Wish is a mobile e-commerce platform that flips traditional shopping on its head. We connect hundreds of millions of people with the widest selection of delightful, surprising, and—most importantly—affordable products delivered directly to their doors. Each day on Wish, millions of customers in more than 100 countries around the world discover new products. For our over 1 million merchant partners, anyone with a good idea and a mobile phone can instantly tap into a global market.

We're fueled by creating unique products and experiences that give people access to a new type of commerce, where all are welcome. If you’ve been searching for a supportive environment to chase your curiosity and use data to investigate the questions that matter most to you, this is the place.

We are looking for strong senior back-end software engineers to maintain and own our product detail service (PDS).  PDS is one of the largest and most complex backend systems we own.  On top of maininting, iterating, and improving PDS, we are looking to rewrite it and move it to a microservice as well.  PDS is used anywhere you see any info regarding a product, so any performance and latency improvement in the system equals big wins and impact. 

The app experience team also owns the entire user journey from the time they are signed in, to the time they add an item to cart.  This includes homepage, core navigation, fashion category (other categories to be added), product detail page, search page, shoppable videos, merchandising, sales and incentives as well as other exciting areas throughout the user journey.  

You will enjoy working with one of the richest social e-commerce data sets in the world, cutting edge technology, and the ability to see your insights turned into real products on a regular basis. Our engineers move fast, while solving unusual and challenging problems. Our team is small and nimble. We release new code daily to ensure that engineers are able to iterate quickly, and make an impact immediately. We cultivate an environment for smart, driven engineers to thrive. 

What you'll be doing:

• Own our product detail service (PDS) which is one of the largest and most complex backend systems we own. Re-writing, improving, adding new features and moving PDS to a microservice are amongst some of the key responsibilities.
• Have a critical role in building and maintaining other key pieces of our app experience backend system serving millions of users with billions of products per day
• Work with mobile/web engineers, product manager, data analyst, designers and QA teams to move projects from inception to completion
• Manage all technical aspects of relationships with different stakeholders and take ownership of the implementations as well as follow up maintenance
• Optimize and iterate on the architecture and performance of the Wish backend system, lead the effort of migrating the existing stacks into microservices
• Build reporting and monitoring tools to ensure the stability of the deployment and the associated systems
• Establish and disseminate best practices within and across teams

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• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of programming experience in the industry
• Proficient with Python, Go, or other scripting languages
• Experience in microservices, exposure to SOA in an industry leading company
• Proficient with NoSQL databases like MongoDB, as well as relational databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL.
• Experience in building APIs as well as single handedly designing large scale systems to support these APIs 
• Excellent written and interpersonal communication skill as well as documentation skills
• Self motivated, relentlessly focused on impact and able to operate under a great deal of independence, able to build features quickly and iterating in a data driven fashion
• Deep passion for improving the design, implementation and maintenance of large scale software systems with millions of users

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working on large scale consumer facing applications
• Experience in interviewing and mentioning junior and senior engineers

Here at Wish, you are joining a team and company at a time of growth and transformation. You will love being surrounded by people who are as passionate as you are about e-commerce, technology, and a data-driven culture. Even if you don't meet 100% of the above, we encourage you to still apply!

The base salary range for this position is $168,000 - $240,000 annually. Please note that individual total compensation for this position will be determined at the Company's sole discretion and may vary based on several factors, including but not limited to, location, skill level, years and depth of relevant experience, qualifications and other business considerations.

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