Sr. Front End Software Engineer (MTS 1)

eBay Inc.; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Staff Front End Software Engineer, where you'll play a vital role in crafting innovative web applications that impact millions of users. This exciting position involves collaborating with diverse teams to design and deliver features that enhance the seller and buyer experience. You'll leverage your expertise in frontend technologies and best practices to create high-quality solutions while thriving in a dynamic, Agile environment. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a difference in the world of ecommerce, this opportunity is perfect for you!

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in building large-scale web applications.
• Proficient in JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and Node.js.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams to develop innovative solutions for web applications.
• Deliver high-quality web experiences using modern technologies.

Skills

JavaScript

HTML5

CSS3

Node.js

Agile Methodologies

Frontend Testing

REST APIs

Cross-browser Design

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

M.S. in Computer Science

Tools

JIRA

Git

CICD

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.

Must Reside in Ontario

About the team and role:

In the eBay Stores and Social team, you will be an integral member of a growing organization that inspires passion, courage, and inventiveness, crafting the future of global commerce and making an important, positive impact on millions of eBay sellers and shoppers around the world.

Technical expertise, curiosity, dedication, pride, respect, teamwork and good communication skills needed. We expect solid computer science fundamentals, a strong drive for results, thrives on continuous innovation, dreams big, self-starts, learns fast, gets things done while having fun.

We are seeking a Staff Front End Software Engineer with proven experience of developing rich web applications to millions of users to join our Seller Experience team to be responsible for architecture, design and delivery of critical seller and buyer facing features and use the standard methodologies in UI development.

What you will accomplish:

• Collaborate closely with peers, Architects, Product Managers, Business Analysts, Quality Engineers, and Operations teams to develop innovative solutions that meet functional and non-functional standards and expectations.
• Be involved in development, testing, release, triage, bug fix, documentation and work in an Agile environment. Use of tools like JIRA, Git, CICD and other internal eBay tools on a regular basis to prioritize work and deliver features.
• Deliver world class web experiences for sellers using modern web technologies while maintaining high quality, reusability, performance and other front end standard methodologies.
• Bring mastery in Frontend development, become comfortable with all the layers of multi-tier applications to craft complete solutions and maintain products.
• Participate in technical design and code reviews and provide feedback to other specialists on the team.
• Estimate engineering efforts, roadmap planning and be responsible for operational processes, such as automation and controls, to help with efficiency and quality of both manual and technical operations.

What you will bring:

• Prefer a B.S. or M.S degree in Computer Science or related field with 8+ years of proven experience in building large-scale web based distributed systems.
• Proficient in Web/Frontend technologies and frameworks like Node.js, HTML5, CSS3 with LESS or SASS, JavaScript, Ajax, streaming technologies.
• Proficient in JavaScript concepts of scopes, prototype inheritance, closures, promises, async and await, shared memory etc.
• Solid CSS3 skills with layouts, media-queries, responsive design, gradients, transitions, positioning, flex, box models, floating and block elements, inlining, preprocessors etc.
• Hands on frontend testing skills using frameworks such as Mocha/Chai, use of mocks/spies/stubs, code coverage and CICD integrations.
• Must have a solid understanding of defining REST based interfaces and have a good understanding of storage technologies (relational and NoSQL).
• Expertise with Security, Accessibility, Site Speed optimization, Cross-browser /Cross-platform UX Design.

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