Senior Staff Frontend Engineer (d/f/m)
eBay · Kleinmachnow, Germany · 16d ago
At eBay, we're more than a global ecommerce leader — we’re changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We’re committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts.
Our customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work — every day. We're in this together, sustaining the future of our customers, our company, and our planet.
Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.
About the team and the role:
We are in the process of expanding our engineering hub in Germany. Several new engineering positions are being opened within Shipping Domain in our Dreilinden office located in the greater Berlin area. We are looking for a Senior Staff Frontend Engineer who will be part of the Global Shipping team and who can help us build exciting products at eBay.
Every day, millions of users sell and ship their wares using eBay. Our team supports this diverse community by building shipping products around the globe, helping individual sellers and small businesses to meet the growing expectations of online buyers. We are a product-oriented team, we move fast, and stay curious.
You will be working on new experiences for millions of customers. You will lead the development of modern web applications (React / TypeScript) by developing system designs, helping define the technical roadmap, guiding the team on all frontend aspects, and implementing code. You will report to a Sr. Manager of Engineering, as well as work closely with the wider engineering team of the new engineering hub.
It’s a unique opportunity to be part of a collaborative, transparent and highly technical team culture.
eBay requires employees to be present in the Dreilinden office three days per week.
What you will accomplish:
Translate product problems into designed cross-component frontend solutions that balance user experience, performance, and maintainability; author design documents and technical specifications for key projects.
Lead and own frontend architectural decisions, drive system-level innovation, and influence technical direction beyond your immediate team.
Define and uphold frontend engineering standards, coding guidelines, and technical culture; contribute meaningfully to the roadmap by surfacing investment opportunities, flagging risks, and shaping sequencing decisions.
Mentor engineers across levels through design reviews, pairing, and structured feedback to raise the team's overall frontend capability.
Build accessible, performant, and maintainable web applications in React and TypeScript; write clean, efficient, and well-documented code and conduct code reviews to ensure quality and consistency.
Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to break down work into milestones with accurate estimations, deliver features, and maintain tests while resolving performance bottlenecks, rendering issues, and browser compatibility problems.
What you will bring:
Bachelor's in CS or related field with extensive experience in designing and developing highly scalable web applications in Agile/Scrum environments with modern CI/CD practices.
Deep expertise in React and TypeScript with a strong command of web fundamentals: browser rendering, network performance, accessibility, and modern JavaScript (ES2020+).
Experience building and maintaining design systems or component libraries at scale; proficiency writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests (e.g., Jest, Playwright, Cypress).
Experience collaborating with backend teams on RESTful or GraphQL API contracts and integrating with microservices architectures.
Experience influencing technical direction across teams, mentoring engineers, and raising the overall frontend capability of an engineering organization.
Familiarity with frontend observability tooling (e.g., web vitals, error tracking, real-user monitoring) is a plus.
Experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) is a strong plus
Additional Details
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