[Hiring] Software Development Engineer II @OfferUp

Role Description

The OfferUp Connect team builds the moments that turn a listing into a sale. Every chat between buyers and sellers, every offer notification, and every saved-search alert runs through services we own, from messaging and notifications to location, meetups, and the subscriptions sellers pay for. We run high-volume Java microservices and streaming pipelines, integrate with partners like Braze, Amazon Pinpoint, Apple, and Google, and use experimentation to decide what ships.

As a Software Development Engineer II, you'll own features from concept to rollout:

• Design, build, and deploy backend services and event-driven pipelines for messaging, notifications, location, and subscriptions.
• Improve the reliability, latency, and delivery rates of high-volume messaging and notification systems, including retries, rate limiting, and frequency capping.
• Integrate with and operate third-party platforms such as Braze, Amazon Pinpoint, Apple and Google push services, and app store billing.
• Own features end-to-end: plan, design, develop, deploy, measure, and iterate.
• Break down complex engineering problems into achievable tasks and deliver them within committed timeframes.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, Data Science, Marketing, and iOS, Android, and web engineers) to design and implement new features.
• Contribute to A/B tests and use experimentation results to decide what ships.
• Actively participate in code reviews and enforce good patterns, testing, and edge-case handling.
• Coach and mentor junior team members, new hires, and interns.
• Create shared components, utilities, and services that improve team velocity across the stack.
• Maintain and improve the runbooks, alerting, and monitoring for the features you ship.
• Participate in a reasonable on-call rotation with the rest of the team.
• Use AI coding tools (Claude Code, Gemini, and similar) to increase your daily development velocity and code quality.
• Become a subject matter expert in one or more of the team's sub-domains: messaging, notifications and campaigns, location, or subscriptions and promotions.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Demonstrated ability to own the delivery of multiple features end-to-end (plan, design, develop, and deploy) with high efficiency.
• Strong coding skills in Java, with a working understanding of microservices and distributed-systems fundamentals.
• Good knowledge of data structures and object-oriented design.
• Working knowledge of asynchronous, event-driven systems (queues, pub/sub, or streams), including retries and idempotent processing.
• Hands-on experience using AI coding tools (Claude Code or similar) in a real engineering workflow.
• A habit of following good coding patterns, writing appropriate tests, considering trade-offs, and seeking out edge cases.
• Comfortable giving and receiving feedback in code reviews.
• A bias toward shipping, learning from production, and iterating quickly.
• An insatiable desire and ability to learn.
• BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.

Requirements

• Fluency in another modern object-oriented programming language (helpful but not required).
• Experience with TypeScript and Node.js (helpful but not required).
• Experience with Agile development (helpful but not required).
• Experience building and integrating with REST APIs (helpful but not required).
• Experience with AWS services such as DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, Lambda, and ElastiCache (Redis) (helpful but not required).
• Experience with notification and engagement platforms (Braze, Amazon Pinpoint, APNs, FCM) or in-app subscription billing (App Store, Google Play) (helpful but not required).
• Experience with stream processing frameworks such as Apache Flink or Kafka Streams (helpful but not required).
• Experience with A/B testing platforms (Statsig, LaunchDarkly, Optimizely) and analytics warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake) (helpful but not required).
• Experience consuming or integrating LLM-based APIs (e.g., Bedrock, Vertex AI, OpenAI) (helpful but not required).
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD pipelines (helpful but not required).

Company Description

OfferUp is dedicated to creating the simplest and most trusted way for people to buy, sell, and connect in their local communities. One of the top local marketplace apps for local buyers and sellers in the U.S., OfferUp makes it easy for people to discover more of what they need—from great deals and secondhand goods to jobs, services, home rentals, and more—right in their own communities.

• Available on iOS and Android, OfferUp has consistently ranked among the top shopping apps.
• Founded in 2011 and based in Bellevue, WA, OfferUp serves local markets nationwide.
• OfferUp is backed by leading investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Warburg Pincus, GGV Capital, T. Rowe Price, and Coatue Management.