Staff Software Engineer, Etsy
Inventory
$197-231k
+ Equity package + Annual performance bonus
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office (Brooklyn, NY)
eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
Job no longer available
eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$197-231k
+ Equity package + Annual performance bonus
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office (Brooklyn, NY)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To keep human connection at the heart of commerce.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience
- You come from working on the Inventory ecosystem as your day to day work and are passionate about idea of implementing best practices and building some critical ideas that can help optimize all aspects of the Inventory systems
- You are a full stack Web developer, stronger in backend development
- You have experience in information retrieval systems and the ability to write high performance production quality code
- You have the capacity to operate within a large codebase and you know how to craft simplicity from complex systems and understand the fundamentals of building robust services
- Proficiency in PHP and MySQL is a plus
- You are familiar with React and overall frontend development
- Experience updating complex data models in performant ways (like knowing how to implement parallel writes for optimizations)
- Holds significant experience working with relational databases and feels confident diving into the database
- Flexibility with different programming languages and cloud-native environments
- Partnering as a strong collaborator and communicator and making the team around you grow and learn
- Taking the lead on advising and implementing solutions to significantly complex unscoped problems
- Demonstrate written understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability
- You enjoy thinking about the implications of your work on end users, and have an understanding of the various aspects involved in running a large-scale website
- Experience leading, mentoring, and coaching other engineers in a compassionate manner
- Successful track record of planning and leading complex projects to completion
- A growth mindset with excitement towards receiving feedback and learning opportunities
- A strong sense of ownership towards your work
- A desire to understand the “why” behind what we are doing
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Staff Engineer II to take the lead on directing and implementing solutions to significantly complex, unscoped problems.
- Your work will extend to many parts of the domain and may influence your entire department or domain
- You will set the technical direction for your teammates, improve the overall quality of engineering done on your team, and consistently take steps to support the growth and success of your teammates
- This is a full-time position reporting to the Director of Inventory & Fulfillment Systems.
- This role is situated in a newly created organization focused on inventory. Etsy is investing in new foundational infrastructure, data architecture, and a deeper understanding of the data that makes up Etsy’s catalog of our seller’s unique items
- Etsy is seeking a senior engineering individual contributor who can bring industry-grounded experience to lead technical designs and guide decision-making around trade-offs
- Providing daily support for peers across Etsy (ex. writing documentation, reviewing pull requests, answering Slack questions, auditing new features, hosting office hours and classes)
- Contributing at all levels of Etsy’s inventory/catalog stacks, ranging from application back-end technologies (PHP) as well as front-end stack (Preact, Redux Toolkit, Formik, Vest)
- Developing and maintaining critical path product services
- Provide detailed and constructive design and code reviews
- Gaining insights through research, data analysis, and our A/B tests
- Pushing code to production early and often using our continuous deployment systems
- Building and maintaining observability and test tooling - logging, monitoring, distributed tracing, alerting and offline test tools needed for search and recommendation systems
- Practicing continuous learning and agile delivery models to stay informed and focused on our deliverables
- 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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