Junior Software Development Engineer - Backend, Catalog - Remote

Overview

The OfferUp Catalog team is responsible for the key infrastructure that allows users to efficiently post items on our platform and make them available for potential buyers. Our team leverages various technologies and workflows to provide a meaningful user experience to our sellers and manages the core foundation and data used by the rest of the application. The team manages some of the highest TPS services within OfferUp. We have barely scratched the surface in terms of what we want to do, and the possibilities are endless.

In Short

• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features and/or iterations of existing features
• Contributes to developing the technical strategy for Catalog platform/features.
• Develops, tests, releases and documents code using best software engineering practices to ensure timely service delivery and ease of maintenance
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation.
• Collaborate if needed with third-party providers, and evaluate/debug/implement 3rd party SDKs.
• Identify, track and find solutions to software defects identified both internally and externally

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional software development experience
• Are a highly motivated person with a history of delivering quality code.
• Demonstrate strong coding skills Java (Required) and any other modern programming language like Kotlin, Python, Golang, Scala
• Strong knowledge of Data Structures and Algorithms
• Above all, an insatiable desire and ability to learn
• Exceptional self-management skills during the execution of complex problems and tasks
• You desire a fast-moving, continuous flow development environment
• BS or MS in Computer Science or related discipline
• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken (fluency in English required)

Benefits

• Experienced with Agile development
• Experience with building highly scalable web services
• Be comfortable designing services on top of cloud infrastructure like AWS
• Github repo with your own code we can view
• Hands on experience with real-time messaging systems