Senior Software Engineer, GraphQL Platforms

About the position

The GraphQL Platform team is at the forefront of that technology transition, through building foundational patterns and systems for Federated GraphQL API design, data orchestration, and application architecture. The team delivers the GraphQL client and service best practices, tier-0 runtime, tools, and architecture support necessary for teams across Wayfair to build exceptional clients, services, and systems. Our team is packed with passionate engineers, and we are looking for folks with a keen desire to learn and grow to come join us!

Responsibilities

• Be a visionary leader providing guidance and mentorship to your team and across the organization on GraphQL in a distributed system, and best practices
• Motivate and influence teams to buy into team vision and quarterly roadmap, pushing individuals outside of their comfort zones where necessary
• Drive high-impact architectural solutions and hands-on development, including inception, design, execution, and delivery following good design and coding practices
• Flex your strength and knowledge of GraphQL in a distributed system, DevOps, service development, and support
• Define and ensure services are built to industry best practices, including observability, architectural patterns, and inter-team dependency mechanisms (like SLOs)
• Architect and write code to implement high-quality, scalable, future-proof platform 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
• Obsessively focus on production readiness for the team including testing, monitoring, deployment, documentation, and proactive troubleshooting
• 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
• Provide visibility into team results and bottlenecks, and drive data-driven action plans
• Work within an Agile culture to foster continuous improvement at the team and departmental level
• Be a multiplier, mentor other engineers on the team to improve standards and reduce defects in dynamic environments

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in engineering, with a preference for candidates with a mix of start-up and large-company experience
• 3+ years of deep Federated GraphQL experience is required
• Hands-on experience delivering software within high-growth environments at scale
• Mastery in cross-functional consensus building and influencing without given authority
• Experienced in designing and building large-scale, cloud-based systems across various projects
• Successful background in designing production systems at scale including fault tolerance, reliability, performance, and security
• 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 TypeScript, Rust, Java, or others)
• Experience with one or more common open source platforms, tools and framework, eg: GraphQL, Node.js, React, Java microservices, Kafka, Kubernetes, etc.
• Experience leveraging monitoring and logging technologies (e.g. DataDog)
• Experience leading/supervising and/or mentoring engineers, leading code reviews, and establishing best engineering practices

Nice-to-haves

• eComm domain expertise is a bonus

Benefits

• Full health benefits available (Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA/FSA) on day one for eligible employees
• No-cost access to 2nd.MD, a virtual expert medical consultation and navigation service
• Global Traveler Health Insurance through GeoBlue
• 24/7 access to mental, financial, physical and emotional wellbeing support, plus an enhanced offering of therapy and coaching
• Automatic enrollment into Basic Life and Accidental Death & Disability Insurance
• 401(k) matching with immediate vesting
• Paid Parental Leave, Surrogacy & Adoption Reimbursement and Caregiver Services
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Wayfair Employee Discount
• Gym/Fitness Discounts (including Peloton, Wellhub and varying regional memberships)
• Exclusive access to thousands of perks & discounts through BenefitHub
• Yearly match up to $500 for personal donations made by employees to registered 501(c)(3) nonprofits