Senior Software Engineer II, Risk Experience

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 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.

What's the Role?

Etsy is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to join our Risk Experience team. You will be joining a team of software engineers, building features and systems to enable our international sellers to reach millions of buyers globally.

This role will be focused on improving the Buyer and Seller experience for the Etsy community from a Trust & Safety perspective, whilst ensuring the experience for bad actors is as difficult as possible. All the members of this squad will be experienced engineers at Etsy that will support you in your onboarding. 

The technology we build spans the full stack end to end; from user experience, to API design, backend service development, vendor integrations, and database design. Depending on the needs of the business our team may need to move up and down the stack, and in many cases collaborate with other teams to get to what needs to be done.

This is a full-time position reporting to our Engineering Manager, Threat Mitigation and Risk Experience. 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 our Dublin office once or twice per week depending on your proximity to the office. Candidates living within commutable distance of our Dublin office, may be the first to be considered. Learn more details about our work modes and workplace safety policies here.

What’s this team like at Etsy?

Risk Experience’s mission is to mitigate risk by closing various experience gaps prone to exploitation within the buyer and seller journey. This team is focused on adding friction to the buyer and user seller journey through user experience changes. Most members of the team are based in Dublin with some based in New York.

Here are a few questions our team helps answer:

• How do we increase the difficulty for bad actors to take over user accounts without making it painful for genuine users and impacting their user journey?

• How do we protect existing users from having their accounts taken over and used for illicit means?

What does the day-to-day look like?

• Contribute at all levels; from front-end (HTML, CSS, JS, and relevant frameworks), to API design and back-end (PHP, MySQL, BigQuery), and standalone supporting services running in containers.

• Document technical design decisions.

• Participate in code and design reviews and maintain high standards of code quality to adhere to modern best practices.

• Work with supporting functions, such as analytics, product management, and design, to make sure we are building the right product for the right set of customers.

• Mentor and guide junior team members through knowledge sharing and collaborative best practices.

• Continuously learn from your teammates and share your own insights with them.

• Push code to production early and often using our continuous deployment systems.

• Empathy, ownership, communication, and technical skill are valued equally.

• 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.

Qualities that will help me thrive in this role are:

• You are driven by the mission of safeguarding global online marketplaces, you are passionate about understandin