Software Engineer, Marketplace

Responsibilities

• Build backend services that power candidate-job matching, routing, and marketplace workflows.
• Develop APIs and internal systems for search, eligibility, scoring, allocation, and fulfillment.
• Design data models and system abstractions for a rapidly evolving labor marketplace.
• Create infrastructure for real-time and asynchronous decisioning at high volume.
• Build operational systems and tooling that keep product-critical workflows reliable, observable, and easy to evolve.

Example Problems

• Build the systems that determine which candidates are eligible for which opportunities.
• Design matching and allocation infrastructure that balance speed, quality, and fill rate.
• Improve the performance and reliability of APIs serving marketplace decisions in real time.
• Develop workflow engines for onboarding, vetting, routing, and placement.
• Design backend abstractions that let product and ML teams iterate quickly without degrading system quality.

Requirements

• Track record of building and operating reliable backend systems in production.
• Strong judgment in system design, performance, reliability, and data modeling.
• Comfort working on high-throughput APIs, distributed systems, and asynchronous workflows.
• Ability to translate product and marketplace requirements into clean technical systems.
• High engineering standards and a bias toward simple, durable abstractions.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with search, recommendation, matching, scheduling, or marketplace systems.
• Experience supporting ML-powered products or integrating model inference into production systems.
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture, queues, caching, and observability tooling.

Tech Stack

• Python
• Go
• Kafka
• Postgres
• Redis
• Elasticsearch
• Kubernetes
• Terraform

Benefits

• Bi-annual performance bonus structure.
• Generous equity grant vested over 4 years.
• Up to $15k relocation bonus.
• $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office).
• $1.5K monthly stipend for meals.
• Free Equinox membership.
• $200 monthly laundry reimbursement.
• $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement.
• Health, Dental, Vision insurance.