Etsy is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Seller Services team to build features and systems that enable Etsy to deliver efficient, high-quality, and scalable support to its millions of buyers and sellers globally. The role involves driving technical direction and strategy, ensuring high quality through engineering standards, and mentoring other engineers.
Requirements
- Contribute at all levels; from front-end (HTML, CSS, JS, and Typescript/React), to API design and back-end (PHP, MySQL, BigQuery), and standalone supporting services running in containers.
- Collaborate closely with engineering managers, engineers, product managers, data scientists, and machine learning engineers to design robust end-to-end solutions and incorporate industry trends that can drive business value
- Set technical direction for your teammates, as a tech lead.
- Participate in code and design reviews and maintain high standards of code quality
- Mentor and guide junior and senior engineers.
- Advocate for high standards; make quality-of-life improvements to the codebase; and help limit the growth of technical debt
- Work cross-functionally with various teams for technical alignment and dependency management.
Responsibilities
- Contribute at all levels; from front-end (HTML, CSS, JS, and Typescript/React), to API design and back-end (PHP, MySQL, BigQuery), and standalone supporting services running in containers.
- Collaborate closely with engineering managers, engineers, product managers, data scientists, and machine learning engineers to design robust end-to-end solutions and incorporate industry trends that can drive business value
- Set technical direction for your teammates, as a tech lead.
- Participate in code and design reviews and maintain high standards of code quality
- Mentor and guide junior and senior engineers.
- Advocate for high standards; make quality-of-life improvements to the codebase; and help limit the growth of technical debt
- Work cross-functionally with various teams for technical alignment and dependency management.
Other
- Hybrid
- Full-time
- Proven industry experience as a technology thought partner
- Ability to balance hands-on engineering with strategic planning
- Strong communication skills for influencing across teams and leadership levels
