Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) at eBay is a fun and challenging environment, where every day you will be finding solutions for eBay’s global scale and unique breadth of inventory.

Your work will directly improve the experience hundreds of millions of buyers and sellers, around the world as they interact with billions of listings,

eBay’s SEO teams are recognized as industry leaders, regularly piloting the latest initiatives in collaboration with the world’s largest search engines, and pioneering new techniques and ways of working. 

This role is crucial for ensuring that eBay’s most valuable pages are found by Web search engines, and appear in their results for the most appropriate queries. You’ll get to work on the fundamentals of SEO technology like robots.txt, sitemaps.xml and metadata as well as new and leading edge projects.

Your huge impact in this role

You will participate and contribute to major development applications covering all the data and experience lifecycle - from big data processing, through systems which process hundreds of millions of events daily, high availability site fasing services who  answer billions of requests in a very short SLA, all the way to the front end experience. This is your way to make a direct impact on eBay’s site and its customers..

In addition, you will be responsible for high quality development of applications that integrate with various other teams; High quality design and implementation knowledge; Documentation of code and systems; and Support of production applications.

What shall you bring to the table?

If you have experience with clean code, design patterns, code quality and open source technologies, we’ll be more than happy to see the following competencies as well:

• At least 10+ years’ experience in software development, in Java and/or Javascript

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science BSc or equivalent

• Experience in working with agile development methodologies

• Vast experience of designing large scale systems

• Vast experience in multi-threading development

• Experience with OO design and design patterns

• Experience with SQL as well as NoSQL databases in high scale environments

• Team player that can lead and support internal and external teams

• Partner effectively and influence peers, juniors and seniors both within the organization and across eBay

• Flexibility and passion to learn new domains

Well, the following competencies would be a great advantage:

• Master’s degree in computer science MSc or equivalent

• Experience in a tech lead or architect role

• Hands on with Big-Data.

• Experience with Spring framework.

• Experience with Kafka in microservices environment

• Experience with Neo4J

• Understanding of Machine Learning and Applied Research

eBay Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status.  If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at talent@ebay.com.  We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.

For more information see:  EEO is the Law Poster and EEO is the Law Poster Supplement

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