Remote Junior Software Development Engineer - Backend

Summary

Join our team as a Junior Software Development Engineer - Backend on the Advertising team, where you'll develop and deploy features on our mature back end architecture with high operational excellence. You'll own and execute the delivery of sub-features, participate in architecture discussions, and do regular code reviews. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features and/or iterations of existing features.

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional software development experience
• A high degree of motivation with a history of delivering quality code
• Demonstrated 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
• An insatiable desire and ability to learn
• Exceptional self-management skills during the execution of complex problems and tasks
• A desire for a fast-moving, continuous flow development environment
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken (fluency in English required)
• Experience with building highly scalable web services
• Comfort designing services on top of cloud infrastructure like AWS

Responsibilities

• Help create and deliver new advertising experiences for OfferUp
• 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 Ads 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Agile development
• Working knowledge of online advertising systems
• Github repo with your own code we can view