Frontend Engineer - SE3 (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 Frontend Software Engineer, 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:

• Develop features and services in highly scalable and reliable frontend and/or backend systems in a distributed system environment.
• Able to translate product and design documents into clean, high-quality, well-tested and maintainable production code autonomously
• Write test automations and practice continuous integration
• Conduct code review for immediate team
• Develop and maintain technical documentation to support software applications.
• Practices evidence-centered design making features testable, ensuring high quality and improving velocity in continuous delivery.
• Accountable for multiple subsystems within a larger domain, taking full responsibility for their entire life cycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, observability and monitoring.
• Propose and evaluate multiple design options, providing estimates for each.
• Structure and complete tasks independently, meeting deadlines and milestones.
• Effectively communicate assumptions and seek clarification from stakeholders, ensuring alignment and understanding across all domains.
• Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an "always-on" 24/7 site.

What you bring:

• Strong sense of ownership and interpersonal skills
• Self-driven with a strong ability to learn and adapt quickly
• Passion for exploring new and emerging technologies within your area of expertise.
• Commitment to continuous learning through internal and external knowledge-sharing.
• Interest in developing transferable skills and growing across fields.

What we bring:

• Exciting product mission with impactful technical challenges - dive into the heart of eCommerce innovation at Buyer Experiences, where we’re redefining 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. Applying innovative 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.
• 4+ years of experience working in front-end development using Javascript/Typescript, CSS, React, NodeJS, Server-side rendering using one of the open-sourced UI libraries (Material UI/Ant UI), Integration with REST/GraphQL APIs
• Strong portfolio demonstrating BEM-structured CSS and understand the intricacies of how browsers work 
• Strong CS foundation (Data structures, Algorithms, Functional Programing)
• Delivers results in fast-paced environments (agile, TDD, CI/CD)
• Designs and builds scalable, distributed, available systems

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

$147,200 - $196,500

Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employees will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

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