Staff Software Development Engineer

About the role:

The OfferUp Consumer team is responsible for the key infrastructure that allows users to efficiently post items on our platform, then search and display those items for potential buyers. Our team leverages various technologies and workflows to provide a meaningful user experience to our customers along with the core foundation and data used by the rest of the application. Ownership includes homefeed, search, and the item catalog. The team manages some of the highest RPS and TPS services within OfferUp. We have barely scratched the surface in terms of what we want to do and the possibilities are endless.

At many organizations, your role begins and ends with the code. On our team, we’re different. You own a feature from concept to fruition. Your responsibilities will include everything from writing well architected and thoroughly tested code, to rolling out the feature by analyzing metrics. You also get to take ownership beyond your technical area by working with cross-functional team members.

As a Staff Software Development Engineer on our team, you will grow the team from as both a technical lead and individual contributor. You will set the technical strategy for the team, develop/deploy multiple features with high operational excellence, continuously improve our engineering/operational excellence, and find innovative ways to meet business needs.

Here’s more of what you will get to do:

• 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

You’ll thrive in this role if you have:

• 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-orie