Senior Software Engineer, Search Relevance

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, Depop, or Elo7 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

About the Role

This is a full-time position in the newly-formed Search team, with the directive to take Reverb’s search to the next level and beyond. This role is right for you if you want to be a technical leader of a foundational team and enjoy applying technical skills to solve customer challenges. You must have an understanding of how sophisticated, high scale search systems work; bonus points for having previously worked on maturing a search codebase beyond vanilla search engine capabilities. Future work for this team may include:

• Tracking success metrics and setting baselines for search relevancy
• Working with data science, engineering, and analytics engineering to improve search ranking and efficacy.
• Building second-pass ranking systems to augment initial elastic search relevance
• Using taxonomy to inform raking and recall
• Overall improvements to the speed and stability of the search architecture

Here are the qualities we look for in our potential hires:

Product ownership - We are not just software engineers. At Reverb, you’ll be encouraged to follow the performance of features and systems you release, talk to product, research and design. Fix bugs and understand your impact on the business.

Self-motivation - Taking the initiative to get things done by finding ways around potential roadblocks and proactively working with other team members to find right-sized solutions. You own your work.

Learning and Teaching - You are someone who likes to participate in code reviews and mentor other engineers directly. You also enjoy new challenges and learning new things to help you do your work more effectively.

This role is open to remote candidates within multiple states, as well as candidates local to Chicago, IL. For candidates who will work remotely visit this link for a list of approved locations.

 

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience, with an emphasis on back-end systems
• Direct experience shipping features within search or similar domains.
• Practical understanding of data science and ML concepts.
• Deep knowledge of your chosen languages and frameworks, but curiosity and ability to ramp up on new technologies quickly when called for.
• Ability to lead and break down complex problems into bite sized solutions.
• Great communication skills and the desire to collaborate across departments and with internal customers. Able to ask clarifying questions and provide tech context when needed

Additional Information

Remote-eligible roles are available in all U.S. states except Alaska and Hawaii. Remote roles are currently only available within the U.S. unless otherwise specified in the specific job description.

Reverb offers compensation packages that include base, bonus, and equity in the form of Etsy restricted stock units. Some of our key benefits include but are not limited to the following:

• 100% paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision coverage for the employee, spouse or domestic partner, and all eligible dependents. Medical coverage includes gender affirming care.
• Life, AD&D, and supplemental long-and short-term disability insurance
• A matching 401(k)
• A generous PTO policy that includes vacation, sick/mental health days plus 11 paid holidays and two floating holidays
• Professional development and continued learning opportunities through access to mentoring, 1:1 coaching, and platforms like Skillsoft, LinkedIn Learning and Codecademy 
• 18 weeks of gender-neutral parental leave for the birth or adoption of a child
• Up to $25,000 reimbursement of adoption and/or surrogacy related expenses
• Paid sabbatical program
• $1,000 annual work/life stipend
• Access to free supplemental online mental health services and meditation apps 
• Ways to give back to your community through a charitable contribution match and volunteer time off

At Reverb, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace makes us a more relevant and resilient company. We welcome people from all backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, an