About the role:

The OfferUp Business team owns the platforms that power every business vertical on our marketplace; Storefronts, Auto Dealers, Services, Rentals, and Jobs. Our customers aren't casually browsing; they're running businesses on top of what we build, so every feature we ship has a direct, measurable impact on their livelihood and on OfferUp's revenue. We operate the full stack end-to-end: including microservices that handle some of the highest RPS and TPS in the company, and integrations with partners like Stripe and Shopify. We move fast, instrument everything, and treat experimentation as a first-class part of the workflow. We've barely scratched the surface of what these verticals can become, and the roadmap is wide open for someone who wants to shape it.

At many organizations, your role begins and ends with the code. On our team, we’re different. You own a feature from concept to fruition. Your responsibilities will include everything from writing well architected and thoroughly tested code, to rolling out the feature by analyzing metrics. You also get to take ownership beyond your technical area by working with cross-functional team members.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Business team, you'll be both a hands-on builder and a technical leader. You'll set the technical direction for the team, ship high-impact features with strong operational rigor, raise the bar on engineering quality across the org, and find creative ways to unlock new business surfaces.

Here’s more of what you will get to do:

Define the multi-quarter technical roadmap for the Business team and align it with company priorities
Design and operate high-throughput microservices where reliability, latency, and observability are non-negotiable
Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to design and implement new features across all five business verticals
Communicate complex technical designs to both technical and non technical stakeholders
Collaborate with engineering teams across OfferUp to surface common pain points, develop solutions, and evangelize best practices
Drive experimentation strategy, design A/B tests, interpret results, and use data to decide what ships
Make pragmatic calls on what to refactor, replace, or leave alone, and bring the team along on the reasoning
Support, mentor, and grow other engineers on the team
Partner deeply with Product, Design, and Business stakeholders to drive features and assess timelines
Participate in a reasonable on-call rotation with the rest of the team
Help maintain code quality across our existing applications
Create solutions and frameworks that make the rest of the team better and faster
Champion the use of AI tooling across the team. From day-to-day coding assistants to agentic workflows for testing, code review, and operational tasks. Help define the guidelines and best practices that scale these tools across OfferUp engineering
Become an SME for the team's areas of ownership

You’ll thrive in this role if you have:

8+ years of professional software engineering experience
Experience building and operating data-driven applications at scale
Experience performing data analysis and translating results into business recommendations
Hands-on experience using AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar) in a production engineering workflow, with a point of view on where they accelerate work and where they don't
Experience using good judgment to balance engineering improvements with business needs
Experience developing both short- and long-term technical vision for a set of services or features
Experience guiding and mentoring other engineers
Strong Java skills (required) and fluency in any other modern language; deep grounding in OOP, microservices, and distributed-systems design
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 traffic volumes
Experience with AWS or other cloud infrastructure
A bias toward shipping, learning from production, and iterating quickly
BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience

Helpful, but not required:

Full-stack experience with React, TypeScript, and GraphQL
Experience with payment integrations (Stripe or similar) and third-party platform integrations (Shopify, marketplaces)
Experience with A/B testing platforms (Statsig, LaunchDarkly, Optimizely) and analytics warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake)

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

OfferUp offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. Individual salaries within our ranges are determined through a variety of factors, including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. All roles will receive equity in OfferUp as part of their compensation, the amount of equity varying depending on the individual’s level and experience.

Benefits (all US roles): In addition to our compensation package, this role is eligible to enroll in health insurance, healthcare savings and spending accounts, retirement savings benefits (401(k) plan with match), basic and voluntary life insurance, disability benefits, and paid time off for sick leave, family and/or medical leave, vacation, and 12 company holidays. In regard to vacation time, OfferUp has a flexible vacation policy, and, in general, full-time, exempt employees will be expected to take 3-5 weeks (15-30 days) of pre-planned vacation time per year. Vacation needs are flexible and will naturally vary from year to year based on individual circumstances and business needs. In regard to sick time, all full-time employees (exempt and non-exempt) will be granted 12 days (96 hours) of sick time per year (pro-rated if the start date is other than January 1). Your recruiter can share more details about specific benefits during the interview process.