Software Development Engineer - Platform and Infrastructure
Bellevue, WA

Job Description

From the very beginning, OfferUp has believed that the right people united by the right mission can redefine the possible.

OfferUp is now the largest mobile marketplace for local buyers and sellers in the US. We connect millions of people every day, but we're still as committed as ever to the founding mission: to build the simplest, most trustworthy local marketplace. We help bring people together in their communities to exchange value, and we think that exchange is the foundation for a kind of commerce that redefines what "value" really means. In our world, the things we buy and sell are just the primer for the really important stuff, like meeting our neighbors, getting more connected to the places we live and the things that live with us, and creating a marketplace where everyone has something to offer.

AT A GLANCE

* A top shopping app on iTunes and Google Play
* Geekwire App of Year
* 60+ Million Downloads

OfferUp's Platform and Infrastructure team is looking for experienced and Senior Software Engineers. You will be a member of the teams that are responsible for handling the performance and scalability of the OfferUp platform, and help build tools and processes that increase engineering productivity. You will design and code systems in a very deliberate and thoughtful manner, as slight changes can impact everything in a major way. You take a performance minded approach to everything you do, and will help OfferUp continue to scale to many more millions of users.

Responsibilities:

* Build tools and services for other engineers to increase velocity/productivity
* Build and maintain high-performance, scalable systems
* Improve the reliability and efficiency of Offerup's core services
* Develop elegant solutions to complex problems
* Code using Java or Python

Requirements:

* Extensive experience with web infrastructure, distributed systems, performance analysis, and traffic manipulation
* 4+ years professional software development experience
* Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation)
* Experience in docker tool-chains
* Strong background with algorithms and data structures
* BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science (or related discipline)

Nice to have:

* Experience with AWS
* Experience designing fault-tolerant distributed systems
* Experience with Cassandra, Redis, Memcached, Postgres or Django
* Contributions to the open-source community

Come do work that matters. Join a team that believes when we all work together, we get more out of things.