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Adam Trachtenberg is the Senior Manager of Platform Evangelism at eBay, where he preaches the gospel of the eBay platform to developers and businessmen around the globe. Before eBay, Adam co-founded and served as vice president for development at two companies, Student.Com and TVGrid.Com. At both firms, he led the front- and middle-end web site design and development. Adam began using PHP in 1997, and is the author of Upgrading to PHP 5 and coauthor of PHP Cookbook, both published by O'Reilly Media. He lives in San Francisco, California, and has a B.A. and M.B.A. from Columbia University.

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I am hiring: Help drive eBay Web Services

November 14th, 2005 • Related • Filed Under

I am hiring a person to figure out how we should be exposing eBay using Web services and then creating the product proposals to implement the strategy. You also get to monitor everything else that’s going on at eBay and make sure it’s API-enabled in an platform savvy way.

If you’re interesting in participating in this thing popularly known as “Web 2.0,” then this is a killer opportunity. We serve up 2 billion (with a b) API calls a month, and we just made all calls free, so we’re talking serious scale and opportunity.

The ideal candidate has some strategy, programming, and product experience in her background. A little financial analysis wouldn’t hurt, either.

Here’s the official job description. That’s Requisition No. 7471BR at ebaycareers.com, in case the link doesn’t work. (Mac and Linux friends, please don’t flame me for the Win/IE bigoted job recruiting web site. I had to boot up my girlfriend’s Windows box to use the site when I applied, too.)

If you’re interested, e-mail me or apply directly and let the recruiter know you found out about the job through my blog. My work e-mail address is the first initial of my first name (a), followed by my entire last name (trachtenberg), at the ebay.com domain.

There Are 2 Responses So Far. »

  1. Comment by Jon Roig on 14 November 2005:

    Is it safe to assume the gig will be in California, not newly christened Phoenix location?

  2. Comment by Adam Trachtenberg on 14 November 2005:

    Yup. The job is in San Jose, CA. I believe we have a data center in Phoenix, and also some PayPal engineers, but none of the eBay business or product folks.

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