letgo's the largest and fastest growing app
to buy and sell locally. With over 100M downloads and hundreds of
millions of listings to date, letgo’s been named among the “Hottest
Startups” by Wired and “Best Apps” by Google, and it’s the second
fastest growing app in America since its 2015 launch. Business Insider
calls letgo “the go-to app for selling your stuff” and it’s been
featured by The New York Times, The Today Show, USA Today, The Verge, Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune and hundreds of others worldwide. Already
among the most popular apps in America, letgo’s marketplace is filled
with everything from electronics and cars to clothing and furniture.
Listing something on letgo is as simple as taking a photo thanks to its
advanced technology. It’s the only app of its kind that can
automatically title and categorize an item using artificial
intelligence. Plus, users can easily browse local listings, chat
instantly in the app, and view each other’s profiles, ratings and
reviews.
Based in our New York and Barcelona
offices, our team of over 165 represents more than 20 nationalities.
Fueled by our diverse expertise, letgo’s goal is to build the largest
marketplace of its kind in the world. We’re looking for people who are
as passionate as we are about creating something our users love and -
just as importantly - who are excited by the challenge.
The Senior Big Data Engineer
is a Senior Developer passionate about Big Data whose mission is to
create the best strategy to treat data and super our Data Science team
with the best insights.
We’re looking for someone who wants to build something huge and that people love because it makes their lives simpler:We’ve
built a company for people who want to do impactful work, surrounded by
great people. We have a well-defined, mature culture — and we’re always
making it better.
Your challenge:
- Collect and process data from hundreds of sources daily (half a billion events of hundreds of types being produced daily)
- Collaborate with Data Scientists to develop experiments and deploy solutions to production
- Curate massive amounts of data and make it accessible
- Design highly scalable, concurrent and robust data architectures
- Ensure product and technical features are delivered to spec and on-time
- Design and
implement features in collaboration with product owners, reporting
analysts/data analysts, and business partners within an Agile / Scrum
methodology
To get there, you'll definitely need:
- Streaming processing tools like Kafka / Kinesis, Storm, Flink, Spark Streaming, etc
- Storage of data with any of these: Cassandra, HBase, Elastic Search, Solr, Redshift, any NoSQL or graph databases
- Querying tools: Hive, Presto, Drill, Impala, SparkSQL, etc.
- Batch processing with Hadoop or Spark
Desirable skills:
- Concurrent and distributed programming: reactive extensions, AKKA, etc
- Graph processing: Spark GraphX, Apache Giraph
- Lambda architecture, kappa architecture
Ideal skills:
- YARN, Kubernetes, Docker
- Cloudera, MapR knowledge
- Machine Learning knowledge
- Sci-py, R, Scala
- Notebook (Jupiter, Zeppelin, Databricks)
- SparkML, Deeplearning4j, H2O, Tensorflow, etc
letgo perks:
- 100% covered medical, vision, and dental care
- Competitive salary and stock options
- Beautiful, new office in the heart of Soho and along the beach in Barcelona
- Potential opportunities to travel to - and work in - both of our offices
- Robust relocation package
- Massage therapy (Barcelona office)
- Fully stocked kitchens
- Team-building activities
- Language and other courses
letgo is proud to be an Equal
Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Ensuring a diverse and
inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to letgo's
values. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color,
national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related
medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender
expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a
protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other
applicable legally protected characteristics.