Building NYC Tech
eBay NYC is a brand new office located in Chelsea, home to Hunch, Svpply and eBay Now. We're building a community interested in solving challenging technology problems and we’re passionate about helping the NYC tech community grow. Join us for our speaker series, eBay Tech Talks, and our no-strings-attached incubator program, Friends of eBay. We hope you'll stop by and say hello.
Upcoming Events
eBay NYC host regular tech talks and community events in our auditorium, including joint events with other NYC organizations. Have an event you’d like to co-host with us? Drop us a line.
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The Team
The eBay NYC team hail from the likes of Hunch, Svpply and eBay Now. We’re a group of developers and designers who came together to chew on big engineering and product challenges. And we’re hiring, so if you’d like to rub elbows, send us an email.
Work with usHunch
Hunch's ambitious mission is to build a "Taste Graph" of the entire web, connecting every person on the web with their affinity for anything, from books to electronic gadgets to fashion or vacation spots. Hunch is at the forefront of combining algorithmic machine learning with user-curated content, with the goal of providing better recommendations for everyone.
Beck Kloss
Janel Fung
Jeff Manian
Svpply
Svpply is a an innovative website that brings shoppers, tastemakers and merchants together onto a single site by offering a curated selection of stylish merchandise from across the Web. Users on Svpply.com recommend their style discoveries to other users, and display galleries of items they want or own.
eBay Now
eBay Now is a new mobile iOS app and local shopping service from eBay. eBay Now can deliver thousands of local products from hundreds of local retailers in San Francisco and parts of New York City, usually in about an hour!
Jobs
The New York tech scene is growing and eBay NYC is growing with it. We’re tackling complex data and product challenges across a variety of eBay properties and we’re looking for creative minds to conceptualize, deploy and scale solutions to hundreds of millions of people.
Working here gives you the best of both worlds: we provide a collaborative environment and interesting projects that will remind you of a nimble and innovative startup. But you’ll also be able to see your work applied to web and mobile platforms used by one of the largest digital communities in the world.
Of course, being a part of eBay also means you have incredible opportunity for career growth and development, all over the world. And in addition to offering a great work environment and competitive compensation, eBay provides a smorgasbord of benefits that will almost make you blush.
Sound good? Then join us. We are looking for amazing people to join us in our NYC office.
Engineering
Front end focused developer
We're looking for an experienced frontend developer to join our Feed team, where we're working on the new face of eBay. The eBay feed features a personalized assortment of products drawn from people’s unique interests. As a member of the Feed team you will be creating a beautiful new way to shop and discover online. Join us and work on something that mom'll see and love!
Job Description
• Work closely with an experienced product & design team to build beautiful, intuitive experiences in a high-visibility environment
• Handle service calls efficiently and manage data representation for template rendering
• Use best practices to write clean, maintainable code for the project, and elegant, usable experiences for users
• Own major projects and features from design phase to coding and testing
Requirements
• Strong knowledge of the ins-and-outs of HTML, CSS (LESS), JS development
• Must have a good knowledge of Java (Python is a plus)
• Ability to craft service & db calls in a clean, efficient way
• Familiarity with source control, especially git
• Self-motivated and an ability to get things
• Ability to come up with innovative solutions to problems, while also thoroughly considering edge cases and avoiding pitfalls
Algorithmic recommendations software engineer
We're looking for engineers well-versed in both data science and scalable distributed system engineering to join our team and build eBay’s next-generation recommendation engine. We use the latest technologies like Hadoop, Cassandra, Python, Java, and Scala to process terabytes of data every day to serve recommendations to hundreds of millions of users. If you're interested in cutting your teeth on ebay's firehose of data, send us an email!
