Software Engineer, Etsy
$205-237k
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eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
Open for applications
eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$205-237k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To keep human connection at the heart of commerce.
Role
Who you are
- You have 2+ years of proven web development experience and are excited to grow along with the team
- You have experience building web applications, using both back-end and front-end technologies (we use PHP, MySQL, TypeScript, JavaScript, and React)
- Any experience with Scala, Airflow, or basic understanding of ML algorithms and recommendation systems is a bonus
- You are comfortable collaborating closely with product managers and designers, providing estimates or product ideas that will influence your team’s roadmap
- You have a “leave it better than you found it” mentality, and are willing to work with and improve on code you did not originally write
- You thrive when faced with customer and product-focused challenges and care as much about building great products as you do writing great code
- You love to experiment and use both quantitative and qualitative methods to drive decision-making
- You enjoy being a mentor and mentee
- You take pride in owning work from ideation through completion
- You are a mindful, transparent and thoughtful communicator
What the job involves
- The Web Recommendations team is focused on enhancing the user journey throughout the Etsy marketplace, focusing on creating high quality Discovery experiences. We work to reduce friction for our buyers, making sure they have an easy and inspiring experience throughout their buying journey
- We also work to improve performance and architecture to pave the way for future product features
- We are a cross-functional product development team consisting of engineers, product managers, designers, product marketers, data analysts and user researchers. We collaborate closely and learn via data, user interviews, experimentation and iteration so that we can take a holistic approach to improving the buyer experience
- Be responsible for the design, development and implementation of highly maintainable and scalable systems by contributing at all levels of our web application stack
- Collaborate with teammates to independently tackle well-scoped problems, regularly deliver work to end users and be a primary contributor to team’s goals
- Contribute to and lead projects - such as enhancing the UX and data powering recommendations modules, and make it easier to build new features through product as well as technical investments
- Continuously learn from your teammates and share your own insights with them
- Regularly push code to production using our continuous deployment systems
- Create and update reusable components that are used by product teams across all of Etsy
- Run and iterate on experiments to learn the impact of the changes you work on
- Participate in code and design reviews to ensure high code quality
- Of course, this is just a sample of the kinds of work this role will require! You should assume that your role will encompass other tasks, too, and that your job duties and responsibilities may change from time to time at Etsy's discretion, or otherwise applicable with local law
Our take
Created as an alternative to more corporate eCommerce sites, Etsy is a peer-to-peer (P2P) website where users buy and sell handmade crafts, vintage items, art, and photography. The online marketplace works similarly to Amazon and eBay, only with an emphasis on unique items rather than mass-produced merchandise.
Since its IPO in 2015, it has managed to hold its own in an increasingly competitive eCommerce industry, including from Amazon's handmade section that launched in 2015. Further, by providing sellers with ownership over pricing and branding, the site is attractive for those wanting to set up a business on an established platform.
However, the seller-side of Etsy is not without problems. The recent hike in transaction fees and the introduction of mandatory marketing fees for artists with high turnovers has created significant discontent amongst sellers. Etsy must reconcile these issues to ensure artists continue to operate on the same scale within the platform. It plans to attract shoppers with its message of extraordinary, handmade and affordable products.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2012
$40m
LATE VC
Aug 2010
$20m
SERIES E
Total funding: $91.7m
Company benefits
- Equity (offers vary by country)
- Performance bonuses
- Paid gender neutral parental leave
- Adoption and family planning
- Back-up care
- Volunteer time off
- Donation matching
- Employee resource groups
- Global virtual events
- Employer paid health benefits
- Fitness benefits
- Wellness programming
- Mental health benefits
- 401K matching/Pension contributions
Company HQ
Downtown Brooklyn, NY
Leadership
Josh Silverman
(CEO)Previously senior executive at eBay, CEO of Shopping.com, CEO of Skype and President of Consumer Products & Services at American Express.
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