Staff Software Engineer

 

Description:



Looking for a company where you can shape how the world buys, sells, and gives? Where you’ll be part of a work culture that’s been genuinely committed to diversity and inclusion since its founding more than 25 years ago? Where you can just be yourself, do your best work, and have a meaningful impact? If so, we’d love to talk to you.

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.

What You'll Do And Learn
 

  • 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.

     

What You Bring
 

  • 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

     

What We Bring
 

  • Exciting Product Mission with Impactful Technical Challenges - Dive into the heart of eCommerce innovation at Buyer Experiences, where we’re transforming eBay's shopping journey. By focusing on simplification, personalization, and modernization, we aim to build world-class buyer and seller experiences on eBay marketplaces with creativity and passion. Utilizing cutting-edge technologies like Generative AI, you'll tackle complex challenges that directly improve the shopping experience for millions of eBay users everyday.
  • Vibrant Culture - At Buyer Experiences, our strength lies in our diversity, transparency, and collaborative spirit. Our open culture ensures every voice is valued and heard. We celebrate our successes together and approach each challenge as an opportunity for collective growth. Be a part of a dynamic community that not only values your expertise but is also committed to your personal and professional growth.
  • Flexible Working - Enjoy exceptional support for remote work, allowing you to balance your professional and personal life seamlessly.
  • Competitive Compensation and Benefit - No matter where you are in the world, eBay supports your health and wellbeing with benefits as unique as you. Explore the benefits that help you be your best self. Check out our benefits here: https://www.ebaybenefits.com/index.html.

     

Qualifications
 

  • 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.

     

Organization eBay
Industry IT / Telecom / Software Jobs
Occupational Category Staff Software Engineer
Job Location Toronto,Canada
Shift Type Morning
Job Type Full Time
Gender No Preference
Career Level Experienced Professional
Experience 8 Years
Posted at 2025-03-01 9:09 pm
Expires on 2025-05-19