Senior Machine Learning Software Engineer, Etsy
$183-216k
+ Equity and bonus
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eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
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eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$183-216k
+ Equity and bonus
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To keep human connection at the heart of commerce.
Role
Who you are
- Possess 2+ years experience within a machine learning environment at scale
- Enjoy thinking about the implications of your work on end users
- You are comfortable collaborating with Machine Learning Applied Scientists, Product Managers, Data Analysts, and Designers to ensure that you’re delivering impactful product features
- Have experience operating within a large codebase and working to create simplicity from complex systems, including using experiments and data to drive decision making
- Are an analytical thinker and understand how to wield data to make informed decisions about your work
- Write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability
- You turn ideas into deeply reliable and well tested code that other people – or you, six months into the future – will find easy to comprehend and modify
- You have worked with machine learning and understand the needs of data scientists and ML engineers
- You have solid engineering and coding skills, data structure knowledge and ability to write high performance production quality code
- Extensive professional experience with objective-oriented programming languages: Python, Java, Scala, etc
- Familiarity with machine learning and deep learning solutions across the entire machine learning stack, from data collection to evaluation
- Experience with machine learning frameworks (like PySpark, Scalding, etc.)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- We are language-agnostic in our approach to interviewing
What the job involves
- Build and contribute at all levels of Etsy’s recommendations stack, ranging from application interfaces to back-end technologies (Python, MySQL, Scala, Vertica) as well as the machine learning stack (PySpark, Google Cloud Platform, Airflow)
- Work cross-functionally with various engineering teams (e.g. machine learning infrastructure, data science, search experience), participating in design, prioritization and implementation
- Deploy models to production, sometimes including application development for your feature
- Provide detailed and constructive design and code reviews
- Empathy, communication, and technical skill are valued equally
- In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with our ML team, Data Platform team and many product squads. We’re a growing team with a huge impact that builds tools and platform capabilities for data scientists and ML engineers to access feature data, build machine learning models, test hypotheses and productionize them on our ML platform hosted in Google Cloud. We value empathy, communication and technical skills equally. Here’s a taste of the problems we’re solving:
- How can we help someone find that perfect item, even when they don’t know what they’re looking for?
- How can the recommendations experience make Etsy come to life and feel as vibrant as the community of makers that’s behind it?
- How can we understand buyer’s motives and interests to personalize their experience?
- How can we help buyers to explore the breadth of Etsy's inventory?
- Our production systems rely on PHP, JavaScript, Java, Python and Scala; we are proud to have an engineering culture that encourages career growth and learning. You can learn more about our philosophies, tools, and some of the challenges we’ve been solving on our Engineering blog: http://codeascraft.com/
- 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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