We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work on our Buyer Engineering team. As part of the buyer engineering team, you'll support our public-facing website, backend systems, iOS and Android applications that power the purchase experience. You'll push the boundaries of search personalization, SEO, and design as we make our customer experience even easier and better to shop. You'll also build supporting systems and integrate them with technology from around the company to improve buyer-related operations. We are looking for full-stack engineers who bring fresh ideas, enjoy learning every day, willing to expand their development skills and solve challenging problems and make a huge visible impact for our company.
What You Get To Do Every Day
- Produce high-quality, performant, testable code.
- Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback.
- Pair up with someone to work together on a feature.
- Learn something new, and collaborate with other engineers.
- Deploy to production multiple times.
- Help define technical strategy and architecture.
- Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors. Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions. Networks with senior internal and external personnel in their own area of expertise.
What You Bring To The Role
- 5+ years of professional web application / full-stack development experience.
- Fluency with any of Ruby, Elixir, Erlang, Go, Node.js, Python, PHP, or Scala. Ruby and Elixir are our primary languages - if you don’t have prior exposure to either of these, we have resources to help learn.
- Strong understanding of web technologies: HTML5, Javascript, CSS/SASS, REST, JSON.
- Strong understanding of web-app performance fundamentals and related dev tools.
- Strong database fundamentals and experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL.
- Worked with search engines such as ElasticSearch, Lucene, Solr.
- Experience using async message queues.
- Mastery of git and Github workflows.
- Advanced CS degree or equivalent