2 hours ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Translate customer and business problems into technical designs, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes.
- Design, build, test, release, and operate scalable web applications and distributed services.
- Develop production code across browser, server, API, and persistence layers.
- Own systems through observability, capacity planning, rollout, incident response, post-incident learning, and continuous improvement.
- Build systems meeting availability, latency, resilience, security, privacy, accessibility, and cost-efficiency expectations.
- Collaborate with product, design, analytics, quality engineering, platform, security, and operations partners.
- Use data, customer feedback, and controlled experimentation to evaluate decisions.
- Improve developer productivity through tooling, automated testing, continuous delivery, documentation, and maintainable architecture.
- Identify technical risks and technical debt and deliver incremental modernization.
- Mentor engineers through pairing, design feedback, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-assisted development tools, and apply them responsibly.
- Participate in a sustainable on-call rotation and share responsibility for production reliability.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating large-scale web applications or distributed systems.
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, networking, and distributed-system concepts.
- Experience taking substantial features or services from design through production operation.
- Experience producing technical designs, evaluating tradeoffs, reviewing code, and influencing implementation decisions.
- Proficiency with Node.js and Express using server-side TypeScript or JavaScript, including API design, distributed services, and asynchronous or event-driven systems.
- Proficiency with TypeScript or JavaScript, React or another modern component framework, semantic HTML, and CSS.
- Experience delivering across browser, server, API, and persistence layers and diagnosing cross-layer issues.
- Experience building responsive, accessible, performant, and cross-browser web experiences.
- Experience with automated unit, integration, contract, or end-to-end testing and CI/CD practices.
- Working knowledge of secure development, observability, performance analysis, and production troubleshooting.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills and the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to technical and non-technical partners.
- Experience mentoring engineers and improving team-level engineering practices.
- Preferred experience with high-traffic commerce, payments, marketplace, advertising, or other customer-critical systems.
- Preferred experience with cloud-native platforms, containers, orchestration, caching, messaging, or streaming technologies.
- Preferred familiarity with service-level objectives, distributed tracing, capacity planning, resilience testing, and progressive delivery.
- Preferred experience with server-side rendering, Core Web Vitals, internationalization, and WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility.
- Preferred experience with experimentation platforms, feature flags, metrics, data-informed product development, and legacy-system modernization.
- Preferred familiarity with responsible generative AI use in software development, including validation, security, privacy, and intellectual-property considerations.
Benefits
- Base pay is listed in the range of C$142,400–C$190,100, with potential target bonus and restricted stock units excluded from this benefit summary.
- Benefits may include medical, financial, and other benefits, including RRSP eligibility, PTO, and parental leave.
- The role includes participation in a sustainable on-call rotation.
- eBay is an equal opportunity employer and provides accommodation support for applicants with accessibility needs.
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