Software Engineer II
Company: Wayfair LLC
Location: Boston, MA
Posted on: June 8, 2017
Job Description:
Position: Software Engineer II (Performance Engineering) This posting covers multiple openings for the position
described. Duties: Identify and resolve site performance problems,
including investigating issues affecting customer-facing sites that get
millions of views per day. Instrument single-page JavaScript applications
for advanced performance monitoring, and build out both synthetic
and real user monitoring. Rebuild site features and develop creative
solutions to enhance speed. Analyze performance metrics and create plans
for improvements across the entire webstack. Utilize AB test
site performance technologies to assess impact on customer behavior.
Mentor, educate and advocate for web performance across all engineering
teams. Determine which measurements monitor to ensure that the data
analytics team collects appropriate metrics. Perform R&D of new web
technologies. Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering
or related field (willing to accept foreign education equivalent)
plus one (1) year of experience performing PHP, SQL and JavaScript
web development. Also requires demonstrated expertise performing
full-stack web development using PHP, JavaScript, HTML/CSS and SQL;
developing software using MVC programming paradigm; writing queries,
stored procedures, triggers and schema design using MSSQL;
administering Linux systems, writing shell scripts and using puppet for
configuration management; managing servers such as Nginx, and utilizing
HTTP fundamentals; using web performance profiling tools such as
xhprof and webpagetest, and analyzing the collected data; and using node.js
for asynchronous programming. Submit resume to Wayfair LLC, Brad Williams, 100 Huntington
Avenue 4 Copley Place, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 or viahttps://jobs.wayfaircareers.com/jobs/o2fq5fww
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