Manager, Software Development

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Goldin, an eBay company, is the leading collectibles marketplace platform, with millions of customers globally. Our mission is to be the most trusted destination for collectors of trading cards, memorabilia, comics, video games and more.  

To accomplish this, we always put collectors first and hire the very best to join our team. Goldin would not be what it is today without our amazing employees — from consignment directors to customer support and everyone in between. We take great pride in hiring and developing top talent who can add to our culture and believe in our mission and vision. Goldin is an exciting opportunity to work in a growing market—and have a lot of fun doing it.

About the team and the role:

eBay's Buyer Experience engineering team is looking for a seasoned Engineering Manager to work with as we redefine the face of eBay. You’ll be working with a world class team of engineers, designers, product managers, and analysts to create great products that make a difference on one of the world’s most trafficked and loved websites. 

The ideal candidate will possess a good balance of technology and people management skills; leads with empathy; has a keen desire to deeply understand our products and services to push our technology forward with respect to functionality, performance, reliability, and scalability.

The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of building large scale applications, low latency API’s, data pipelines, and a high focus on capability oriented architecture. As the lead engineer you will supervise aspects of the software lifecycle : design, development, testing and experimentation.

What You will accomplish:

• Lead a talented full-stack team of backend, and frontend engineers

• Mentor and guide the development of your team members in a tailored empathetic manner suited for each individual

• Build collaborative and inclusive teams

• Own your teams deliverables and ship high quality, maintainable software

• Build and maintain a healthy prioritized backlog in alignment with the team goals

• Collaborate with product managers, business units, analytics to brainstorm and build the next generation of our product and scale it.

• Layout technical vision for the team

• Push the bar to solve complex technical challenges of scale and performance

• Maintain a balance between short term and long term goals while shipping high impact products quickly

• Partner effectively and influence peers and senior leadership both within the organization and across eBay

• Drive the adoption of cloud services, recommending the best AWS tools and services for each application's requirements

• Ensure security best practices are coordinated into our development and deployment processes

• Stay ascertain of new AWS services, Python development, and architectural standard methodologies

• AWS features and technologies, integrating them into our solutions to improve performance and scalability

• Lead by example, giving high-quality code reviews, and encouraging a culture of excellence and continuous improvement

What You will bring:

• Bachelor’s degree and 12+ years experience (or) a MS in Computer Science and 10+ years of software design experience

• 3+ years of experience managing  a small to medium-sized team of developers

• Experience leading or managing a small to medium-sized team of developers

• Experience in building large scale distributed systems with high availability, scalability and resilience

• Experience applying machine learning in a user facing environment like personalization, ranking, or recommendations is a plus

• Proven results-oriented person with a focus on delivery in a high-velocity environment

• Great communication skills. Needs to articulate thoughts and proposals clearly

• Experienced working in Agile teams

• Ability to grasp new areas; and adapt to changes

• Familiarity with eCommerce is a plus

• Must have expertise in Python with a deep knowledge of its ecosystems and frameworks. Knowledge in Java is a plus

• Strong experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Cognito, EKS, Open Search, DynamoDB, Lambda, Kinesis, and CloudFormation

• Proficient in microservices, event driven architecture and container orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker)

• Design & Implemented CI/CD pipelines using AWS native services(CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodeCommit)

• Knowledge of networking, security, and database design

• Developed and drove adoption of technical patterns that significantly improved engineering practices across the organization

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