Engineering Manager, Etsy
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$209-271k
+ Equity package and an annual performance bonus
More information about location
eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
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eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$209-271k
+ Equity package and an annual performance bonus
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To keep human connection at the heart of commerce.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive hands-on experience with high-volume, reliable user-facing experiences and their supporting backend systems within large codebases
- Proven ability to work with non-engineering teams (Product, Design, Analytics) to deliver end-to-end systems, utilizing A/B testing for product updates
- Experience setting technical strategy and shaping team processes for effective delivery
- Skilled in coaching engineers and possessing excellent written and oral communication
- Familiarity with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Redux) and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure), including containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
- 3+ years of experience in people management
- Ability to make data-driven decisions and promote high-quality technical decision-making, excelling in an experimentation and metrics-driven environment
What the job involves
- Etsy is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the team that is improving the listing experience for sellers
- You’ll help deliver a re-envisioned suite of experiences that enable millions of sellers to showcase their products and craft to interested buyers
- You’ll do this by helping deliver robust, scalable, full-stack products with updates grounded in experiments that will A/B tested live on Etsy.com and our Seller App
- Your team will test new ideas, respond to seller research, and ship delightful solutions that support sellers in providing more complete and accurate information about their inventory
- Staying at the forefront of technology, you’ll bring ideas that enable your team to rapidly iterate while maintaining a high bar for quality
- This is a full-time position reporting to a Director of Engineering within the Inventory & Fulfillment Systems team, which focuses on high impact improvements for connecting buyers to items that meet their shopping mission and supports sellers in meeting buyer expectations
- For candidates within commutable distance, Etsy requires in-office attendance once or twice per week depending on your proximity to the office
- This team plays an important role in matching buyers with items that meet their shopping missions by supporting our sellers, building experiences so that sellers can provide information that better matches buyers with items they want to see and drives higher buyer satisfaction that the item received is as expected
- Here’s a glimpse of the type of problems you’ll help solve:
- Launch improvements to the listing creation process that simplify the entire process for sellers so that sellers can have confidence their items meet buyer expectations and marketplace guidelines
- Integrate machine learning models to guide sellers through the process, educating them on marketplace best practices with data backed recommendations to support them in reaching buyers
- Enable sellers to better articulate the breadth of options they offer to buyers and get buyer input with ease during the purchase process
- Develop features that streamline the management of sellers’ inventory, enabling them to scale and run their business with confidence
- Day to day you'll lead the engineering team within the context of product engineering, establishing effective process that increases collaboration across disciplines
- Lead a fast paced, data-driven, and agile team of 6 engineers to build systems that measurably improve the seller listing experience in close partnership with product teams
- Take part in the end-to-end recruiting process, hiring and on-boarding exceptional engineering talent
- Serve as a coach, mentor, and advocate for the engineers on your team
- Work with other leaders within engineering to develop and evolve engineering processes and standard methodologies
- Establish strong cross-functional relationships with product engineers, product managers, user researchers, designers, analysts as well as platform, data, and infrastructure teams
- Leverage established tools built by our enablement teams and help create new paved paths within product engineering context
- 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
- 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
Application process
- Please share your resume with us and feel free to include a cover letter if you'd like
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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