Ebay is the World's Online Marketplace. We provide a global online trading platform where practically anyone can trade practically anything. Counting 125 million users worldwide, eBay is one of the rare successful e-commerce companies, with an unprecedented record of profitable growth. To strengthen our Dutch eBay and Marktplaats team in Amsterdam we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer.
Work Location: Emmeloord (The Netherlands)
Shift: Day / on call
Primary Job Responsibilities
• Define, design, and implement complex, multi-tier distributed software applications.
• Segment and design system layers to support componentized and layered application development, including user interface, business functionality, and database access.
• Work with other engineers, managers, Product Management, QA, and Operations teams to develop innovative solutions that meet market needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, realistic implementation schedules, and adherence to development goals and principles.
• Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and rollout system changes.
• Must be able to independently design, code and test major features, as well as work jointly with other team members to deliver complex changes.
• Share release management duties on feature rollouts, share on-call responsibilities.
• Develop industry and product technical expertise.
Job Requirements
• University degree in computer sciences or a related field.
• 5+ years experience in requirements analysis, design, coding and unit testing of scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant applications in Web environments.
• Expertise required in object-oriented design methodology.
• Experience in an object oriented language such as Java, or C++.
• Strong preference for application development experience in PHP.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases (prefer MySQL or Oracle), HTTP/HTML/JS/CSS, and basic LINUX system administration.
• Creativity, high energy, dedicated, results oriented person.
• Fluent in English and Dutch (written and spoken).
Education: Bachelors Degree or Equivalent
Application: applications should be send to
knijmeijer@ebay.com