Software Engineer II, Cloud Platform

The role

This person will design, develop, and maintain backend services that support the marketplace experience. They will work on building reliable, high-performance, cloud-native services used by millions of users.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services.
• Collaborate with peers and senior engineers to implement scalable, efficient, and maintainable systems.
• Write clean, well-documented, and well-tested code.
• Participate in code reviews.
• Troubleshoot and fix issues across distributed systems in production environments.
• Contribute to improving development processes, tooling, and team workflows.
• Ship production-quality code.
• Take ownership of small to medium-sized components or features.
• Collaborate with Product, QA, and Design teams on feature delivery.
• Mentor interns or new hires.

Required qualifications

• 2 - 4 years of professional experience (including internships) in backend software engineering.
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals — data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g., Ruby, Java, Python, or Go).
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs, databases (SQL/NoSQL), and caching or message-queue systems.
• Interest in cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, or similar) and scalable architectures.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

About the company

Poshmark is a fashion marketplace with 165 million members. It provides a social experience for buying and selling fashion.