[Hiring] Staff Frontend Engineer @eBay

Role Description

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

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.

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.

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.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• 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.
• Vibrant Culture - At Buyer Experiences, our strength lies in our diversity, transparency, and collaborative spirit.
• Flexible Working - Enjoy exceptional support for remote work, allowing you to balance your professional and personal life seamlessly.
• Competitive Compensation and Benefit - eBay supports your health and wellbeing with benefits as unique as you.