Staff Software Engineer I, Inventory

About the position

We are looking for a Staff Engineer I to take the lead on directing and implementing solutions to significantly complex, unscoped problems. Your work will extend to many parts of the domain and may influence your entire department or domain. You will set the technical direction for your teammates, improve the overall quality of engineering done on your team, and consistently take steps to support the growth and success of your teammates. This is a full-time position reporting to the Director of Inventory & Fulfillment Systems. 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.

Responsibilities

• Providing daily support for peers across Etsy (ex. writing documentation, reviewing pull requests, answering Slack questions, auditing new features, hosting office hours and classes)
• Contributing at all levels of Etsy's inventory/catalog stacks, ranging from application back-end technologies (PHP) as well as front-end stack (Preact, Redux Toolkit, Formik, Vest)
• Developing and maintaining critical path product services
• Provide detailed and constructive design and code reviews
• Gaining insights through research, data analysis, and our A/B tests
• Pushing code to production early and often using our continuous deployment systems
• Building and maintaining observability and test tooling - logging, monitoring, distributed tracing, alerting and offline test tools needed for search and recommendation systems
• Practicing continuous learning and agile delivery models to stay informed and focused on our deliverables

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience
• Experience working on the Inventory ecosystem
• Full stack Web developer, stronger in backend development
• Experience in information retrieval systems and the ability to write high performance production quality code
• Capacity to operate within a large codebase and craft simplicity from complex systems
• Proficiency in PHP and MySQL is a plus
• Familiarity with React and overall frontend development
• Experience updating complex data models in performant ways
• Significant experience working with relational databases
• Flexibility with different programming languages and cloud-native environments
• Strong collaborator and communicator
• Experience leading, mentoring, and coaching other engineers
• Successful track record of planning and leading complex projects to completion
• Growth mindset with excitement towards receiving feedback and learning opportunities
• Strong sense of ownership towards your work
• Desire to understand the 'why' behind what we are doing

Benefits

• Equity package
• Annual performance bonus
• Competitive benefits that support you and your family