Software Engineer MTS

Job Duties

• Design, develop and deploy product-based search experience incorporating software engineering best practices to enhance eBay’s buying experience and test complex software features.
• Identify and fix performance, scalability, and other software live issues in a very time-critical environment.
• Ensure code quality and maintainability by evolving architecture and tech stack, refactoring, standards and improving build and test systems.
• Estimate engineering efforts, plan execution cycles, and rollout system changes.
• Utilize experience with automation testing frameworks and web development technologies.
• Build and support complex web services and experience services stack. Write client-side code for web-based applications and develop new prototypes quickly.
• Work closely with eBay’s Product, Science, Ranking, Front End, and Design teams to customize the user experience for eBay search.
• Develop and implement the next generation search products that are fast, scalable, secure, and easy to use.
• Partial telecommuting permitted from within a commutable distance.

Minimum Requirements:

• Master’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Engineering, or a closely related field plus three years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
• Employer will accept a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Engineering or a closely related field plus five years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

Special Skill Requirements:

• Experience designing and developing large-scale software applications using Object-Oriented Design and Java (2 years).
• Experience writing scripts and designing tooling and automation using Python (2 years).
• Experience using server-side Java frameworks including Spring and Spring Boot (2 years).
• Experience using Distributed backend systems for storage and retrieval of data, and experience with database technologies including SQL and NoSQL databases (2 years).
• Experience launching features based on A/B testing framework, and writing production ready code for customer facing features (2 years).
• Experience building backend application using graphQL framework (2 years).
• Experience productionizing and developing in containers like Kubernetes (2 years).
• Experience working with Front End Engineers and using design tools (Figma or Lucidchart) and JavaScript to establish contracts or prototypes for features (2 years).
• Experience with data structures and algorithms, software design patterns, and agile methodology (2 years).
• Experience using day-to-day software engineering skills including Linux, Git, Docker, Postman and RESTful API services (2 years).