Senior Software Engineer

04 Jul 2024

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Looking for a company that inspires passion, courage and creativity, where you can be on the team shaping the future of global commerce? Want to shape how millions of people buy, sell, connect, and share around the world? If you're interested in joining a purpose driven community that is dedicated to crafting an ambitious and inclusive work environment, join eBay - a company you can be proud to be with.

Who are we?

We are the View Item and Buying Flows Team. Our team owns the item details, experience and critical purchase flows of buy it now, auctions and offers. In other words, this team is responsible for the heart of eBay. We drive billions of dollars in revenue via millions of page views delivered daily across the globe, across all devices & browsers. Our team is highly visible in the organization, has direct business impact to eBay's top-line revenue and has customer impact globally. What we work on here impacts the lives of millions every day. Performance, accuracy, real-time systems (e.g. winning bid), scalability and availability are paramount.

We're looking for the highest levels of technical talent and programming skills, as well as a keen desire to deeply understand our products and services to push our technology forward with respect to functionality, performance, reliability, and scalability.

If you are looking for a challenging opportunity, join us and invent the next generation of eCommerce.

What will you do?
  • Define, design, and implement complex, multi-tier distributed software systems scaling beyond 1B requests/day and focused on improving buyer experience at eBay
  • Technical lead for new and existing product initiatives, assist with definition of product direction
  • Push the bar to solve complex technical challenges of scale and performance
  • Partner effectively and influence peers, juniors and seniors both within the organization and across eBay
  • Large scale data processing to understand user behavior and help define new product features
  • Estimate engineering effort, plan execution cycles, and rollout system changes
  • Mentor junior peers in technical design
Job Requirements
  • Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures and algorithms.
  • Expertise required in object-oriented design methodology and large scale application development in Java (or any other object oriented language)
  • Excellent understanding of distributed systems and service oriented architecture
  • Proven results-oriented person with a focus on delivery in a high-velocity, high-scalability and high-availability environment.
  • Enthusiasm and willingness to learn new technologies and dig into problems
  • Good communication skills
  • Familiarity with eCommerce is a plus
  • 5 years of work experience or MS in Computer Science plus 3 years of experience
Benefits are an essential part of your total compensation for the work you do every day. Whether you're single, in a growing family, or nearing retirement, eBay offers a variety of comprehensive and competitive benefit programs to meet your needs. Including maternal & paternal leave, paid sabbatical, and plans to help ensure your financial security today and in the years ahead because we know feeling financially secure during your working years and through retirement is important.

Here at eBay, we love creating opportunities for others by connecting people from widely diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and geographies. So, being diverse and inclusive isn't just something we strive for, it is who we are, and part of what we do each and every single day. We want to ensure that as an employee, you feel eBay is a place where, no matter who you are, you feel safe, included, and that you have the opportunity to bring your unique self to work. To learn about eBay's Diversity & Inclusion click here: https://www.ebayinc.com/company/diversity-inclusion/

eBay Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at . We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible. Jobs posted with location as "Remote - United States (Excludes CO, HI, NM)" excludes Colorado, Hawaii and New Mexico.

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  • ID: #43814432
  • State: California Losaltos 94022 Losaltos USA
  • City: Losaltos
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2022-07-04
  • Deadline: 2022-08-30
  • Category: Et cetera