Staff, Software Engineer

As a critical member of the Marketplace Analytics team, you’ll use your quantitative background and expertise manipulating large datasets to bring unparalleled insights into user behavior and site performance. Our team tackles a multitude of exciting challenges including designing auctions and evaluating auction behavior, planning and executing advanced experiments and market design mechanisms, and tracking of our business progress to enable Upwork’s growth. If you enjoy building businesses with endless possibilities, this is a great opportunity!

Design and fully execute advanced test methodologies according to business requirements (A/B test, difference-in-difference, switchback, regression discontinuity, etc.);

Generate insights in auction behavior and marketplace design (e.g. rewards and subsidy), and make business recommendations.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, marketing, engineering, UX) closely to advance or launch new monetization products.

Present in key meetings and business reviews with our product leadership.

Advocate advanced causal inference and testing techniques with the broader Analytics team, work with Economics and Data Science teams, and mentor others seeking to develop more advanced capabilities.

Extensive working knowledge of Economics and Statistics via post-graduate education or industry experience.

Experience in causal inference and test designs (A/B test, switchback, difference-in-difference, synthetic control, regression discontinuity, etc).

Experience in structural modeling is a plus.

Experience working with two-sided marketplaces, ads, auctions, or subscriptions is a plus.