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Software Engineer | Growth & SEO

Created on 16-02-2018
Location Palo Alto

Description

About Houzz
Houzz is the leading home renovation and design platform in the world. We have a highly engaged community of more than 40 million unique monthly users who leverage our technologies to find inspiration for their next home project, connect with over 2.3 million home design and remodeling professionals and discover products in the Houzz Shop.
About the Role
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to grow a global business spanning a multi-million product e-commerce catalog and millions of local professional profiles across 14 international sites. You will work as a full-stack software engineer across all aspects of Houzz to drive organic traffic growth, building both user facing components and underlying site frameworks and data classification. You will be challenged to devise and implement Growth/SEO strategies across all that Houzz offers - photos, industry professionals, products, stories, and discussions. You will also have the opportunity to dive deeply into data analytics to identify opportunities and understand the impact of your work.
What You'll Do
  • Identify opportunities and taking ownership of projects in Growth/SEO
  • A/B test features to understand the effects of projects and prioritize initiatives
  • Develop solutions to improve page relevance/richness, internal linking, and indexation rules
  • Develop infrastructure and features to serve the most relevant and engaging content to Houzz users
  • Build internal tools to improve the productivity of the marketing team
  • Work cross-functionally across other product teams to help them leverage opportunities for organic traffic growth
  • Mentor junior team members in both engineering and the Growth/SEO domain
  • At a Minimum, We’d Like You to Have
  • Experience in web stack programming, from schema design to building user-facing interfaces
  • Experience working on fast paced, data-driven projects
  • 1+ years working experience for sites with millions of pages/users
  • B.S., M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent 
  • Ideally, You’ll Also Have
  • A Passion for growth and/or SEO and desire to stay current on latest trends
  • Experience growing organic traffic through mechanisms like: internal linking, improving crawl efficiency, improving richness of a page
  • Benefit

    TGIF lunches

    TGIF lunches

    Cake and birthday celebrations every Fridays!

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    Possibility to earn high commissions

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    Access to our flexible benefits program including childcare vouchers, Cycle to Work (bicycle parking and showers available onsite), dental insurance, health screenings and an annual season ticket subsidy and loan program.

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    Gym membership discounts (London)

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