Staff Engineer (React/Node)

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.

Responsibilities

Architecting and building front-end React & Node.js applications that are secure, maintainable, extensible, and capable of meeting the demands of eBay’s scale.
Providing technical leadership and leading inter-team collaboration. This is a senior technical leadership role where you are expected to influence teams and stakeholders across eBay with sound engineering and architectural patterns and practices.
Leading the transformation of our rapidly evolving shipping platform by assisting engineering and product managers in researching, scoping, and planning new platform capabilities.
Driving data-informed decision-making by working with and interpreting metrics and data collected via analytics tooling to advance our platform.
Leading on observability across your team and wider eBay. This involves supporting our applications in production, setting up and maintaining logging, monitoring, and alerting, as well as guiding the team to internalise learnings from production incidents.
Mentoring teammates, fostering their growth through collaboration, frequent brown bag sessions, and direct support such as pair programming, both in the office and remotely.
Improving the team’s DevOps best practices by enhancing the quality and speed of build and deployment pipelines, proposing new tools, and refining processes.

Skills

React
Node.js
TypeScript
Testing frameworks (such as Playwright and Jest)

Qualifications

Monitoring the health of your applications in production
Developing and using enterprise APIs
Accessibility-minded experiences
Working in a continuous delivery environment

Benefits

💼 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%

Company

eBay

Location

London, United Kingdom

Salary

Not provided