Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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 Role & Team:

eBay's Buyer Experience engineering team is looking for an outstanding Staff Back-End Engineer to work with as we redefine the face of eBay. You’ll be working with a world class team of engineers, designers, product managers, and analysts to create great products that make a difference on one of the world’s most trafficked and loved websites. 

The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of building large scale applications, low latency API’s, data pipelines, and a high focus on capability oriented architecture. As the lead engineer you will be responsible for aspects of the software lifecycle : design, development, testing and experimentation

What You Will Accomplish:

• Translate requirements to software design and create clean, efficient, extensible, maintainable code.

• Responsible for subsytems  within a large domain, possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise. Taking full responsibility for the entire software life cycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, observability and monitoring.

• Serve as a key player in influencing and guiding others towards the right technical decisions.

• Identifying areas of features likely to change and integrating flexibility in the design for these areas improving engineering velocity.

• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners to develop innovative solutions that adhere to development goals and principles.

• Practices evidence-centered design making features testable, ensuring high quality and improving velocity in continuous delivery.

• Manage project features, break into sub-tasks, identify and resolve issues for efficient execution.

• Provide technical guidance,  code review for immediate team and other teams, coaching, and mentorship to individual team members.

• Identify gaps and issues across systems and functional areas, propose solutions, build the engineering roadmap, and drive resolution.

• Leads and improves E2E testing quality and increase delivery velocity across features.

• Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an "always-on" 24/7 site.

What You Will Bring:

• 6+ years of experience in working in Java/Kotlin, GraphQL, Spring/Springboot, REST APIs, messaging systems and/or or other backend programming languages.

• Building data-driven applications (RDBMS, NoSQL, ElasticSearch)

• Delivers results in fast-paced environments (agile, TDD, CI/CD)

• Familiarity with shift left approach is a plus

• Experience taking a lead role delivering sophisticated software systems

• Innovative, standout colleague, excellent communication and decision-making

• Strong sense of ownership and interpersonal skills to work effectively across teams

• Strong learning ability, determined, excited about new and innovative technologies within immediate field of expertise

• Bachelor's/Master’s degree in EE, CS or other related field.  

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