Staff Frontend Software Engineer, eBay
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
- Deeply care about what you build. Have strong sense of ownership to work effectively across teams & multiple division stakeholders
- Deeply care about growing others, great at mentoring and coaching, creating a large positive impact on organizational culture
- Strong growth mindset and constantly looking for opportunities to learn
- Bring critical thought and opinion
- Embrace diverse ideas to get things done and move forward
- Bachelor's degree in EE, CS or other related field
- 8+ years of experience designing front-end systems and development using Javascript/Typescript, React, NodeJS, Server-side rendering using one of the open-sourced UI libraries (Material UI/Angular Material), integration with REST/GraphQL APIs
- Successful history of designing and building scalable, distributed and high-available systems. Have critical thought and opinion on how Web Frontend systems should work and be integrated with Backend APIs to ensure high-performant, responsive website and accessibility
- Experience taking a lead role delivering complex software systems through collaboration across disciplines including Product and UX
- Experience in BEM-structured CSS, Webpack and Express.js
- Experiences in contributing to common (open-source) libraries/tools/components is a plus
What the job involves
- Every day, millions of users sell and ship their wares using eBay
- Our team supports this diverse community by building shipping products around the globe, helping individual sellers and small businesses to meet the growing expectations of online buyers
- We are an agile team who adapt quickly and stay curious
- Join us to make an impact on one of the world’s largest e-commerce websites
- Translate requirements to software design and create clean, efficient, extensible, maintainable code
- Responsible for a large functional area possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise
- Influencer across domain teams and guiding others towards the right technical decisions
- Improves team productivity by identifying and evangelizing opportunities for productivity improvements
- Identifying areas in the team applications likely to change and integrating flexibility in the design for these areas improving engineering velocity
- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners to develop innovative solutions that adhere to development goals and principles
- Practices evidence-centered design making features testable, ensuring high quality and improving velocity in continuous delivery
- Manage project features, break into sub-tasks, identify and resolve issues for efficient execution
- Provide technical guidance, code review for immediate team and other teams, contribute and review ADRs (Architecture Decision Records), coaching, and mentorship to individual team members within and outside teams
- Identify gaps and issues across systems and functional areas, propose solutions, build the engineering roadmap, and drive resolution
- Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an "always-on" 24/7 site
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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