Back End Engineer
The Engineering team is hiring a Back End Engineer for our New York office. This role offers an incredible opportunity to contribute to an innovative, global online marketplace. You’ll work with the latest technology patterns and services, delivering impactful solutions for a vibrant and fast-growing global community.
What you’ll do:
- Design GRPC & RESTful Java Spring based web services utilizing caching, messaging and asynchronous processing
- Use the latest AWS, Google, Hashicorp solutions such as ECS, EMR, S3, Lambda, Dynamo, BigQuery, Consul and Terraform
- Work with open source technologies including Apache Solr, Spark, Zookeeper and other software products to make the most beautiful things in the world available to customers
- Work in a dynamic agile environment, assessing business requirements and choosing the right tools for the job
- Use kanban and version control tools to be an efficient software engineer
- Work with analytics tools using big data to establish trends, personalizations, and recommendations
- Work closely with an outstanding Product organization to envision and craft solutions. Thinking through how to AB-test features so that we can make measurable impacts on our key metrics.
Requirements:
- 1-2 years of Java experience and understanding
- Genuine passion for architecting software solutions
- Adding to organizational efficiency through contributing to shared libraries and components
- Experience providing thoughtful code reviews, mentorship
- Ability to bring your intellectual curiosity and thoughtful opinions with you every single day
- Ability to fix and explain performance bottlenecks
Nice To Haves:
- An appreciation for one-of-a-kind items such as furniture, art, and jewelry is always welcome
- Your participation in the larger Developer Community is strongly supported and encouraged!
- Fluency with a version control system, and some project management tool