Senior Software Engineer, Display and Sponsored Shops

This job posting is for an existing vacancy. Please click here/refer to Wayfair’s Career Page for information about how Wayfair uses AI to enhance its recruiting and hiring processes.

Who We Are

Display and Sponsored Shops (DSS) is Wayfair’s innovative advertising platform, enabling suppliers to maximize product visibility and drive sales across Wayfair US, Wayfair CA, and Wayfair Professional. Leveraging both internal and external technologies, DSS provides advanced ad placements that enhance the shopping experience while delivering measurable impact for brands.

Now, We’re scaling Sponsored Shops at Wayfair—an existing product where we’re actively experimenting and iterating to drive impact. Sponsored Shops help suppliers showcase curated catalogs through Shops ad and a customizable landing page that improves discovery, engagement, and conversions.

If you're excited about building the future of advertising in e-commerce and want to be part of a dynamic, high-growth team, we’d love to hear from you!

Interested in learning more about Wayfair’s Engineering community? 

  • Check out our Wayfair Tech Blog:

  • Kamal Jagadevan leads our DSS Engineering team

Brijesh Sharma is the Head of Advertising Engineering


What You’ll Do:


As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical vision, architecture, and execution of Wayfair’s next-generation video advertising platform. You will:

  • Define and drive the architecture for scalable, high-performance video ad serving solutions.

  • Make strategic technical decisions, balancing innovation, scalability, and operational efficiency.

  • Lead cross-functional collaboration, working closely with engineering, product, and business teams to design and implement complex ad-serving workflows.

  • Guide technical direction on areas such as dynamic ad insertion, targeting strategies, and advanced ad placement optimizations.

  • Mentor and influence engineering teams, establishing best practices for software development, system reliability, and performance tuning.

  • Evaluate and introduce new technologies, ensuring the platform is built with modern, forward-looking architecture that meets business needs at scale

We Are a Match Because You Have:


  • 5+ years of experience architecting highly complex, interconnected systems that solved complex business problems

  • 8+ years of experience in backend software engineering using object oriented language and preferably Java

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience

  • Experience working with relational and non-relational databases

  • Experience working with event-driven architectures, DDD, and TDD

  • Mastery of some flavor of modern frontend frameworks and technologies like React, Redux, etc

  • Experience in Big Data technologies like Apache Kafka/Apache spark/Nosql databases

  • Preferred experience in the CI/CD tools/platforms like Buildkite/Docker/Kubernetes.

  • Experience with  Cloud Native architecture platforms like Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure.

  • Experience in system monitoring using tools like DataDog etc.



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:

    • RRSP (Registered Retirement Savings Plan)

    • 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 

    • Global Pod Outings

  • Work/Life Balance:

    • Emphasizing a supportive & flexible work environment that encourages a balance between personal and professional commitments 

We are looking forward to your application!


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 Accomodations for Applicants form.
 
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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 ( 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. 

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