Software Development Engineer; Hybrid @ Bellevue, WA or Remote @ Florida

Staff Software Development Engineer (Hybrid @ Bellevue, WA or Remote @ Florida)

Hybrid @ Bellevue, WA or Remote @ Florida

The Offer Up Consumer teamwork owns the key infrastructure that enables users to post items, search, and display items for potential buyers. The team manages homefeed, search, and the item catalog, operating some of the highest RPS and TPS services within Offer Up. You own a feature from concept to fruition, from writing well-architected and thoroughly tested code to rolling out the feature by analyzing metrics, and you collaborate with cross-functional teams beyond your technical area.

As a Staff Software Development Engineer, you will grow the team as both a technical lead and individual contributor. You will set the technical strategy for the team, develop/deploy multiple features with high operational excellence, continuously improve engineering/operational excellence, and discover innovative ways to meet business needs.

• Develop a technical strategy for our team
• Develop highly scalable real-time microservices without compromising on reliability, latency, and monitoring
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to design and implement new features
• Collaborate with Offer Up wide engineering teams to surface common pain points, develop solutions and evangelize best practices
• Identify when to replace and when to rebuild legacy systems
• Support, mentor, and help other engineers in the team
• Participate in a reasonable on-call rotation with the rest of the team
• Collaborate with stakeholders to drive features and assess timelines
• Help maintain code quality in existing applications
• Create solutions and/or frameworks that make other team members better and faster
• Become an SME for team ownership areas

• 8+ years professional software engineering experience
• Experience performing data analysis and translating results into business recommendations
• Experience in working with data-driven applications at scale
• Experience using good judgment to balance engineering improvements with business needs
• Experience developing a short and long term vision for a set of services/features
• Experience guiding and mentoring junior members
• Strong coding skills in Java (required), and any other modern programming language with strong knowledge in object-oriented design and microservices architecture
• Experience with AWS and other cloud infrastructures
• Hands-on experience designing and building microservices and scalable distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of data structures and object-oriented design
• Hands-on experience with load balancing and handling large data traffic
• An insatiable desire and ability to learn
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

• Experience with Open Search or Elasticsearch
• Hands-on experience with search systems

Compensation Range: $210,000 - $240,000

Benefits (all US roles):
Eligible to enroll in health insurance, healthcare savings and spending accounts, retirement savings benefits (401(k) with match), life insurance, disability benefits, and paid time off for sick leave, family/medical leave, vacation, and 12 company holidays. Vacation time is flexible; many full-time exempt employees take 3-5 weeks per year. Sick time is 12 days per year (pro-rated if start date is not January
1). Your recruiter can share more details about benefits during the interview process.

Offer Up is dedicated to creating the simplest and most trusted way for people to buy, sell, and connect in their local communities. We are a top local marketplace app for local buyers and sellers in the U.S., with iOS and Android availability. Founded in 2011 and based in Bellevue, WA, Offer Up serves local markets nationwide and was used by more than 1 in 6 adults in 2024.

Offer Up is backed by leading investors and provides equity as part of compensation.

Offer Up provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. We comply with applicable laws governing nondiscrimination in employment where the company operates. We prohibit workplace harassment based on protected characteristics. This description reflects our commitment to respectful and inclusive experiences.