Job Description

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.