Staff Software Engineer Full Stack

Looking for a company that inspires passion, courage and creativity, where you can be on the team shaping the future of global commerce? Want to shape how millions of people buy, sell, connect, and share around the world? If you're interested in joining a purpose driven community that is dedicated to crafting an ambitious and inclusive work environment, join eBay - a company you can be proud to be with.

The Role and Opportunity

View Item and Transaction Flows Engineering team owns item details experience, end to end responsibility for auctions & offers, and SEO optimized landing experiences. In other words, this team is responsible for the heart of eBay. We drive billions of dollars in revenue via 100's of millions of page views delivered daily across the globe, across all devices & browsers. Team and experience have great financial and customer impact and role has high visibility in the organization. In addition, being the core eBay experience, it has to delight the diverse customer base across the world. We ship often, get immediate user feedback and use experimentation to make decisions.

The team works on technologies such as Java, Node.js, web-services, browser-related technologies (jQuery, HTML5, etc.), iOS, Android and database solutions (NoSQL, Oracle, etc.). Like everything else at eBay, we build scalable and highly available systems for the millions of users that depend on us to conduct their businesses.

Primary Job Responsibilities

We're seeking a Member of Technical Staff (MTS1) engineer with a proven track record of building great online (web and mobile) products. As an MTS 1, this person will be hands-on with product development, building high quality software. In addition, they are expected to mentor other engineers while raising the bar on the team's discipline and technical excellence. Being able to deal with complex systems while helping the rest of the team navigate ambiguity in requirements is very important. This role requires partnership and collaboration with other organizations throughout eBay, so they must have great communication skills and the ability to work well with others. Having a good amount of experience with agile teams and methodologies is required.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science plus 8+ years of experience or MS in Computer Science plus 6+ years of hands-on experience in building large-scale distributed systems.
• Define, design, and implement complex, multi-tier distributed software systems scaling beyond 1B requests/day and focused on improving buyer experience at eBay.
• Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures and algorithms.
• Advanced knowledge of model-view-controller (MVC) and object oriented design paradigms.
• Experience in Node.JS, Java, Scala, Oracle/ Mongodb (or other NOSQL db's), REST, Event Source, Web Sockets, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Ajax, JQuery is highly desirable.
• Craft optimized CSS with LESS or SASS.
• Knowledge of cross-browser, cross-platform, and design constraints on the web.
• Propose and implement working prototypes for testing new ideas.
• Drive architecture discussions, produce well-documented design docs, and participate in design and code reviews.
• Ensure code quality and maintainability by evolving architecture and tech stack, refactoring, standards and improving build and test systems.
• Estimate engineering effort, plan execution cycles, and rollout system changes.
• Partner effectively and influence peers, juniors and seniors both within the organization and across eBay.
• Share engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an always-on 24x7 site.

Benefits are an essential part of your total compensation for the work you do every day. Whether you're single, in a growing family, or nearing retirement, eBay offers a variety of comprehensive and competitive benefit programs to meet your needs. Including maternal & paternal leave, paid sabbatical, and plans to help ensure your financial security today and in the years ahead because we know feeling financially secure during your working years and through retirement is important.

Here at eBay, we love creating opportunities for others by connecting people from widely diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and geographies. So, being diverse and inclusive isn't just something we strive for, it is who we are, and part of what we do each and every single day. We want to ensure that as an employee, you feel eBay is a place where, no matter who you are, you feel safe, included, and that you have the opportunity to bring your unique self to work. To learn about eBay's Diversity & Inclusion click here: https://www.ebayinc.com/company/diversity-inclusion/

eBay Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected]. We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible. View our accessibility info to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. For more information see: EEO is the Law Poster and EEO is the Law Poster Supplement.

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