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EBay NYC is looking to hire an extraordinary Back end Software Engineer who can help build the future of personalized recommendations at eBay. You will be part of an agile integrated data science/engineering team, which is responsible for all merchandising and personalization algorithms for eBay marketplaces.

This is a unique opportunity to impact recommendation technology which rank eBay's 1+ billion active items in real-time. Ebay has a large semi-structured data and with millions of new inventory listed every single day. This makes traditional collaborative filtering algorithms difficult to use deftly. We apply state of the art AI/machine learning techniques on petabytes of data on thousands of Spark nodes. You will be working with other Software Engineers, Data Scientists and Data engineers in a team which includes building and deploying new AI/ML models in recommendation products which serve billions of requests at very low latency.

Additionally, EBay is building out a high performance cluster of GPUs to take on some state of the art Deep Learning problems. All this computing power is used to analyze over 30 Petabytes of data in order to gain better insight on how to best serve users.

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BS/MS in computer science/engineering from a leading university
Minimum 5+ years in software development
Strong backend engineering background, ideally using Java, C++ or Scala
Hands on experience with Spring/Akka or other frameworks is a plus
Hands on experience with Spark/Hadoop. Use of Cascading and Scalding is a plus.
Hands on experience with any streaming platforms like Storm, Kafka, Flink, Beam is a plus.

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