Senior Software Developer (Java/Scala) The worldwide eBay marketplace permanently features more than 800 million items from private and commercial sellers. With mobile apps now available in 190+ countries, eBay provides easy access to merchandise from both local resellers and vendors around the world. Through industry-specific shopping worlds such as eBay Fashion and eBay Motors, eBay creates individually tailored shopping experiences for individual categories. Sellers can use eBay to offer their items to consumers around the world through a variety of channels – both online and mobile.
eBay’s DE Product Development team is based in Dreilinden (Berlin) and is part of the global Core Product and Technology team. We enable commerce at scale, and have massive customer impact. Whilst doing all this, we are on a mission to improve eBay technology, drive agile adoption and demonstrate customer-centric development targeted towards our customers in Germany. While focused on local market needs we also chip in to eBay’s global product and technology portfolio. To do this, we improve existing experiences, build or extend core products and experiment with new innovations to make the lives of eBay customers better.
We are continually aspiring for the highest quality, and work in small focused teams following bits of Scrum, bits of Kanban, with a healthy dose of Extreme Programming (p.s. these aren't buzzwords, we mean it when we say we do this stuff).
Our cross-functional teams have Product Management, all aspects of Product Development (including DevOps and Test), and UX all working together every day. We are collocated with eBay Germany’s business teams and closely interact with our German customers and other eBay teams on a daily basis.
Working at eBay is a rewarding, challenging and inspiring experience.
So, what type of Engineer are we looking for? - You are a go-to person for building high availability, scalable applications and RESTful APIs. You are experienced in instructing and leading by example, and in mentoring junior and senior engineers.
- Most of our applications are written in Java, Scala or Node.JS/JavaScript, but as someone who is passionate about development, you’ll be open to picking up new languages and frameworks when the situation arises and coming up to speed on various existing eBay technologies for an internal open source model where we work in a variety of projects and codebases.
- We love people with diverse experience who are committed to learning and moving things forward with an obsession for delivering customer value through the craft of software development. Show us your github repo, side projects, and open source repositories that you have chipped in to!
- Our developers decide the right tool for the job, so you should be comfortable doing this too. We have a lot fun discussing the merits of different technology and we want you to join and lead these conversations.
- You are concerned about test-driven, clean code, delightful user experiences and all the appealing stuff that's involved with automatically tested, continuously deployed applications. You will enjoy pair programming on pretty much everything.
- You will write your own tests, whilst learning from embedded test engineers who code. You have depth of experience, but are open to being more broad too. For example, our Java developers learn from the JavaScript experts, and vice versa.
- Having a desire to expand and master something new while collaborating means you're a good fit for us.
- You are highly proficient in English, fluency in German is a strong plus.
What do we offer? - Dynamic, international teams with very skilled personalities, a passion for e-commerce, professionalism and a good sense of humour.
- The chance to work closely with other teams across eBay; in Europe, Australia, the USA and globally.
- A competitive salary, phenomenal benefits and an excellent working environment.
- Silicon Valley amenities, such as iPhones and MacBook Pros, crazy high spec dev machines and brand new office facilities modern, tech-rich office building equipped with 500 devices ready to connect across five continents and 16 countries in Dreilinden, close to Berlin Wannsee.
- An opportunity to build applications which are used by your friends, neighbors and family in addition to millions of people globally.
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. Including maternal & paternal leave, paid sabbatical, and plans to help ensure your financial security today and in the years ahead because we know feeling financially secure during your working years and through retirement is important.
Here at eBay, we love creating opportunities for others by connecting people from widely diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and geographies. So, being diverse and inclusive isn’t just something we strive for, it is who we are, and part of what we do each and every single day. We want to ensure that as an employee, you feel eBay is a place where, no matter who you are, you feel safe, included, and that you have the opportunity to bring your unique self to work. To learn about eBay’s Diversity & Inclusion visit our website.
