Senior Software Engineer, Etsy
Machine Learning
$170-200k
+ Equity package & annual performance bonus.
More information about location
eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
Job no longer available
eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$170-200k
+ Equity package & annual performance bonus.
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To keep human connection at the heart of commerce.
Role
Who you are
- Do you find joy in sophisticated architectures that involve distributed systems, machine learning and multiple collaborators?
- This is a fantastic opportunity for someone interested in building state-of-the-art ML infrastructure to surface hundreds of millions of unique, handmade, vintage listings to 90+ million buyers from 6+ million sellers
- You have proven engineering and coding skills, data structure knowledge and ability to write high performance production quality code
- Background and hands-on experience with Cloud technologies (Google Cloud or AWS)
- You are a strong collaborator and communicator and make the engineers around you grow & learn
- You have built low-latency high-scale distributed services with technologies such as gRPC, Docker, Kubernetes, Spark, etc
- You possess fundamental experience with platform engineering and strong troubleshooting skills
- Prior experience with ML platforms, as well as in caching preferred
What the job involves
- Etsy is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Perso Engine Foundations squad, a platform team that supports all recommendation systems at Etsy
- Our team builds and maintains core infrastructure to serve real-time machine learning recommendations that surface the most relevant and interesting listings to our buyers
- We are a cross-functional group of engineers, product managers, and we work closely with Applied Machine Learning (ML) Scientists working on cutting-edge foundational tools and software that accelerate model prototyping, scale up access to data, and create flexible solutions that increase the velocity of our applied scientists
- This is a full-time position reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager, ML Systems
- Build and maintain foundational ML infrastructure tools for generating personalized recommendations from trained algorithms with point-in-time accuracy
- Create modular components (e.g., filtering, logging, etc.) to add to recommendation pipelines to help support low-latency, high capacity model inferencing
- Engineer pipelines that will enable Applied Scientists to be able to monitor the health of the recommendation systems on any given module
- Work with Applied Scientists to test and enable the latest ML paradigms in information retrieval, e.g., LLMs, uplift modeling, reward learning, and other cutting edge algorithms
- Develop distributed infrastructure with containerized environments and optimized storage layers to support new feature development
- Build scalable and resilient services and APIs for product teams to interact with feature systems, model training, and new ML features
- Lead and coordinate cross-team projects across the organization and actively promote best practices and industry standards to maintain the high quality of the product and services
- Actively work with leadership and product teams on the roadmap and new features
- Coach and train junior team members
- Of course, this is just a sample of the kinds of work this role will require! You should assume that your role will encompass other tasks, too, and that your job duties and responsibilities may change from time to time at Etsy's discretion, or otherwise applicable with local law
Our take
Created as an alternative to more corporate eCommerce sites, Etsy is a peer-to-peer (P2P) website where users buy and sell handmade crafts, vintage items, art, and photography. The online marketplace works similarly to Amazon and eBay, only with an emphasis on unique items rather than mass-produced merchandise.
Since its IPO in 2015, it has managed to hold its own in an increasingly competitive eCommerce industry, including from Amazon's handmade section that launched in 2015. Further, by providing sellers with ownership over pricing and branding, the site is attractive for those wanting to set up a business on an established platform.
However, the seller-side of Etsy is not without problems. The recent hike in transaction fees and the introduction of mandatory marketing fees for artists with high turnovers has created significant discontent amongst sellers. Etsy must reconcile these issues to ensure artists continue to operate on the same scale within the platform. It plans to attract shoppers with its message of extraordinary, handmade and affordable products.
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Company Specialist
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2012
$40m
LATE VC
Aug 2010
$20m
SERIES E
Total funding: $91.7m
Company benefits
- Equity (offers vary by country)
- Performance bonuses
- Paid gender neutral parental leave
- Adoption and family planning
- Back-up care
- Volunteer time off
- Donation matching
- Employee resource groups
- Global virtual events
- Employer paid health benefits
- Fitness benefits
- Wellness programming
- Mental health benefits
- 401K matching/Pension contributions
Company values
- We commit to our craft - Our work has the power to change lives. That’s why we strive to learn continuously and excel at what we do
- We minimize waste - Time, resources, and energy are precious, so we focus only on what will have the greatest impact
- We embrace differences - Diverse teams are stronger, and inclusive cultures are more resilient. When we seek out different perspectives, we make better decisions and build better products
- We dig deeper - The best solutions to meaningful challenges are rarely easy or obvious. We stay curious, balance our intuition with insights, and decide with confidence
- We lead with optimism - We believe in our mission, and we believe in each other. We see the world as it is, set ambitious goals, and inspire one another with generosity of spirit. Together, we reimagine what is possible
Company HQ
Downtown Brooklyn, NY
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Leadership
Josh Silverman
(CEO)Previously senior executive at eBay, CEO of Shopping.com, CEO of Skype and President of Consumer Products & Services at American Express.
People progressing
Became the Director of International Strategy and Operations after a year and 2 months as a senior manager in the division. After nearly 5 years in that role, they became Director of Marketing and International Strategy & Operations, and six months after that was promoted to Senior Director in that same department.
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Diversity & Inclusion at Etsy
- Diversity is a priority at Etsy, owned by everyone:
- A diverse workforce is critical to Etsy’s success—it makes us a stronger, better, more resilient and more relevant company. We have an inclusive culture and each of us actively creates opportunities for underrepresented groups to join, thrive and advance at Etsy
- We welcome all perspectives:
- As individuals, we invite a variety of viewpoints and experiences—especially when they conflict with our own. We encourage questions more than statements, and provide a safe environment in which all employees can surface and discuss concerns
- We measure and share openly:
- We contribute to broader progress by evaluating, iterating and transparently communicating our successes and failures internally and externally
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