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
Become an SME for team ownership areas

Requirements

8+ 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
Experience using good judgment to balance engineering improvements with business needs
Experience developing a short and long term vision for a set of services/features
Experience guiding and mentoring junior members
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 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

health insurance
healthcare savings and spending accounts
retirement savings benefits (401(k) plan with match)
basic and voluntary life insurance
disability benefits
paid time off for sick leave, family and/or medical leave, vacation, and 12 company holidays
flexible vacation policy

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools

Javamicroservicesdata analysisobject-oriented designscalable distributed systemsload balancingdata structurescloud infrastructuredata-driven applicationsengineering improvements

Soft Skills

collaborationmentoringcommunicationproblem-solvingjudgmentleadershipadaptabilitystrategic thinkingtime managementteamwork

Certifications

BS in Computer ScienceMS in Computer Science