Remote in Bay Area until at least July 2021
Clients prefer LOCAL candidates and a DIVERSITY Candidate!!
Technical Stack: Golang, Scala, Python, Data-Driven
This client is transforming the customer service experience end-to-end, building a marketplace that matches millions of people with local pros for almost any project.
Job Description:
The Marketplace Dynamics team builds the core data-driven systems that power their matching and monetization engines. Their mission is to optimize how we match customers and pros and monetize the transaction to create a growing marketplace where more and more jobs get done every day.
This client's challenges are deeply technical and span a wide range of domains from infrastructure, to data, to the product. Examples of recent efforts include: building a low latency search serving stack, optimizing Machine Learning systems for ranking and pricing, or crafting product features like search auto-suggest. As an engineer on this team, you will have the opportunity to help this client build out these nascent data-driven systems from the ground up.
Responsibilities
- Solve tough technical problems in our marketplace, which may involve challenges across infrastructure, machine learning, or product experience.
- Own and drive major engineering efforts end-to-end, starting from analysis, prioritization, and systems design, to eventually deploying production quality code, all with a tenacious focus on user impact.
- Run experiments to test hypotheses about our marketplace.
- Mentor junior engineers and actively contribute to shared resources in our engineering community.
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to plan and execute engineering projects.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years of industry experience in engineering, with at least two years in a technical leadership role.
- You’re fluent in at least one major programming language and would be able to switch between multiple languages. Technical stack mainly use is Golang, Scala, Python, and some PHP.
- Have led major efforts or teams to build large-scale data-driven systems in production, especially in search ranking, ad quality, or other products backed by machine learning.
- You can break down complex problems rigorously and understand the tradeoffs necessary to deliver great, impactful products.
- Strong critical thinking skills and experience - willingness to ask questions
- You’re comfortable communicating about your work with both technical and non-technical team members, including fellow engineers, product managers, designers, and analysts.
- You know what it means to write high quality, maintainable, testable code, and you enjoy doing it.
Desired Skills and Qualifications
- Strong product sense and experience working on a user-facing consumer product.
- Quantitative analysis experience and has a strong understanding of metrics and analytics, and is able to connect data with end user impact.
- Experience scaling an ad serving, e-commerce (B-2-C), or search serving stack at scale.