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 Role :
We are the Buyer Growth team in the Buyer Experience Organization. Our team is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to work on one of eBay’s key growth strategies. The focused category initiative, where there is an opportunity to have an immediate impact on the growth of the marketplace while elevating the experience for buyers and sellers alike 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 visited and loved websites. You will design, define implement highly scalable, performant distributive systems and collaborate with architects, product management, engineering and operations teams to develop innovative solutions alignment to development goals and principles.
What you will accomplish :
- Independently lead complex technical initiatives within and beyond your team.
- Responsible for one or more large functional areas possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise.
- Change agency to set high bar and up level across teams on culture, process and engineering practices. Empower teams through effective collaboration, knowledge sharing, and tool building.
- Identifying areas of opportunity in the application for improving engineering velocity, reliability and scalability.
- Engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an "always-on" 24/7 site.
- Define, design, and implement highly scalable, resilient and performant distributed systems.
- Evangelize and communicate your design, methods, and results to a community of developers, analysts, and product managers.
What you will bring :
- A Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field with 8+ years of experience, or a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with 10+ years of experience with software design and development.
- Solid foundation in computer science with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, OOPs, and OOA/D.
- 6+ years of experience in software development using Java, SOAP, RESTful Web Services and Kotlin.
- Proven knowledge of front-end frameworks like React.js, Vue.js, Ember.js.
- Strong experience in developing data-driven applications using an industry standard RDBMS, NoSQL, and ElasticSearch.
- Strong experience in designing, and building highly scalable and available back-end systems and services for large web sites.
- Experience with agile development methodologies, Test Driven Development (TDD) and CI/CD.
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