Job Description

Company Description

As an Etsy employee, you can do the work you love, be yourself, and make an impact in the lives of millions. Our commitments to diversity and inclusion, team culture and the spaces where we work all reflect our mission to keep commerce human.

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 groundbreaking continuous deployment system to ship code early and often, and a blameless culture based on trust and a commitment to learning. You can learn more about our philosophies, tools, and some of the challenges weve been solving on our Engineering blog: http://codeascraft.com/

Job Description

About the Team
Our team is responsible for building search and discovery services for Etsy. Our aim is to help our buyers discover and explore Etsys unique inventory and help them find the perfect item that they are looking for . As an engineer on the team, you will play a major role in improving the shopping experience for millions of Etsy buyers.

Search Matching team specializes in information retrieval and focuses on improving the quality of search results through machine learning, natural language processing and personalization techniques.. Heres a taste of the problems were solving:

* How can we help someone find that perfect item, even when they dont know what theyre looking for?
* How do we rank millions of search results in a matter of milliseconds, so that were always surfacing the best of Etsy?
* How can we maximize the relevance of search results over an enormous range of queries and buyers?
* How can the search experience make Etsy come to life and feel as vibrant as the community of makers thats behind it?
* How can we understand buyers motives and interests to personalize their experience?
* How can we help buyers to explore the breadth of Etsy's inventory?

We are language-agnostic in our approach to interviewing.

This role is located in Brooklyn, NY and also open to remote.
Qualifications

About the role
In this role you will:

* Contribute at all levels of Etsys search stack, ranging from application back-end technologies (PHP, Java, Python, Scala, SQL) as well as machine learning stack (PySpark, Scalding, Airflow, Tensorflow).
* Work in a cross-functional product team with Product Managers, Data Scientists, and Data Analysts to develop next-generation information retrieval and search systems for Etsy.
* Deploy ML models to production, sometimes including application development for your feature.
* Empathy, communication, and technical skill are valued equally.

About you

* You have solid engineering and coding skills, data structure knowledge and ability to write high performance production quality code.
* Familiarity with machine learning and deep learning solutions across the entire machine learning stack, from data collection to evaluation
* Strong verbal and written communication skills.
* You are an analytical thinker and understand how to wield data to make informed decisions about your work.
* Experience with objective-oriented programming languages: Java, Scala, Python, etc.
* Experience with machine learning frameworks (like Tensorflow, Spark, Scalding, etc.)
* Experience with search technologies such as Lucene, Solr or Elasticsearch.
* Experience with Kubernetes and Cloud Platforms(GCP, AWS, Azure, etc) is a plus.

For candidates who will work in or from Colorado: The starting pay range for this role is between $175,000 and $184,000, depending on experience and location. Full-time employees are also eligible for Etsy's bonus program, equity program, and amazing benefits package. See our Careers Page for more details.

Additional Information

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 race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. While Etsy supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skillsets.