Software Engineering Tech Lead at eBay

Job Description

We are expanding our development team to South Africa. Our Emerging Market Technology team is looking for a Tech Lead to lead a team of 10 software engineers to build our next generation B2C CRM systems.

This person will lead a team software developers in Cape Town and work closely with the Emerging Market tech teams in San Francisco and Shanghai China, business teams in Mexico City, Mexico and Cape Town, South Africa to support the growing vertical business.

We are eagerly looking for talented and passionate candidates to join us.

Responsibility

• Lead a team of up to 10 software engineers to architect, design, develop new features and provide support for our B2C CRM web-based systems.
• Work with Product Management team to define requirements and provide estimates for project level of efforts.
• Implement and track development timelines, and negotiate feature sets with product team and business.
• Provide hands-on contribution to project development work personally, and provide technical guidance to lead the team to deliver projects efficiently.
• Work with back end engineering teams based in San Francisco and Shanghai to identify system dependencies, required integration points, APIs, and coordinate development efforts.
• Enforce software engineering best practices and ensure high quality output from the team.
• Manage projects in true Agile fashion to enable continuous delivery.

Requirements - Must Have

• Design the infrastructure for load and scaling. This is a very open ended requirement but involves things such as:
• Deciding ahead of time when to push the design to be DB-resource intensive vs application-resource intensive.
• Fundamentals of parallel computing and server farms
• Principles of building failsafe systems for automatic recovery
• Comfortable with code reviews, and tracing existing code
• Have experience managing and administering Windows servers
• Windows Active Directory
• Experience with IIS (setting up SSL certificates and bindings, logging)
• General server infrastructure and proficiency with networking
• Experience managing and administering SQL Server
• Backup methodologies and logging methods
• Experience with troubleshooting and optimizing SQL performance (Disk I/O, expensive queries)
• Experience with managing large datasets in SQL Server
• Entity framework
• SQL server
• C# or VB .Net
• Web API (REST)
• WCF (SOAP)
• Windows Services
• Front-end
• Jquery
• Bootstrap
• ASP .NET MVC
• CSS & HTML5
• Good communication skills with can-do attribute
• Passion in new technologies and ability to learn new things quickly
• BS in Computer Science or related discipline with 7 years working experience
• 5+ year experience leading major projects using Agile/Scrum methodology
• Experience working with stakeholders and partners in multiple geographical locations

Requirements - Highly Desired

• 5+ years Java development experience
• 2 + years JavaScript development experiences
• Hands-on experience in web application, Maven and Git.
• Express, Angular.js, Node.js
• Experience with GitHub, JIRA
• Responsive design or SPA experience
• Experience with search technologies
• NoSQL database technologies (MongoDB, Redis).