At eBay, we're more than a global ecommerce leader — we’re changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We’re committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts.

Our customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work — every day. We're in this together, sustaining the future of our customers, our company, and our planet.

Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.

eBay's Buyer Experience engineering team is looking for an outstanding Staff Engineer to work with as we redefine the face of eBay. You’ll be working with a world class team of engineers, designers, product managers, and analysts to create great products that make a difference on one of the world’s most trafficked and loved websites. 

The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of building large scale applications, low latency API’s, data pipelines, and a high focus on capability oriented architecture. As the lead engineer you will oversee aspects of the software lifecycle : design, development, testing and experimentation.

Primary Job Responsibilities

On a day-to-day basis, you’d:

• Be hands on technical lead, work closely with a skilled team of engineers

• Hire top talent, coach and mentor

• Use best practices to write clean, maintainable code for the project, and create a high performant delightful experience for customers

• Identify and address performance bottlenecks

• Be responsible for major projects and features from design phase to coding and testing

• Work closely with product managers, engineering leaders, scientists and collaborate with partner teams to execute a challenging roadmap

Job Requirements

• Exceptional programming skills in Java / Scala

• Experience building and consuming horizontally scalable RESTful API’s, GraphQL and distributed systems

• Experience with big data technologies like Spark, Flink, and Kafka

• Hands on experience with Javascript / Web Frameworks is a plus

• Self-driven and ability to get things done

• Experience with scrum or other agile software development methodology

• A constant desire to improve and learn

• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years (or) a MS in Computer Science and 7+ years of software design and relevant experience

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