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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 a hand 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
The pay range for this position at commencement of employment in California, Washington, or New York is expected in the range below.
$149,200 - $234,850
Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.
If hired, employees will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.
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