Wish

Wish gives everyone access to the most affordable, convenient, and effective shopping mall and affordable goods.

Sf, silicon valley

501+ employees

101 - 250 engineers

$100m+ funding

Series g

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Wish is an e-commerce platform that specializes in discounts and mobile shopping.

Why join us?

We have doubled revenue every year and on target to hit 2 billion dollars in revenue this year.
Challenging technical problems surrounding our hundreds of millions of users and systems managing billions of dollars globally.
Competitive compensation and benefits, located in the heart of San Francisco with close proximity to BART, buses etc.

Engineering at Wish

Engineering team and processes

-Two week sprints

-Agile framework: things change quickly, teams need to adapt

-Lead Engineer/ PM works with engineers on the sprints

-Communicate with stakeholders on the progress of the sprint and tasks

-Launch impactful features and monitor impact.

Technical Challenges

Solving large scaling challenges around our hundreds of millions of customers, millions of sellers and billions of dollars in transactions.

When running multiple experiments with users, it sometimes becomes difficult to ensure experiments remain independent of each other that can cause noise in the data or pollute the key metrics to make informed decisions

Performance vs cost trade off (infra issues)

Projects you might work on

Wish Assistant- a feature for customer

-Launched a chatbot that users interact with when they face issues and want to contact support -Reduced ticket creation by 50% -Improved average turn around time of agents from 24 hours to ~6 hours

Tech stack

Programming Language: Python Frontend Technologies: JavaScript for the frontend / UI. Backbone

jQuery

Require.js

SASS (CSS) Main Database: MongoDB Big Data Systems: Hadoop

Hive Infrastructure: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Java

Kotlin