Job Description
• Research, innovate, and develop statistical and machine learned models for prediction, personalization and recommendation
• Work on a small, fast-paced startup-like team with other self-directed engineers and researchers
• Own major projects and features individually from the research and design phase through coding and testing and into production
• Collaborate with database architects, other software engineers, QA and operations teams to deliver strategic improvements to the site
Requirements
• Strong background in math, statistics, machine learning, information retrieval, distributed systems and scalable data processing
• Familiarity with data science tools like Matlab/R for research and development purposes
• Strong programming background, ideally with languages like Python, Java and Scala for processing and analyzing large amounts of data
• Familiarity with lower-level languages like C for building optimized code for holding data sets in memory efficiently and implementing numerical methods efficiently
• Be resourceful and creative to incorporate new signals from user behavior and structured listing data
• Able to come up with innovative solutions to challenging problems that meet market needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability
• Versed in software engineering principles and supporting technologies such as git, Trello, and Jira.
Backend focused developer
We're looking for an experienced backend developer to join our Feed team, where we're working on the new face of eBay. The eBay feed features a personalized assortment of products drawn from people’s unique interests. As a member of the Feed team you will be creating a beautiful new way to shop and discover online. Join us and work on something that mom'll see and love.
Job Description
• Create robust scalable APIs that support web, mobile web and mobile applications
• Handle database representation, schema changes, and efficient queries for a large web project
• Use creativity combined with empirical experimentation to find the best eBay listings to put in people’s feed
• Use best practices to write code and setup processes that are easy to manage and maintain
• Collaborate with database architects, applied researchers, software engineers, QA and operations teams to deliver strategic improvements to the site
• Own major projects and features from design phase to coding and testing
Requirements
• Must be fluent in Java (Python is a plus)
• Deep understanding of using databases in a large web project, especially MySQL
• Experience with backend large-scale web systems
• Very comfortable using source control in a team project, especially git
• Self-motivated and an ability to get things done
• Ability to come up with innovative solutions to performance and quality challenges
Recommendation Engine Software Engineer
We're looking for someone to join our Recommendation Engine team, where you'll write cutting-edge high-performance software that powers all of eBay's recommendation placements and APIs, amounting to billions of requests daily. Come help develop the next generation of ecommerce at one of the world’s largest and most iconic shopping destinations. Email us if you’re interested!
Job Description
• Develop new features and exposing them via APIs
• Support A/B testing frameworks for understanding how shoppers react to new features
• Migrate older infrastructure to use the latest technologies that can save costs and improve performance and usability
• Collect useful data and that can improve user predictions and recommendations
• Collaborate with database architects, applied researchers, software engineers, QA and operations teams to deliver strategic site improvements
• Own major projects and features from design phase to coding and testing and on into production
Requirements
• Experience shipping large J2EE applications
• Familiarity with building customer facing web applications and APIs
• Experience with git a plus
• Self-directed and able to work in a fast-paced startup-like environment
• Able to come up with innovative solutions to challenging problems that meet market needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability
Quality
Primary Job Responsibilities:
We are seeking a highly motivated Software Engineer, who can contribute in the role of Quality Engineering. You will be working on the Merchandizing Team in delivering best in class experiences to our customers. This position requires the candidate to collaborate with folks in other disciplines, specifically Product Management and Product Development but also with User Experience Design, Analytics and Business. The candidate is expected to be a self-starter and team player, and a strong driver for results and continuous improvement. Responsibilities include own quality engineering for assigned product features. The strategy would first identify key aspects from a test perspective and then answer questions like how, when and where these key aspects will be applied (automation, scripts, manual).
- Define overall test strategy for assigned features.
- Estimate testing effort, prioritize projects, plan implementations and help rollout changes
- Define automation strategy and ensure testability
- Write best in class code to automate testing for your assigned feature areas
- Develop deep understanding of the product, engineering processes, tools and concepts in order to effectively narrow down defects. Ability to not only find a defect but also to narrow it down to the root cause.
