Senior Software Development Engineer - 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 as well as 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

• Develop a technical strategy for our team
• Develop highly scalable real-time microservices without compromising on reliability, latency, and monitoring.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to design and implement new features
• Collaborate with OfferUp wide engineering teams to surface common pain points, develop solutions and evangelize best practices
• Identify when to replace and when to rebuild legacy systems
• Support, mentor, and help other engineers in the team
• Participate in a reasonable on-call rotation with the rest of the team
• Collaborate with stakeholders to drive features and assess timelines.
• Help maintain code quality in existing applications.
• Create solutions and/or frameworks that make other team members better and faster

Requirements

• 5+ years professional software engineering experience
• Experience performing data analysis and translating the results into business recommendations
• Experience in working with data-driven applications at scale
• Strong coding skills in Java(required), and any other modern programming language coupled with strong knowledge in object-oriented design and microservices architecture
• Experience with AWS and other Cloud infrastructures
• Hands on experience with real-time messaging systems
• Hands on experience in designing and building microservices and scalable distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of Data Structures and Object Oriented Design
• Hands on experience with load balancing, and handling large data traffic
• An insatiable desire and ability to learn
• You desire a fast moving, continuous flow development environment
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation and benefits package
• Equity in OfferUp based on performance
• Health insurance and healthcare savings accounts
• Retirement savings benefits (401(k) plan with match)
• Basic and voluntary life insurance
• Disability benefits
• Paid time off for sick leave and vacation
• Flexible vacation policy (3-5 weeks per year)
• 12 days of sick time per year
• Details about specific benefits shared during the interview process