Senior Staff Engineer, eBay
Backend
Leading online marketplace
Open for applications
Leading online marketplace
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.
Role
Who you are
- Excellent decision-making skills, thrive on dealing with ambiguities and changes
- Strong sense of ownership and communication skills , embrace diverse ideas across organization and align on a mutually agreed direction to get things done and move forward
- Deeply care about growing others, great at mentoring and coaching, creating a large positive impact on organizational culture
- Strong learning ability, determined
- Attending knowledge sharing sessions, both within the company and externally
- Learning transferable skills
- Growth mindset and constantly looking for opportunities to learn
- Bachelor's degree in EE, CS or other related field
- 10+ years of experience in building large scale, distributed web platforms/APIs with 5+ years as an architect/technical lead responsible for the end to end product scope across multiple domains
- Experience in creating and driving technical strategy and roadmap across multiple domains. Balanced trade-offs to ship scalable solutions supporting long-term goals
- Successfully forge alignments with key partners on significant architecture decisions and technical direction for ambiguous problem areas through Architectural Decision Records (ADR)
- Developed and drove adoption of technical practices that improved team velocity to deliver high-quality code across the organization
- Solid knowledge in end to end system design involving GraphQL/Rest APIs, Messaging Systems, RDBMS/NOSQL, Containers, Infrastructure layer, with deep knowledge in several key components. Experience in GraphQL is preferable
- Experiences in leading complex technical initiatives across teams independently from inception to successful delivery
What the job involves
- Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all
- Independently lead complex technical initiatives within and beyond your team
- Drive technical direction and roadmap, leads across domain teams and guides others towards the right technical decisions
- Authors ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) that serves as blueprint or a proposed solution for a given technical problem and influences overall tech strategy
- Responsible for one or more large functional areas possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise
- Demonstrate strong systems approach, go beyond immediate needs, proactively addressing performance, security, and future-proofing solutions
- Take ownership of complex projects, driving them from conception to successful implementation
- Change agency to set high bar and uplevel across teams on culture, process and engineering practices. Empower teams through effective collaboration, knowledge sharing, and tool building
- Identifying areas in the company platforms likely to change and integrating flexibility in the design for these areas improving engineering velocity
- Long term technology vision to continually modernize and keep systems relevant in constantly changing environments
- Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an "always-on" 24/7 site
- Learns adjacent areas (project management, people management, product management) in addition to core technical skills to better support the organization
Our take
Founded in 1995 as an online auction platform primarily catering to collectibles, eBay quickly emerged as a pioneer in connecting buyers and sellers in the digital realm. This early success propelled eBay to become to globally recognized leader it is today.
In the present landscape, eBay competes with industry giants like Amazon within the C2C eCommerce sector. However, eBay distinguishes itself by fostering an environment where businesses can cultivate and promote their brands on the platform, offering a tailored, community-driven experience for both sellers and buyers. By championing small businesses, eBay attracts sellers and socially conscious consumers, positioning itself in stark contrast to Amazon's corporate image.
The rising consumer interest in sustainability has presented economic opportunities for eBay, particularly as younger demographics gravitate toward purchasing pre-owned items. in response, eBay has directed its marketing efforts toward Gen Z customers and formed partnerships with cultural phenomena like Love Island, further solidifying its appeal among contemporary audiences.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Comprehensive and competitive health and wellness program designed to meet your unique needs.
- We strive to provide programs that help support both mind and body, including quality healthcare insurance, wellness programs and preventative care.
- Stock Purchase Plans
- Retirement Savings and Pension Plans
- Stock Awards
- Life Insurance and Disability Benefits
- Credit Union Memberships
- Balancing work & life - eBay believes in providing you with the opportunity to be your best self in your professional and personal life. In addition to supporting flexible workstyles including hybrid and remote, eBay offers 4 weeks of paid sabbatical time for every 5 years of service
- Giving back to our community - We provide our employees around the globe with opportunities to have a positive impact on their local communities. Through the eBay Foundation, our company matches donations to eligible nonprofits up to $10,000 per employee per year. And our employee-led volunteer groups organize local giving and volunteering activities throughout the world
Company HQ
Greylands, San Jose, CA
Leadership
Jamie Iannone
(CEO, not founder)Studied at Princeton and Stanford University. Held executive roles at Walmart, Barnes & Noble, and The Children's Place, before becoming CEO of eBay in April 2020.
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