Senior Software Engineer- Metadata at Wayfair (Boston, MA)

When was the last time you bought a piece of furniture without looking at it first?

The Product Media software development team builds platforms and writes software to both produce and manage our media content. We design and maintain state of the art 3D asset model production processes to provide a rich experience via Augmented Reality for our customers, as well as create beautiful environmental images of our products. We also maintain the tools and data behind the media assets that drive the customer experience

As the web continues to become a battleground for the home market, we need to stay ahead of the game with providing our customer an experience that rivals stepping into a physical store.

If you're interested in helping our customers visually see how our products can make their home beautiful, we'd love to talk to you. We're looking for smart, self-driven, outgoing Engineers to join our growing team to help us manage our ever growing library of assets across thousands of products and categories. We work at scale and think about our customers first. We love to move fast and deliver high quality solutions to challenging business problems.

What you'll get to do:

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• Learn and teach alongside engineers and write the code that drives Wayfair's product media
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• Design scalable, resilient architecture to solve complex (and growing!) business problems in an agile environment.
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• Contribute to coding and quality standards.
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• Build intuitive web tools for the production and management of all of Wayfair's media assets
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• Write robust, well-tested backend code with PHP, C#, or Python
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• Work with Product and business stakeholders to find creative solutions to challenging business problems and guide a team toward quick wins, good design and long-term stability
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• Move fast, make things
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About you:

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• Collaborative, team-first personality and a sense of humor
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• At least 4 years of relevant web programming experience
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• A great understanding of Object Oriented Design, MVC, and web architecture
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• Confidence interfacing with business stakeholders to gather requirements and translate requirements into software architecture
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• SQL Database design, development and performance optimization experience
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• Experience working in a distributed or highly transactional environment
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