Job Information:               Looking for a company that inspires passion, courage and imagination, where you can be part of the team shaping the future of global commerce? Want to shape how millions of people buy, sell, connect, and share around the world? If you’re interested in joining a purpose driven community that is dedicated to creating an ambitious and inclusive workplace, join eBay * a company you can be proud to be a part of.   Primary Job Responsibilities: Shipping is one of eBay’s core initiative responsible for delivering the world’s greatest selection cheaply, conveniently and dependably. Shipping team is the driver for many key programs like:

  • eBay Plus: eBay’s answer to Amazon prime in Germany.
  • Click and Collect: Forming symbiotic relationships with other retailers (like Argos in UK, Woolworth in AU) to provide the ability to collect packages in time and place convenient to buyer.
  • Global Shipping Program: Responsible for expanding inventory to international buyers and seamlessly taking care of international shipping on behalf of sellers.
  • Global Label and Tracking Platform: Partnering with carriers all over the world to provide postage (label printing, rates, payment) and tracking solutions to eBay sellers.
  • Shipping Science: Uses big data and machine learning techniques to predict item’s weight and dimension, simplifying the item listing flow for casual C2C sellers, predicts how soon a package will arrive powering key programs like Fast and Free.   Shipping Core Product and Technology domain is all based and operated from eBay’s Seattle (Bellevue) center with full ownership and accountability, providing on-site long term sustained development and carrier growth. Shipping team works to solve highly technical and real-world problems, with cutting edge technologies, massively distributed environments, Big Data and machine learning that makes a real and immediate impact on one of the biggest social community of buyers and sellers.                 Shipping is powered by scalable and distributed services that integrate with whole of eBay (seller listing flow, Search, View Item detail, Cart/Checkout, post transaction selling view

  • label printing and tracking, returns, seller trust standards and marketing to name a few). This provides a real view on how the whole of eBay Product and Technology stack works                We are looking for self-motivated and talented individuals to join us to work on new products that will evolve and grow the eBay Core Shipping Product and Technology team.

  • Design and implement projects throughout all phases of the software development life cycle
  • Work with engineers and other cross functional teams including Research, Project Management, Quality Assurance, Operations etc. to develop great software that meets market needs with respect to functionality, reliability, performance, scalability
  • Track business impact of features on a regular basis, and rely on data to make informed decisions about future directions
  • The usual engineering activities
  • scoping, prioritizing, planning, bug fixing, site rollout, documentation, having fun

  • To succeed in this role you must be passionate about being a customer advocate and delivering high-quality designs and components that horizontally scale. You must be creative in solving hard problems in our high scale systems and unafraid to think out-of-the-box Job Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field like Mathematics
  • Outstanding coding skills in Java, C++ or C# (will be primarily coding in Java) and demonstrated use of test automation to certify your code
  • Great design and problem solving skills, passion for quality and engineering excellence at scale
  • Experience in distributed systems, database technologies, online services is a strong plus
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to work in a fast paced, iterative development environment

  • Demonstrated passion for learning from and implementing creative large-scale architectural patterns to turn business requirements into simple solutions Highly Desired:

  • High performance/high volume application development experience

  • Have a genuine love for technology, and a curiosity for playing with the latest tools and open source frameworks
  • BS in computer science or related field with 3+ yrs. of related professional experience or MS with 1+ yrs. of related professional experience.   

Desired Skills and Experience

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