Software Engineer II - Frontend Engineer

🏢 About Wayfair

Wayfair is one of the world's largest online destinations for home furnishings, decor, and housewares. Combining advanced consumer e-commerce technology with an extensive proprietary logistics network, Wayfair provides seamless shopping and delivery experiences for millions of homes worldwide. Its digital operations and supply chain engineering teams create high-volume enterprise platforms that manage warehouse systems, catalog workflows, and tracking pipelines.

🎯 The Role

As a Software Engineer II - Frontend Engineer based in Bangalore, India (Hybrid), you will join Wayfair's dedicated supply chain and logistics engineering division. You will partner with backend engineers, UX designers, and product managers to translate complex operational requirements into resilient, high-speed frontend applications. You will also help evaluate frontend technology choices, define UI engineering standards, and mentor peers across the organization.

🛠️ Tech Stack

• React, HTML5, modern JavaScript, TypeScript
• Redux, Flux, Web Components
• Webpack, build tooling, performance profiling
• Node.js & Express
• Version control & CI/CD (Git, GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI)
• Browser APIs, DOM rendering optimization, Core Web Vitals

💼 What You'll Do

• Work with backend engineers, UX designers, and product managers to understand requirements and translate designs into production-ready implementation.
• Develop, test rigorously, and ship resilient frontend code adhering to industry best practices and high testing standards.
• Evaluate frontend technology choices for the supply chain division, introducing frontend engineering standards that team engineers can follow.
• Contribute to technical documentation and lead knowledge-sharing sessions for the wider engineering organization.
• Drive initiatives to make client-side architectures scalable, extensible, and fault-tolerant.
• Develop proof-of-concept solutions to assess technology outcomes, performance trade-offs, and browser constraints.
• Take complete end-to-end ownership of frontend tasks, proactively managing dependencies and deadlines.

✅ What You'll Need

• Minimum 3+ years of professional web development experience.
• Strong hands-on development expertise in modern frontend technologies: HTML5, modern JavaScript, TypeScript, and React.
• Proficiency with React ecosystem tooling including Redux, Webpack, and component-driven development.
• Deep fundamentals in web standards, browser APIs, DOM rendering lifecycle, asynchronous programming, and application performance tuning.
• Working experience with Node.js and frameworks such as Express.
• Experience across the entire SDLC including automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and version control workflows.
• Strong customer obsession, ownership mindset, and excellent cross-functional communication skills.

🌟 Nice to Have

• Experience in large-scale e-commerce, fulfillment, supply chain, or warehouse logistics software.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and conducting structured, insightful code reviews.
• Familiarity with relational database schema design and distributed client-server architecture.