Staff Frontend Engineer (eBay Live)

At eBay, we're more than a global ecommerce leader — we’re changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We’re committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts.

Our customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work — every day. We're in this together, sustaining the future of our customers, our company, and our planet.

Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.

About the Team

You’ll be part of the team building eBay Live, eBay’s newest shopping experience and live shopping platform. Live shopping is a natural extension of eBay’s ethos —highlighting unique items, collectibles, and fashion while enabling real-time interaction between buyers and sellers. This is a relatively new trend in the US and Europe, growing quickly, and is already broadly established in APAC.

We are looking to hire a passionate, collaborative and motivated Staff Frontend Engineer - MTS 2, who will help us develop and evolve eBay Live to be a market leader in live shopping and become a key part of the global eBay platform.

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.
• Strong sense of ownership with outstanding interpersonal skills 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 learning ability, self-driven
• Attending knowledge sharing sessions, both within the company and externally
• Learning transferable skills
• Growth mindset and constantly looking for opportunities to learn

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: .

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
• Experience in BEM-structured CSS, Webpack and Express.js
• Contributions to common libraries/components
• Designs and builds scalable, distributed and high-available systems, ensuring high-performant, responsive website and accessibility.
• Experience taking a lead role delivering complex software systems and have a strong opinion on how backend systems should work and be integrated seamlessly.
  

Additional Details

This job posting relates to an existing vacancy within eBay.

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