Senior API Engineer II, App Updates

Company Description

Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. We build, power, and evolve the tools and technologies that connect millions of entrepreneurs with millions of buyers around the world. As an Etsy Inc. employee, whether a team member of Etsy, Reverb, or Depop, you will tackle unique, meaningful, and large-scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, all the while making a rewarding impact and Keeping Commerce Human.

Job Description

What’s the role?

Etsy is seeking a Senior API Engineer II to join the App Updates team. Our marketplace has an abundance of one-of-a-kind items from independent artists, designers, and vintage collectors from around the world. Our challenge? Make it easier for buyers to find these remarkable goods and for creative entrepreneurs to run their businesses. Do you have the skills, passion, and empathy to take on this task? Are you excited about building products that thrill our buyers and empower millions of small businesses?

This is a full-time position reporting to the Engineering Manager, App Updates and the base salary range will be $171,000 - $191,000 USD per year. In addition to salary, you will also be eligible for an equity package, an annual performance bonus, and our competitive benefits that support you and your family as part of your total rewards package at Etsy. 

This role requires your presence in Etsy’s Brooklyn office in an in-person or flex capacity. Candidates living within commutable distance of the Brooklyn Hub, may be the first to be considered.

Etsy offers different work modes to meet the variety of needs and preferences of our team. Learn more about our Flex and Office-based work modes and workplace safety policies here.

What’s this team like at Etsy?

The technical staff at Etsy believes that code is craft, and that the work we do is part of a larger creative culture represented by the hundreds of thousands of inspired artists and designers who make Etsy such a unique marketplace. We believe that small, empowered, self-motivated teams can do big things. We believe in measuring everything, taking advantage of our pioneering continuous deployment system to ship code early and often, and a blameless culture based on trust and a commitment to learning. We primarily write in PHP and sometimes in Scala and Java. Our product engineering teams have recently shipped projects like a unified and redesigned set of seller tools, a better recommendation and personalization experience for buyers, and a system to allow buyers and sellers to communicate more effectively about variations on their orders. Learn more about our engineering philosophies, tools, and some of the challenges we’ve been solving on our Engineering blog, codeascraft.com/

What does the day-to-day look like?

• Strategic technical planning and project scoping 
• Collaborating closely with Product partners, Designers, and other engineering teams
• Actively participating in Etsy's strong engineering culture 
• Building products that help improve the buyer experience 
• Being part of a talented, caring, empathetic, distributed engineering team 
• 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.

Qualifications

Qualities that will help you thrive in this role are:

• Can define and solve unconstrained problems, and know when to seek help when no progress is being made.
• Love to, and are able to, learn new systems and technologies.
• Are comfortable collaborating closely with product managers and designers, providing estimates or product ideas that will influence your team’s roadmap.
• Are interested in monitoring the health and performance of the applications your team owns.
• Are a believer in automated testing as a way to create great, stable products
• Understand the ins and outs of creating an API to be consumed by multiple platforms
• Have a “leave it better than you found it” mentality, and are willing to work with and improve on code you did not originally write.
• Love to experiment and use data to drive decision-making.
• Are generous with your time and experience, and can mentor other engineer