Job Description

Who are we?

We are the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) team at eBay, responsible for bringing external traffic to eBay. Our team loves to solve SEO problems the engineering way using the latest technologies. We build large scale systems and frameworks serving billion requests a day; internal tools to gain better insights into SEO; and research on complex data problems. Our work has a direct business impact and helps eBay grow user base.

We are dynamic, versatile and always eager to take on new problems as we continue to build next generation systems and grow the business.

Were 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.

* Should be able to lead a small team

* Enthusiasm and willingness to learn new technologies and dig into problems

* Good communication skills

* NoSQL databases experience is a plus

* Large scale data processing experience using Hadoop, etc. is a plus

* Familiarity with eCommerce is a plus

* 5 years of work experience or MS in Computer Science plus 2 years of experience

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 talent@ebay.com. We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.

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