Tophatter
Tophatter is a mobile e-commerce marketplace. We've taken the most exciting part of eBay - the last minute of every auction - and built a product experience around that. All items on Tophatter are put on auction and on average, auctions lasts only 90 seconds. This creates a fun, addictive online shopping experience.
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Full Stack Engineer San Francisco, CA, United States or Remote
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Senior Full-Stack Engineer San Francisco, CA, United States or Seattle, WA, United States
Why join us?
The Team — We have a strong, experienced team that knows how to get us to the next big company milestone.
High Impact - We always have more good ideas than engineers to implement them. You will be working on important, high impact projects for sure.
Engineering at Tophatter
Each quarter, we break into teams of 3-4 engineers and a product manager. Each team is given an area of focus (e.g. onboarding, buyer experience, retention, personalization, supply, internationalization, and security). The team works together to define goals for the quarter and a prioritized list of projects that they hope will achieve those goals. We do a lot of A/B testing to see what works and what doesn't.
(1) Dealing with the large scale of real-time auctions
(2) Creating an engine that automatically determines the best products to run on the site at any given time
(3) Personalizing the site / emails / push notifications for each user
(4) Handling our large quantity of analytics data
Acquisition
How can we spend the next $100 million in marketing better than the last? We’re building the infrastructure to automate and optimize our marketing efforts so that we can scale our spend while decreasing the CPA (cost per action).
Buying Formats
We’re experimenting with news ways to sell products on Tophatter. Are there different ways to help users discover different types products that they are looking to find?
Return Buyer Experience
How do we know what our shoppers want before they do? Tophatter is a discovery shopping platform and we’re actively working on delivering a personalized experience to delight every shopper. Projects range from improving product recommendations to user-facing features.
Supply Optimization
We solve a complex supply and demand equation when dealing with a two-sided marketplace with auctions — we can’t oversaturate our supply compared to our demand because then items will sell at too low of a price, leaving sellers unhappy.
Risky Business
We’re focused on eliminating or reducing sources of business risk to Tophatter. Improving how we fight fraud, staying ahead of security issues, making sure our application and infrastructure is resilient to failure and disaster recovery are some of the things we work on.
Working at Tophatter
The founders have created a culture where the ideas we implement often come from individual contributors. People look forward coming to work each day because their work is high-impact and important, and also because we look forward to working together.
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Generous Vacation
We have an unlimited, open vacation policy. Take the time you need.
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Free Food
Delicious daily lunches and free snacks in the office.
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Gym/Fitness
Subsidized gym membership for Equinox sportsclubs and annual in-office biometric screenings & flu shots.
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Beautiful Office
We're located in San Francisco right by the ballpark with a view of the bay.
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Maternal/Paternal Leave
We provide 12 weeks of fully paid leave if you're the person having the baby, and 6 weeks if you're the partner.
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Transportation
We offer a monthly commuting subsidy to help you get to work.
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Health Insurance
We offer a highly-subsidized health, dental, and vision plans.
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Team Activities
Several times a year we have companywide celebrations, such a a holiday party and events celebrating company milestones. We also have occasional engineering-team events like bowling or a retreat.
Twice a year we have a hackathon where people get to put their best idea forward.
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Flexible Hours
Most of our engineers are in the office from 10am-6pm, but you can work the hours the make the most sense for you. If you need to work from home on occasion or leave early for a doctor's appointment, that's fine by us!
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Relocation
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