingertips, to give them access to our more than 33 million products which are provided by our 23,000 awesome global suppliers. In the Storefront team, we are the first impression of a customer’s shopping experience; we own the design and implementation of the customer-facing website. We partner with Product, Experience Design, Analytics and business leaders across Wayfair; our Storefront Engineering teams ensure that we’re building technology that solves important customer problems in elegant, scalable, measurable ways.
The Fintech & Loyalty - Fraud & Pay team at Wayfair pioneers cutting-edge fraud technology and mission-critical payment systems. The team’s mission is to provide a reliable, secure, and scalable platform that enables Wayfair to offer the widest range of payment options to our customers through a world-class, frictionless experience. Our goal is to move fast, deliver value iteratively, while ensuring stability and correctness. Working within fraud and payments, you’ll have the unique opportunity to contribute to the global Wayfair tech organization while tackling a well-defined problem statement.
If you love to solve real business problems at scale, in a fast-paced, high growth and agile environment, this is the role for you!
What You Will Do:
- Flex your strength and knowledge on Java, DevOps, and microservice development.
- Define and ensure services are built to industry best practices, including observability, architectural patterns, and inter-team dependency mechanisms (like SLOs)
- Drive high-impact solutions at a team level, including inception, design, execution, and delivery following good design and coding practices
- Write code to implement high-quality, scalable, future-proof services that will have effective system boundaries and will support long-term vision & strategy
- Participate in technical debates within and across teams to help come to durable documented conclusions
- Work closely with architects and other teams across Storefront to breakdown an existing PHP monolith into well defined Java Microservices with clean boundaries and clear API contracts
- Identify risks and gaps in technical approaches and propose solutions to meet the team’s technical vision
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and peer engineering teams to define project requirements and execution plans
- 5 years of experience in engineering, with a preference for candidates with a mix of start-up and large-company experience. eComm domain expertise is a bonus
- Hands-on experience delivering software within high-growth environments at scale
- Experienced in designing and building large-scale, cloud-based systems across various projects
- Experience operating distributed services at scale, including familiarity with observability tools, logging techniques, troubleshooting, and incident response.
- Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience driving solutions forward and ability to influence results
- Expertise with a modern programming language (such as Kotlin, Python, Java, C#, Scala, GO, or others). Java experience preferred.
- Experience with one or more common open source platforms, tools and framework, eg: Kafka, Kubernetes, Containerization, Java microservices, GraphQL APIs, Aerospike, etc.
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.
Your personal data is processed in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Notice (https://www.wayfair.com/careers/privacy). If you have any questions or wish to exercise your rights under applicable privacy and data protection laws, please contact us at dataprotectionofficer@wayfair.com.
