SEO expert

The eBay Classifieds Group is always looking for high-energy, self-motivated, committed individuals who are passionate about their work. Our team members enjoy a challenging environment that places the highest value on innovation, accountability and playing to win. eBay Classifieds Group combines the entrepreneurial energy of a start-up with the resources and trusted leadership of a major corporation. Our culture is based on open and honest communication, respect for other points of view and a spirit of fun that keeps egos in check. eBay Classifieds Group offers empowering roles worldwide with a focus on creativity, competitive pay and benefits, professional growth, and performance-focused rewards.

We're looking for a technical SEO expert with deep web development experience to join our global growth team based in Amsterdam.

As the ideal candidate; you will be comfortable working in a fast-paced agile environment, you will have a proven track record and significant experience in delivering SEO improvements that have resulted in meaningful increases in organic SEO performance a global brand.

What will you get to do?

• Work closely with engineers and product managers on complex site re architecture and migrations.

• Work with QA and automation teams to ensure SEO QA is built into releases

• Keep on top of troubleshooting and fixing site issues, and continually improve site crawlability, indexation, and performance.

About you

• You will be a good communicator, self-driven and enjoy working closely with the rest of the global growth team.

• Significant Technical SEO experience with demonstrable achievements of results.

• Bring prior experience of working on complex, multiple websites, complex migrations and domain restructures.

• You'll have experience in executing large scale technical SEO projects.

• Strong demonstrable understanding of front-end technologies - including the ability to confidently hand-code valid semantic HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

• Previous experience with React and understanding of progressive web apps.

• An understanding of structured and linked data, with experience working with Schema.org and structured data syntaxes such as Microdata, RDFa-Lite or JSON-LD

• Proficient in crawl management Log file analysis, Screaming Frog, Custom crawlers.You're confident using the most popular SEO tools: webmaster consoles, keyword tracking, and backlink discovery tools. You know how to make some basic requests from an API and build basic SEO tools.

Desired skills

• You're skilled with Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.More importantly, you'll need to have a head for numbers, and show you can easily extract key, actionable insights from the data. Comfortable working on large datasets and proficiency using advanced Excel functionalities. Ideally, you'll have some knowledge of SQL.

• You've a proven record of assuming ownership and moving quickly to implement ideas.

As well as experience in the above essential areas other desirable areas of expertise are

• CMS integration

• Content and link acquisition

• Prior experience working with classified sites

What can you expact from the company:

• A collaborative, informal, international and playful work environment

• Self-organised agile/lean teams consisting of QA, product managers, UX, analysts, front-end, mobile and back-end developers

• Managers and teammates who are invested in your growth as a technologist and as a person

• Work with modern front-end technologies such as Node.js, React & PWA's - but also get to know about other technologies like Scala, Elasticsearch, Swift and Play.

• Access to tools and resources to do your job (best-in-class laptop, IDEs, Safari Online subscription, conferences and meetups, all the coffee and soda you can drink, and much more)

• Continuous Deployment through multiple environments to get rapid feedback about your work

• Work on one of the most beloved brands in the Netherlands