Overview

The US Remote Full-Stack Software Engineer collaborates with a team to build engaging and effective user experiences for the Etsy community.

Etsy is seeking a Remote Full-Stack Software Engineer to join our Software Engineering team. Our marketplace has an abundance of one-of-a-kind items from independent artists, designers and vintage collectors from around the world. Our challenge? Make it easier for buyers to find these remarkable goods and for creative entrepreneurs to run their businesses. Do you have the skills, passion and empathy to take on this task? Are you excited about building products that thrill our buyers and empower millions of small businesses? Are you someone who will do what it takes to push a project forward to success?

About the Team

The technical staff at Etsy believes that code is craft, and that the work we do is part of a larger creative culture represented by the hundreds of thousands of inspired artists and designers who make Etsy such a unique marketplace. We believe that small, empowered, self-motivated teams can do big things. We believe in measuring everything, taking advantage of our pioneering continuous deployment system to ship code early and often, and a blameless culture based on trust and a commitment to learning. We primarily write in PHP and JavaScript as well as in Go and Java. Our product engineering teams have recently shipped projects like a unified and redesigned set of seller tools, a better recommendation and personalization experience for buyers, and a system to allow buyers and sellers to communicate more effectively about variations on their orders. Learn more about our engineering philosophies, tools, and some of the challenges we’ve been solving on our Engineering blog: http://codeascraft.com/

About the Location

Our engineers are concentrated in our Brooklyn HQ and San Francisco offices, but are located all over the US. We believe that open communication and effective teamwork can happen regardless of where you sit, and we’ll provide you with tools to make sure that happens. Your laptop will come with our video conferencing software pre-installed, so you can always join in on meetings and catch up face-to-face with your team regardless of where in the world you or they are.

About the Role

  • You’ll be helping us build delightful products and experiences for people buying and selling with Etsy. In the Remote Full-Stack Engineering role you will be contributing at all levels of our web application stack, ranging from back-end technologies (PHP, MySQL, Memcache) to front-end web interfaces (HTML, CSS, JavaScript). The teams working on each feature are small, so there’s a lot of meaningful collaboration between engineers, product managers, and designers.
  • We believe strongly in using both quantitative and qualitative methods to guide decisions. To that end, you’ll be able to use our in-house analytics tools to gather information and gain insights. With a strong focus on creative entrepreneurs, you will work closely alongside our research team, go on studio visits, and discover insights in our forums.
  • You’ll also be able to use Etsy’s Continuous Deployment architecture to push code to production early and often (and you’ll probably push in your first week here).You’ll be using various technologies to effectively communicate and collaborate with your team, including, Slack, Google’s G Suite, and Vidyo Video Conferencing. Most of our meeting rooms are equipped with state of the art video conferencing software so all members of a team can participate.
  • You’ll be able to travel to Brooklyn once a quarter to work in person with your team and bond face to face.

About You

  • Can define and solve unconstrained problems, and know when to seek help when no progress is being made.
  • Have excellent written communication skills.
  • Are proactive; You do the things that need to be done to move a project forward.
  • Have a commitment to do what you say and when you say you will do it.
  • Have either 6 years experience as a software engineer OR 2 years experience as a remote software engineer
  • Are comfortable collaborating closely with product managers and designers, providing estimates or product ideas that will influence your team’s roadmap.
  • Have a “leave it better than you found it” mentality, and are willing to work with and improve on code you did not originally write.
  • Love to experiment and use data to drive decision-making.
  • Are generous with your time and experience, and can mentor other engineers.
  • Will be a mindful, transparent, and communicative member of your team.

What’s Next

Interested in working with us? Send us a cover letter and your resume explaining why you’d be great for the job. We value your unique talents and point of view, so feel free to tell us what you are all about. If you have an online presence (blog, Twitter, Facebook), send it along. And if you write, draw, craft, or contribute to something you’re proud of, we’d love to hear about it.

At Etsy, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace makes us a more relevant, more competitive, and more resilient company. We welcome people from all backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences. Etsy is an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of color, ancestry, religion, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, actual or presumed belonging to an ethnic group, or any other legally protected status.