Software Engineer opportunity in the eBay Bucks Team

eBay Bucks team in Buyer Experience engineering organization is seeking a talented, motivated and passionate software engineer to join the team. As a self-motivated member of our team, you will be working closely with talented engineers in building the next generation of the rewards engine at ebay. You can check out the current program here http://pages.ebay.com/rewards/tutorial.html .

The opportunity will include launching the product in other geographies and building the solution optimal to local markets.

You will have an opportunity to own and drive the end-to-end implementation of one or more features of the solution. Apart from the challenge of building a product that seamlessly integrates with all key flows of buyer transactions, you will have the gratification of rewarding and driving engagement of the best customers on the marketplace.

- At least 4 years of experience in building high performance transaction processing systems.
- Strong java and SQL skills.
- Strong understanding of Object oriented programming concepts.
- Experience in building SOA based solutions.
- Domain knowledge of loyalty products like coupons and rewards is a plus.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical issues to technical and non-technical audience.


- Proven experience working with business and product management teams in successfully implementing data driven solutions. 
- Excellent problem solving skills.

- Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and rollout system changes.

- Good time management and ability to work on concurrent assignments with different priorities
- Interest in learning or experience with other distributed computing software’s like Hadoop and MapReduce is a plus.

Software Engineer - eBay Bucks Team

Software Engineer Career opening in the Search Engineer Optimization Team

Search Engine Optimization team at ebay is working on very exciting opportunities with a huge impact to ebay, and ecommerce in general. It is a relatively new team composed of applied researchers, engineers and search architects, who, in little over a year, doubled the share of incremental revenue to ebay via natural search. Ebay has a large repository of user generated, high value, ephemeral content via around 100 million new item listings every week, generating a unique problem for search engines and, that along with billions of unique keywords that get searched for in any given month, generates massive amounts of data to slice and dice for our team. We are looking for applied researchers with expertise in information retrieval technologies, with a passion for problem solving and making an impact.

This opportunity is to work on product development organization in SEO team at eBay, with a focus on intl SEO. We are looking for strong versatile engineers to work on improving natural search traffic to eBay.  We are looking to add strong team players with passion for building complete product solutions and surpass aggressive business goals.

Responsibilities will include:

• Design, develop and support worldwide projects throughout all phases of the software development life cycle
• Work with engineers and other cross functional teams like Product Management, Project Management, Release Engineering, Quality Engineering, Operations teams etc. to develop innovative solutions that meet market needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, realistic implementation schedules, and adherence to development goals and principles
• Lead product initiatives, recommend improvements, mentor and guide junior team members
• Develop industry and product technical expertise
• Support site rollouts and be available to resolve site issues

Qualifications:

• Collaborate with product management, engineers, Quality Engineering and Operations teams to build solutions in the search domain.
• Strong object-oriented software development experience using Java and knowledge of design patterns.
• Estimate engineering effort, plan implementations, and rollout for applications with implications to cross-functional teams.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide guidance when necessary.
• Prior experience in leading large scale projects a big plus.
• Object oriented design and development using Java/C++
• Strong problem solving skills and understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Nice to have - Experience in data mining using Hadoop.

Please contact me if interested.
jpenick_at_ebay.com