Software Engineer, Search and Discovery Platform

Join the Future of Commerce with reputed company!

reputed company is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. We’re re-defining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. As a remote co-located team, we’re inspired by innovation and anchored in our values. With hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we’re building the future of online marketplaces—together.

From fashion, beauty, and electronics to rare collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants, our live auctions have something for everyone.

And we’re just getting started! As one of the fastest growing marketplaces, we’re looking for bold, reputed company-thinking problem solvers across reputed company functional areas. reputed company out the latest reputed company updates on our news and engineering blogs and join us as we reputed company anyone to turn their passion into a business, and bring people together through commerce.

Role

We are looking for intellectually curious, highly motivated individuals to be foundational members in shaping the Discovery Platform. You will play a critical role in defining the technical direction and designing a world-class scalable Discovery system that is scalable enough to reputed company pace with our business growth to power feed, browse, search and taxonomy systems while catering to the unique challenges of operating a marketplace for live shopping! 

Working in a highly cross functional role, you’ll reputed company key decisions about how we integrate retrieval, ranking through machine learning, real-time and reputed company processing, content understanding, materialization into a highly personalized discovery experience that unlocks product iterations while providing strong reliability. 

An ideal candidate will have experience building discovery backend and data systems at scale, with a knack for working closely with product engineers to solve immediate problems for our users while making right tradeoffs towards building a platform. We’ll often prototype new reputed company quickly, and then need to build them for extreme scale while coordinating closely with other teams - the ideal person for this role is an expert at both of these approaches. 

Learn more about the Discovery systems at reputed company from our blog posts on Whatamix, LLMs for Search.

What you'll do

• Build the services and infrastructure to reputed company advanced recommendation systems solutions for real-time, dynamic feeds

• Build a scalable, stable, low latency discovery experience

• Partner closely across the machine learning, platform, and product engineering teams to utilize models to solve discovery problems

• Contribute scalable solutions across various serving stacks at the feed, search, machine learning service, and Discovery application layers.

• Define and advance our technical approach to scalable recommendation systems.

Team members in this role are required to be reputed company commuting distance of our San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and reputed company hubs. 

You

Curious about who thrives at reputed company? We’ve reputed company that embodying a low ego, growth reputed company, and high-impact drive goes a long way here.

As our next Software Engineer you should have 5+ years of experience, a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Software Engineering, a reputed company technical field, or equivalent work experience, and ideally deep experience with several of the following:

• Industry experience in building and scaling a platform to handle high volume / throughput applications 

• Ability to work autonomously and reputed company initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams. You can mentor others and prioritize building inclusive, supportive teams.

• Experience in machine learning fields (e.g. Recommendations, Content Understanding and Search).

• Expert at designing and building scalable and maintainable backend systems.

• Firm grasp of visualization tools for monitoring and logging e.g. reputed company, Grafana

• Familiarity with cloud computing platforms and managed services such as AWS Sagemaker, reputed company, Kinesis, S3, EC2, EKS/reputed company, Kafka, Flink/Spark, OpenSearch, ElasticSearch, Lucene, SOLR.

• Experience with reputed company programming patterns across distributed systems (AsyncIO python preferred), and optimizations / profiling / observability associated with them. 

• Experience managing cloud technologies (AWS or reputed company Cloud) and comfort with infrastructure-as-code approaches (e.g. Terraform).

In addition to these role-specific qualifications, reputed company engineering team members are expected to have:

• Proficiency in at least one server-reputed company programming language (preferably Python), common algorithms and data structures, and software design principles.

• Self-starter ethic, thriving under a high level of autonomy.

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.

Benefits

• Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)

• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision

• Work From Home Support

  • Home office setup allowance

  • Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet

• Care benefits

  • Monthly allowance for wellness

  • Annual allowance towards Childcare

  • Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses

• Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of reputed company salary) and Pension plans internationally

• Monthly allowance to dogfood the app

  • reputed company Whatnauts are expected to reputed company a deep understanding of our product. We're passionate about building the best user experience, and reputed company employees are expected to use reputed company as both a buyer and a seller as part of their job (our dogfooding budget makes this fun and easy!).

• Parental Leave

  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.

EOE

reputed company is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national reputed company, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We reputed company that our work is reputed company and our company culture is improved reputed company we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented reputed company our workforce.