Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Core Algorithms

Company: ThredUP Inc.
Location: Scottsdale
Posted on: September 12, 2020

Job Description:

Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Core Algorithms thredUP is the world’s largest fashion resale platform, inspiring a new generation to think secondhand first. The company has spent the past 10 years reinventing resale, building a marketplace and infrastructure now poised to power the $50B resale economy and usher in a more sustainable fashion future. Millions of consumers use thredUP as the easiest way to sell their clothes and shop over 35,000 brands at up to 90% off — online, in stores or via “try-before-you-buy” Goody Boxes. Backed by world-class investors, thredUP designed a resale engine that has redistributed nearly 100 million unique garments from closets across America and is now powering resale for the broader fashion industry via its Resale-As-A-Service (RAAS) platform.

About the Role

At thredUP, we’re revolutionizing the clothing industry. Our marketplace introduces some unique challenges to solve in order to deliver a delightful inventory set at great value for our customers - are you up for the challenge?

You will work on a broad set of domains, from building out and iterating on our pricing algorithms and surrounding services, to optimizing channels for surfacing the best product deals to the right customers, to building out a next generation promotional system focused on incremental growth and churn reduction. You will be working with a highly interdisciplinary team of software engineers, ML engineers, data scientists, analysts, and marketers. This role will require a mixture of software engineering, machine learning, customer insight, data science, and strong collaboration skills to be successful.

Responsibilities Architect, build, maintain, and improve our pricing and promotional algorithms and their underlying systems. We are in the process of building a new set of services and platforms

Implement end-to-end solutions for batch and real-time algorithms

Build tooling around monitoring, logging, automated testing and A/B testing

Collaborate with your peers and other teams to teach, learn and execute efficiently

Contribute to improving our processes and engineering culture

What we are looking for Exceptional track record in delivering production grade engineering and ML solutions at different levels of the stack

Strong experience with A/B testing and model evaluations

Strong experience in distributed systems design and best practices

Proficiency with languages like Java, Ruby, Python

Strong experience with continuous integration, test automation, and monitoring

Ability to work in a cross-functional team touching different parts of our core services

Experience with real-time data processing technologies

What We Offer - The opportunity to make a massive impact & influence outcomes for our business and customers alongside passionate coworkers

- Autonomy. The ability to make, own, and carry out decisions

- Competitive salary, equity and full benefits (health/dental/vision insurance & 401k)

- Work from anywhere most Tuesdays and Thursdays meeting free (what we call Maker Days)

- Flexible PTO

At thredUP, our mission has been built on extending the lives of millions of unique clothing items. Much like our inventory, we believe diversity is key. As a diverse and inclusive workplace, we are committed to ensuring our employees are comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work every day. A unique perspective is critical to solving complex problems and inspiring a new generation to think secondhand first. Everyone is welcome - be you.

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