Staff Engineer (React/Node)
Staff Engineer (React/Node)
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Job Description
At eBay were more than a global ecommerce leader were changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. Were 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. Were 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 role
You will play a major role in helping millions of eBay sellers connect to our buyers worldwide via shipping experiences which delight and help our sellers grow their business. We are looking for someone who is product and delivery driven and passionate about crafting innovative products at scale. You together with the rest of your team will support what you build in production. We release continuously - multiple times a day. We value getting feedback from production and using this data to drive further improvements and features.
The team
Youll be one of 6-8 software engineers in the team. The team is led by an Engineering Manager and has a dedicated Product Manager and designer. We own a suite of web applications within the shipping space built with React and using TypeScript.
Responsibilities
Architecting and building front-end React & applications that are secure maintainable extensible and capable of meeting the demands of eBays scale.
Providing technical leadership and leading inter-team collaboration. This is a senior technical leadership role where you are expected to influence teams and stakeholders across eBay with sound engineering and architectural patterns and practices.
Leading the transformation of our rapidly evolving shipping platform by assisting engineering and product managers in researching scoping and planning new platform capabilities.
Driving data-informed decision-making by working with and interpreting metrics and data collected via analytics tooling to advance our platform.
Leading on observability across your team and wider eBay. This involves supporting our applications in production setting up and maintaining logging monitoring and alerting as well as guiding the team to internalise learnings from production incidents.
Mentoring teammates fostering their growth through collaboration frequent brown bag sessions and direct support such as pair programming both in the office and remotely.
Improving the teams DevOps best practices by enhancing the quality and speed of build and deployment pipelines proposing new tools and refining processes.
Requirements
To be considered for this role you must have significant commercial experience and a passion working with:
React
TypeScript
testing frameworks (such as Playwright and Jest)
and significant experience with:
monitoring the health of your applications in production
developing and using enterprise APIs
accessibility-minded experiences and
working in a continuous delivery environment.
Nice-to-have
Not vital but youll have the edge if you also have experience with:
Grafana
Prometheus / Loki
Kubernetes
Sentry and
Storybook.
or have worked in:
an eCommerce organisation or
a shipping/logistics/exports organisation.
Location
This is a hybrid role. Our offices are in Shoreditch London. Currently we are spending three days a week collaborating and socialising with our colleagues in our Shoreditch office. When were in the office a light breakfast and lunch are provided and a weekly massage. Theres a bike rack and a shower too. Shoreditch is a lively area of London - we often go out after work in one of the many bars or restaurants in the area.
Benefits
Benefits are an essential part of your total compensation for the work you do every day. Whether youre single in a growing family or nearing retirement eBay offers a variety of comprehensive and competitive benefit programs to meet your needs.
In addition to a competitive salary eBay UK benefits include:
25 days paid time off - increasing to 27 after two years and an additional day each year up to a maximum of 30
A sabbatical of 4 weeks every 5 years
20 weeks paid leave for birth parents 12 weeks leave for non-birth parents (fathers adoptive parents surrogacy)
Private health insurance dental and eye care
Life and disability insurance
Employee stock purchase plan (15% discount) and Restricted Stock Unit (RSUs) grant
Employer contributed pension up to 9%
Read more about our benefits at and Diversity
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
