Software Engineer - Structured Data

Company Description

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.

Job Description

We are the Structured Data team. Our team mission is to enrich and optimize product data for business operations, buyers, and sellers. As a member of the team, you will play a key role in building the structured product data in Wish. To produce accurate and descriptive product data, you will solve technical problems in distributed systems, scalability, availability, scale computing, data mining, machine learning, and optimization. There is a lot of new software development with evolving business problems not seen in other e-commerce companies.

What you'll be doing:

We are looking for a highly motivated collaborative engineer to work hard and have fun solving both technical and business problems with the team.

• Become familiar with the technical stack: gRPC, Golang, GraphQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Elasticsearch, and Kafka

• Write technical design documents, go through committee design reviews, devise implementation plans, and execute

• Work with other orgs/teams to define API contracts and responsibilities

• Do the necessary to make our products better whenever you see an opportunity

• Communicate and suggest new ideas and designs in both written and verbal formats.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of experience in contributing to the architecture and design of new and existing systems

• Experience working with both relational and documented oriented datastores such as Postgresql, MySql, MariaDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, HBase, etc

• Solid foundation in computer science, math and/or software engineering

• Strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and software design

• Self-motivated, hands-on, relentlessly focused on impact, and able to operate under a great deal of independence

• Great written and verbal communication skills

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!

Additional Information

Wish values diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive work environment. We provide equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. We do not discriminate based on any legally-protected class or characteristic. Employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know. For job positions in San Francisco, CA, and other locations where required, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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