Manager, Software Development 2 Job Listing at eBay in Seattle, WA

Computer Software, Financial Services

Why compromise? Finally a leadership opportunity that your engineering heart, your resume, your mentor, and your family can be excited about at the same time! Yes – a job that has it all … Ground floor opportunity, cutting edge technology, innovative algorithms, business critical charter, explosive growth, a cool & visible product that you can boast about, and live in one of the top-10 cities in USA.

Who are we?

We are the team building theShopping-Cartfor eBay. Yes, the whole enchilada … front-end UI using the latest browser based technologies powered by a distributed java-services based scalable backend. Our mission is to create an easy to use, fast, intuitive, innovative, organized, beautiful & personalized buyer experience on eBay. And trust us that it is far easier said than done when we are literally building the face of world’s largest e-commerce website, are serving millions of users for eBay every day, are critical enough to be a CEO driven initiative, and need to be nimble & innovative enough to re-imagine the buyer experience on eBay.

To add to the excitement, we are building a brand new team from scratch in our Seattle office – where you really can be amongst the first employees in a well-funded, proven, highly technical, highly visible, business critical idea.

What will you do?

In short, everything that development-leaders want to do and even a bit of what we sometimes don’t want to do.

* Attract, develop, inspire and manage great talent.
* Lead design and implementation of 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.
* Relentlessly manage priorities, address talent gaps and create an open, innovative culture that blends well with the daily execution.
* Be extremely good both in strategic & tactical aspects. Set clear direction & delegation to ensure strong execution of the plans.
* Be a thought leader through initiating bold changes, idea generation, clear understanding of ROI of various initiatives/projects.
* Build critical technology that has an immediate impact on millions of eBay users throughout the world.
* Deliver highly scalable server side java-based applications and/or beautiful client-side UI.
* Innovate and make your mark by developing the future of shopping cart targeting and personalization at eBay (think doing Freudian behavior analysis & borderline privacy intrusion using data analysis & machine learning techniques).
* The usual SDL activities – planning, prioritizing, experimenting, designing, coding, unit-testing, bug fixing, site rollout, documentation, arguing for fun ...
* Enjoy life to the fullest in Redmond/Seattle – there is a reason CNN ranked it #5 in the best places to live in America.

Job Function: Tech - Software Engineers