Associate Director Software Engineering - WDN 4 Walls

Wayfair runs the largest in-house-built big parcel network of all e-commerces in the United States, standing at approximately 1.6 million square meters of logistics space across North America and Europe. A network of these massive proportions is inherently a highly variable ecosystem that requires flexible, reliable, and resilient systems to operate efficiently.

We are looking for a passionate senior engineering manager to join our WDN 4 Walls team, the team responsible for the systems that enable our delivery network warehouse operations. As part of our team, you will be solving complex problems that have a direct and salient impact on our supply chain operations and end-customers.

For this role, we need a hands-on engineering manager that will lead a new team responsible for our 4 Walls Operations Portal. Our current tech stack includes PHP, Python, React, Typescript, a mix of REST and Kafka interfaces, RDBMs, Aerospike, and K8s among others. And we will be incorporating other technologies as the platform evolves.

What you’ll do:

• Play a key role in developing and driving a multi-year technology strategy for a user facing platform
• Inspire, coach, mentor and support your team members in their day to day work and their long term professional growth
• Partner with your product manager, staff engineer, and stakeholders to identify the biggest opportunity areas for the product
• Lead your team and peers by example. As a senior member of the team your methodologies, coding 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 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
• 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
• 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 requirements

And finally, our proposition to you!

• A competitive salary, yearly bonus, and an attractive equity package
• We contribute to your gym membership and offer free Yoga classes, as well as Wellness Weeks with massages, workshops, and other exciting events
• The opportunity to work cross-functionally and closely with senior leadership, not only in the Berlin office but also with Boston, London, and Galway
• We offer a vast selection of classes through our learn@work program to enhance your professional and personal development
• Regular company-sponsored social events to connect with your team and fellow colleagues
• An office location in the heart of the Berlin startup scene, with lots of space to encourage collaboration and teamwork