Senior Software Engineer, eBay

• We are looking for someone who is product and delivery driven, and passionate about crafting innovative products at scale
• To be considered for this role, you must have significant commercial experience and a passion working with:
• React,
• Node.js,
• TypeScript,
• Testing frameworks (such as Playwright and Jest),
• And significant experience with:
• Monitoring the health of your applications in production,
• Developing and using enterprise APIs,
• Accessibility-minded experiences, and
• Working in a continuous delivery environment

Desirable

• You will play a major role in helping millions of eBay sellers connect to our buyers worldwide via shipping experiences which delight and help our sellers grow their business
• You, together with the rest of your team, will support what you build in production. We release continuously - multiple times a day. We value getting feedback from production and using this data to drive further improvements and features
• You’ll be one of 6-8 software engineers in the team. The team is led by an Engineering Manager and has a dedicated Product Manager and designer. We own a suite of web applications within the shipping space built with React and Node.js using TypeScript
• Architecting and building front-end React & Node.js applications that are secure, maintainable, extensible, and capable of meeting the demands of eBay’s scale
• Providing technical leadership and leading inter-team collaboration. This is a senior technical leadership role where you are expected to influence teams and stakeholders across eBay with sound engineering and architectural patterns and practices
• Leading the transformation of our rapidly evolving shipping platform by assisting engineering and product managers in researching, scoping, and planning new platform capabilities
• Driving data-informed decision-making by working with and interpreting metrics and data collected via analytics tooling to advance our platform
• Leading on observability across your team and wider eBay. This involves supporting our applications in production, setting up and maintaining logging, monitoring, and alerting, as well as guiding the team to internalise learnings from production incidents
• Mentoring teammates, fostering their growth through collaboration, frequent brown bag sessions, and direct support such as pair programming, both in the office and remotely
• Improving the team’s DevOps best practices by enhancing the quality and speed of build and deployment pipelines, proposing new tools, and refining processes