Who We Are
Wayfair is one of the world's largest online destinations for the home, making it easy for shoppers to find exactly what they want from a selection of more than 40 million items across home furnishings, décor, home improvement, housewares, and more.
The Comms Batch atomic team sits within the Customer & Supplier Communications Pod. We own the systems that reliably generate, schedule, and deliver high-volume batch communications — order confirmations, shipment alerts, supplier notifications, and marketing-triggered messages — at Wayfair scale. Our pipelines process tens of millions of events per day with strict delivery SLAs, ensuring every customer and supplier receives the right message at the right moment through the right channel.
We partner closely with real-time messaging, data platform, and product teams to continuously improve reliability, throughput, and personalization of communications at scale.
What You'll Do
- Implement well-scoped features and bug fixes within the batch communications pipeline, working from tasks assigned by your engineering manager or senior teammates
- Write clean, tested, production-ready code against our distributed messaging infrastructure
- Participate in code reviews, giving and receiving structured feedback to uphold team quality standards
- Contribute unit and integration tests that protect pipeline reliability and delivery SLAs
- Investigate and resolve clearly scoped on-call incidents under guidance from senior engineers
- Collaborate with adjacent teams on cross-functional feature work as directed
- Leverage AI tooling responsibly to accelerate coding, debugging, and test writing.
- Collaborate to drive initiatives for adoption of Agentic AI Tooling for SDLC.
- Exposure to message queue systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS) or batch processing frameworks
- Familiarity with microservices architecture and REST APIs
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS) or containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
We Are a Match Because
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 0–1 years of professional software engineering experience (internships and co-ops count)
- Proficiency in at least one backend language — Go, PHP, Java, or Python — with a willingness to learn new languages on the job
- Foundational understanding of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design
- Ability to write and maintain unit tests and reason about test coverage
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
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.
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