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Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer II, you will be responsible for taking the lead on directing and implementing solutions to moderately complex, loosely scoped problems that are aligned with your team's goals. Your work extends to many parts of a product or system. You deliver projects independently or by leading your teammates to do so. You enable other engineers on your team to be successful.

The CRM Experiences team plays a critical role in enabling buyer- and seller-facing communication. Collaborating closely with the machine learning team, we enhance personalization across diverse channels like emails, push notifications, and more. Our work involves creating robust data pipelines to ensure accurate information flow, as well as developing monitoring tools and dashboards to maintain the health of the entire CRM system. Joining this fun and supportive team offers the opportunity to make a tangible impact on user engagement while working at the forefront of data-driven innovation.

The Senior Software Engineer II will be responsible for:

• Contribute at all levels of Etsy’s search and recommendations stacks, ranging from application back-end technologies (Scala, Java, Python) as well as machine learning stack (Spark, Scalding, Airflow).
• Working cross-functionally with platform teams, ML teams and product partners to build the next generation of data discovery platform in the cloud.
• Developing and maintaining critical path product services.
• Build sophisticated solutions to help our buyers discover items from Etsy’s outstanding and diverse listings inventory for their personalized shopping missions.
• Prototype, optimize, and productionize large-scale product improvements that deliver key results.
• Collaborate with product managers, product designers, analysts, researchers, and other full-stack engineers to deliver optimal content to tens of millions of users.
• Mentor and coach other engineers on your team and across the company to help them succeed.
• Demonstrate leadership on every project, whether as a tech-lead or a contributor.
• Regularly ship performant PHP, JavaScript, and TypeScript using our continuous delivery pipeline.
• Utilize Grafana and our in-house analytics tools to capture information and gain insights to help the team iterate.
  
  

The Senior Software Engineer II will demonstrate: (List out at least 3 to 5 qualifications)

• 5+ years of practical software development experience.
• Strong experience in PHP.
• An analytical approach to understand how to wield data to make informed decisions about your work
• Experience writing understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability
• Experience working within a large codebase and strive to create simplicity from complex systems. You generally leave things in nicer shape than you found them.
• Strong communication skills and are willing to take on a mentoring role with teammates and peers.
• Partnering as a unit on a multi-functional product team with Product Managers, Designers, Researchers, and Data Analysts.
• Experience with Scala is a plus.
  
  

To be successful in this role, the Senior Software Engineer II will work collaboratively with your teammates to independently tackle well-scoped problems, regularly deliver work to end users and are a primary contributor to your team's goals.