- This position does require experience to do manual testing as well
- Participates in test design and test systems architecture discussions, proposes and discusses solutions to system and product changes that are related to domain area
- Document defects effectively and work with Development team to triage and troubleshoot defects
- Coordinate testing across multiple teams
- Participate in product and technology initiatives and recommend improvements
- Work with other QE engineers,product managers, and product developers to ensure that product specifications describe innovative solutions that meet market needs with respect to functionality,
performance, scalability, and reliability, and result in achievable implementation schedules and a product that meets agreed-upon quality standards
- Identify process, technology challenges and deficiencies that need to be addressed and drive those changes to successful adoption
- Identify project risks, dependencies and be able to provide alternatives yielding reduced risk
- List and describe the essential responsibilities of the position for which the individual is held accountable.
Job Requirements:
Looking for a customer-focused, resourceful, detail-oriented, adaptable, and flexible individual. The ideal candidate will have solid technical background and ability to provide technical leadership. Your background will include successful collaboration in cross-functional teams to deliver products of excellent quality which achieve the business goals. You must be a proactive and effective communicator, both verbally and in writing.
In addition, you must possess:
- Excellent knowledge of the software development lifecycle, including agile methodologies.
- Strong knowledge of Java, JS, CSS, HTML is a must
- Strong knowledge of end-to-end web application flows and tiers.
- Strong knowledge of Java application development and testing
- Experience with test automation tools such as Webdriver or Selenium/TestNG is a plus
- Proven ability to deliver projects on time with good quality.
- Demonstrates an exceptional customer focus, ensures that provided solutions accurately reflect the real needs and uses of the end users
- MSCS/MSEE highly desirable, BSCS or BSEE or other four-year degree in a relevant field is required
Product Managment
Product Manager: Algorithmic Merchandising
We're looking for experienced product managers to join the algorithmic merchandising team. The idea candidate will have experience creating data products such as search or recommender systems in an ecommerce environment. Come help develop the next generation of ecommerce at one of the world’s largest and most iconic shopping destinations. Email us if you’re interested!
Job Description
• Develop a vision and roadmap to create new merchandising algorithms and enhance existing recommendation systems
• Liaison between other Product Managers, Business Units and all other applicable stakeholders to ensure fluid integration of new and existing features
• Drive A/B testing and ad hoc analysis to understanding how shoppers react to new features
• Collaborate with database architects, applied researchers, software engineers, QA and operations teams to deliver strategic site improvements
• Clearly solicit feedback and communicate product benefits and changes to our user community.
• Own major projects and features from design phase to coding and testing and on into production
Requirements
• Master’s or PhD in technical discipline (Statistics, Computer Science, etc.)
• Experience building data products such as web search or recommender systems
• Familiarity with customer measurement through A/B testing and web log analysis
• Experience leading an agile development team a plus
• Self-directed and able to work in a fast-paced startup-like environment
Product Manager: Merchandising Metrics
We're looking for a data obsessed product manager to join the algorithmic merchandising team. The idea candidate will have a proven track record leading analysis teams evaluating data products such as search or recommender systems in an ecommerce environment. Come help develop the next generation of ecommerce at one of the world’s largest and most iconic shopping destinations. Email us if you’re interested!
Job Description
• Shepherd hundreds of A/B and multivariate tests to iterate on existing merchandising algorithms and evaluate new features
• Synthesize sources of quantitative and qualitative information to provide actionable recommendations to product team
• Develop a human judgment program to collect and analyze relevance evaluations
• Work with analytics and development team to create automated reporting for financial and behavioral outcomes
• Own major projects and features from design phase to coding and testing and on into production
Requirements
• Master’s or PhD in technical discipline (Statistics, Computer Science, etc.)
• Experience evaluating data products such as web search or recommender systems
• Expert in customer measurement through A/B testing, crowdsourcing, UER and web log analysis
• Self-directed and able to work in a fast-paced startup-like environment
Contact
The eBay NYC office is located at the corner of 6th Ave. and 19th St., in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. Drop by for one of our events or send us an email just to say hello.
625 6th ave, 3rd floor
New York, NY 10011
212.331.3890
info@ebaynyc.com