The OfferUp Explore team is responsible for all things Search and Browse. We own the key infrastructure that enables users to explore our marketplace and powers a user’s various search and personalized home feeds. Our team leverages available and emerging technologies to deliver outstanding search results and a meaningful search experience for millions of users on OfferUp’s world-class local peer-to-peer marketplace.

At many organizations, your role begins and ends with the code. On our team, we’re different. As a Software Development Engineer in our team, you will own and execute delivery of sub features, participate in architecture discussions and do regular code reviews. You’ll be responsible for working with our Product team, Bizops experts, client developers, and backend peers to come up with new efficient, scalable solutions and iterate on existing ones.

This role is only available outside the US and not available to any individual based within the US or any US territory.

About the role:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features and/or iterations of existing features.
• Contribute to developing the technical strategy for the Explore platform/features.
• Develop, test, release, and document code using best software engineering practices to ensure timely service delivery and ease of maintenance.
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation.
• Collaborate if needed with third-party providers, and evaluate/debug/implement 3rd party SDKs.
• Identify, track and find solutions to software defects identified both internally and externally.

Here’s more of what you will get to do:

• 2+ years of professional software development experience
• Are a highly motivated person with a history of delivering quality code.
• Demonstrate strong coding skills in any one of the following – Java, Python, C/C++, Golang, Scala, PHP (or equivalent programming language)
• Excellent knowledge of Data Structures and Algorithms
• Above all, an insatiable desire and ability to learn
• Exceptional self-management skills during the execution of complex problems and tasks
• You desire a fast-moving, continuous-flow development environment
• BS or MS in Computer Science or related discipline
• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken (fluency in English required)

You’ll thrive in this role if you have:

• Experienced with Agile development
• Experience with building highly scalable web services
• Be comfortable designing services on top of cloud infrastructure like AWS
• Working knowledge of eCommerce search systems
• Github repo with your own code we can view