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
What's the role?
Etsy is looking for a Senior Software Engineer I, Paid Advertising to join the paid advertising team at Reverb, the largest online marketplace dedicated to buying and selling musical instruments and a brand of Etsy, Inc.
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This team focuses on driving organic search and paid traffic to the Reverb marketplace. This team is responsible for ensuring that users searching for products outside of Reverb are able to find our inventory on third party markets and improving the overall ranking and efficiency of our paid advertising program. We work closely with our marketing analytics team and our data engineering teams. Current and future work for this team includes:
- Maintaining and improving our marketing feeds, so people can find the gear they are looking for
- Building out workflows to centralize reporting of sales, so that we can consistently measure performance of our paid ads
- Updating our privacy practice, to stay ahead of changes in both market user preferences around data sharing
- Integrating our product catalog with new advertising partners
This is a full-time position reporting to the Engineering Manager, Seller Growth. 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. For this role, we are considering candidates based in Mexico who are either remote, flex, or office-based. Etsy offers different work modes to meet the variety of needs and preferences of our team. Learn more about our flexible work options and workplace safety policies here.
While this role will initially support Reverb, this role may support Etsy.com in the future.
What's this team like at Reverb?
We build primarily in Ruby/Rails, but we value identifying the right language/framework for the job. We believe in fast feedback cycles, pragmatic code, continuous deployment, and validating our ideas in production as soon as we can.
Our teams are highly collaborative and empowered to make a better experience for our customers. We rely on our ability to work as a team and incorporate different perspectives in order to ship meaningful and impactful software to our users.
What does the day-to-day look like?
- Maintaining and improving our marketing feeds, so people can find the gear they are looking for
- Building out workflows to centralize reporting of sales, so that we can consistently measure performance of our paid ads
- Updating our privacy practice, to stay ahead of changes in both market user preferences around data sharing
- Integrating our product catalog with new advertising partners
- 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:
- 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.
- 5+ years of professional experience with web technologies. (We mainly use Ruby/Rails, but occasionally also work with React/GraphQL in Typescript and Python)
- Experience with ElasticSearch, Docker, dbt, and Airflow - huge pluses
- 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
- Comfortable with CI/CD strategies and deployment
- Experience with unit testing (whether TDD, BDD, or spike it first and test it later) and a desire to push everyone to do better.
- Experience with or willingness to learn Pair Programming. (It's not 100% of the time, but we like to pair, especially when starting anything significantly new.)
- 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
What's Next
If you're interested in joining the team at Etsy, please share your resume with us and feel free to include a cover letter if you'd like. As we hope you've seen already, Etsy is a place that values individuality and variety. We don't want you to be like everyone else -- we want you to be like you! So tell us what you're all about.
Our Promise
At Etsy, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace furthers relevance, resilience, and longevity. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and experiences to apply. Etsy is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during any part of the interview process, please let your recruiter know. While Etsy supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skills.