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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 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

You’ll 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 Node.js using TypeScript.

Responsibilities

Building and extending front-end React and Node.js applications, ensuring they are maintainable, secure, and scalable.

Improving application quality and deployment speed, through refactoring code, proposing new tools and changing processes.

Effectively communicating your progress to your team members, your manager and wider eBay colleagues.

Collaborating with team members and stakeholders to implement best practices in software engineering and architecture.

Supporting the transformation of our rapidly evolving shipping platform by contributing to research, scoping, and planning of new features.

Assisting with observability by helping to maintain logging, monitoring, and alerting, as well as learning from production incidents.

Participating in mentorship by seeking guidance from senior colleagues and engaging in learning opportunities such as pair programming and team knowledge-sharing sessions.

Requirements

To be considered for this role, you must have commercial experience and a passion working with:

React,

Node.js,

TypeScript,

testing frameworks (such as Playwright and Jest),

and 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 you’ll have the edge if you also have experience with:

Grafana,

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 we’re in the office, a light breakfast and lunch are provided, and a weekly massage. There’s 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 you’re 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 https://ebaybenefits.com/gbr/employee.html 

Terms and Diversity

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eBay 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 have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at talent@ebay.com. We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible. View our accessibility statement to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities.

 

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