L1 Software Engineer - Experienced Graduates

Spring 2025 Start

Location: Mountain View, CA

This is a Mountain View, CA based opportunity with a 3 day in office expectation.

Wayfair is continuing to expand our commitment to hiring and supporting talent early in their careers, focusing on filling opportunities with experienced graduates who have 1-3 years of experience.

Wayfair is on a mission to find the most talented engineers entering the tech world! Do you love innovating and creating new tools from scratch? We’re looking for engineers who love sharing ideas, collaborating to improve them, and being a part of the full software development process. Our engineers are enthusiastic problem solvers and our teams are highly collaborative. 

Wayfair is looking for candidates who are passionate about programming, and have strong core fundamentals. If you feel confident in your knowledge of object oriented design, data structures, & algorithms and your ability to grow your skills over time, please apply! We want to connect with developers who are eager to work in a highly collaborative team and add to Wayfair’s culture. You will have the opportunity to work on one of the following teams:

Employee & Enterprise Technology: Builds and improves the software that directly impacts customers, customer service, sales, finance operations and accounting, talent management and external vendors. This team is responsible for all the tools and processes to support business critical operations at Wayfair, along with supporting the continued enhancement and scaling capabilities of these systems.

Global Supplier Tech: Wayfair sells millions of products and this team owns all the data, tools, and systems that create and manage the content on the site related to each product. We build tools for our thousands of suppliers to send us content we need to be able to sell their products on site. This team makes sure the customer has the information they need to be confident when purchasing for their home. Within Catalog, there are also teams such as pricing & competitive intelligence engineering, merchandising & media engineering, and virtual media.

Search and Recommendations Tech: Provides the core platforms and services that allow our customers to discover & buy the products they love. Our systems leverage Wayfair’s extensive customer and product data to deliver trusted and valuable recommendations in real-time using custom machine learning models.

Storefront Tech: We develop the features, web services, and data architecture that provide a world-class shopping engine for our millions of unique daily customers. We work in small, cross-functional agile teams to develop, deploy, and iterate on new experiences by partnering with Product, Experience Design, Analytics, and business leaders across Wayfair. Our Websites and Native Apps are built on a foundation of highly-scalable technologies and supports tens of millions of products. We tackle exciting problems that are reshaping how people discover, find, purchase and have goods delivered to their homes. We are a diverse, multidisciplinary team of world-class engineers with a highly visible workstream that drives significant impact.

Supply Chain Retail Tech: Develops the complex, ground-breaking logistics system to help move the products Wayfair sells from suppliers to warehouses to customers. Supply Chain is responsible for international transportation, warehouse management, and the customer delivery network making it all possible.

What You’ll Need: 

Basic Qualifications

• 1-3 years of transferable software development experience in a corporate environment, including internship and co-op experience
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or another related technical discipline
• Knowledge and experience working with object oriented programming languages
• Experience or exposure to SQL, Java, and Python

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent team player with a passion for collaboration
• Familiarity with creating software tools and functionality, debugging code, and successfully incorporating feedback into your work
• Strong skills in solving complex problems with simple abstract solutions
• An interest in working with big data and machine learning
• Experience with using cloud platforms to solve problems
• Experience working in agile environments
• Strong communication skills and the ability to take on projects or tool autonomously

What You’ll Do:

• Support designing and perform hands-on building of applications that are reliable, scalable and easy to maintain
• Ensure that engineering quality standards are met within your team
• Contribute to architectural and code review discussions that impact our engineering ecosystem
• Collaborate with leads and engineers on your team to solve a wide variety of business and technical problems
• Ensure our systems are properly documented
• Contribute to the growth and development of the Wayfair engineering organization

Why You’ll Love Wayfair:

• Time Off:
• Paid Holidays
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Health & Wellness:
• Full Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA/FSA)
• Life Insurance
• Disability Protection (Short Term & Long Term Disability) 
• Global Wellbeing: Gym/Fitness discounts (including US Peloton, Global ClassPass, and various regional gym memberships)
• Mental Health Support (Global Mental Health, Global Wayhealthy Recordings)
• Caregiver Services
• Financial Growth & Security:
• 401K Matching (Employee Matching Program)
• Tuition Reimbursement 
• Financial Health Education (Knowledge of Financial Education - KOFE)
• Tax Advantaged Accounts
• Family Support:
• Family Planning Support
• Parental Leave
• Global Surrogacy & Adoption Policy
• Professional Development & Recognition:
• Rewards & Recognition 
• Global Employee Anniversary Awards 
• Paid Volunteer Work 
• Unique Perks:
• Employee Discount 
• U.S. Bluebikes Membership
• Global Pod Outings
• Work/Life Balance:
• Emphasizing a supportive & flexible work environment that encourages a balance between personal and professional commitments 

Purpose & Inclusion at Wayfair:
At Wayfair, we pride ourselves on fostering an environment where every individual experiences a fair and equitable employee journey. We are committed to developing targeted resources that raise awareness around inclusion and eliminate barriers, ensuring Wayfair provides a fair and inclusive workplace experience for everyone.

Social Impact & Responsibility:
At Wayfair, we focus on helping people on their journey to home - specifically those who have lost their way from home. We do this by leveraging our best assets, such as collaborating with leading nonprofit organizations, coordinating in-kind product donations, empowering our employees to get involved through paid volunteer time off programs, and encouraging our customers to donate. This multi-faceted approach allows us to support communities in need in authentic ways that align with Wayfair's broader mission of helping everyone, anywhere create their sense of home.

Wayfair's In-Office Policy:

All Boston-based interns, co-ops, and corporate employees will be in office in a hybrid capacity. Employees will work in the office on designated days, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and work remotely the other 2 days of the week.

For state-specific application information, please review the following applicant notices.

Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities

Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

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