Senior Frontend Engineer - MTS 1

eBay; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a skilled front-end developer to innovate and enhance the eCommerce experience. Join a vibrant team dedicated to transforming the shopping journey through cutting-edge technologies, including Generative AI. This role offers the opportunity to work on impactful technical challenges while fostering a culture of diversity and collaboration. If you're passionate about creating exceptional user experiences and thrive in a fast-paced environment, this is the perfect opportunity to make your mark in the world of online commerce.

Benefits

Flexible Working

Competitive Compensation

Health and Wellbeing Benefits

Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience with front-end systems using modern frameworks.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating structured CSS and browser intricacies.

Responsibilities

• Translate requirements into software design and create maintainable code.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to develop innovative solutions.
• Lead engineering support and manage project features for efficient execution.

Skills

Javascript

Typescript

CSS

React

NodeJS

Server-side rendering

Agile methodologies

TDD

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in EE or CS

Tools

Webpack

Express.js

Material UI

Ant UI

Job description

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.

Looking for a company where you can shape how the world buys, sells, and gives? Where you’ll be part of a work culture that’s been genuinely committed to diversity and inclusion since its founding more than 25 years ago? Where you can just be yourself, do your best work, and have a meaningful impact? If so, we’d love to talk to you.

Every day, millions of users sell and ship their wares using eBay. Our team supports this diverse community by building shipping products around the globe, helping individual sellers and small businesses to meet the growing expectations of online buyers. We are an agile team who adapt quickly and stay curious. Join us to make an impact on one of the world’s largest e-commerce websites.

What you'll do and learn:

• Translate requirements to software design and create clean, efficient, extensible, maintainable code.
• Responsible for a large functional area possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise.
• Influencer across domain teams and guiding others towards the right technical decisions.
• Improves team productivity by identifying and evangelizing opportunities for productivity improvements.
• Identifying areas in the team applications likely to change and integrating flexibility in the design for these areas improving engineering velocity.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners to develop innovative solutions that adhere to development goals and principles.
• Practices evidence-centered design making features testable, ensuring high quality and improving velocity in continuous delivery.
• Manage project features, break into sub-tasks, identify and resolve issues for efficient execution.
• Provide technical guidance, code review for immediate team and other teams, contribute and review ADRs (Architecture Decision Records), coaching, and mentorship to individual team members within and outside teams.
• Identify gaps and issues across systems and functional areas, propose solutions, build the engineering roadmap, and drive resolution.
• Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an "always-on" 24/7 site.

What you bring:

• Innovative, team player, excellent communication and decision-making.
• Strong sense of ownership and interpersonal skills to work effectively across teams.
• Strong learning ability, self-driven.
• Excited about new and innovative technologies within immediate field of expertise.
• Attending knowledge sharing sessions, both within the company and externally.
• Learning transferable skills.

What we bring:

• Exciting Product Mission with Impactful Technical Challenges - Dive into the heart of eCommerce innovation at Buyer Experiences, where we’re transforming 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. Utilizing cutting-edge 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.
• 6+ years of experience designing front-end systems and 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 understanding the intricacies of how browsers work. Experience with Webpack and Express.js.
• Delivers results in fast-paced environments (agile, TDD, CI/CD).
• Designs and builds scalable, distributed, high-performant, robust and high-available systems.