Senior Software Engineer (Backend) MTS1

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.

Responsibilities (What You Will Do)

1. Translate requirements to software design and create clean, efficient, extensible, maintainable code.
2. Own a large functional area within the product, possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise.
3. Serve as a key player in influencing and guiding others towards the right technical decisions.
4. Identifying areas of features likely to change and integrating flexibility in the design for these areas improving engineering velocity.
5. 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.
6. Manage project features, break into sub-tasks, identify and resolve issues for efficient execution. Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to individual team members.
7. 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.
8. Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an "always-on" 24/7 site.

Minimum Qualifications (Who You Are)

1. 5 + years related experience (or Masters and 4 + years related experience or PhD and 1 + years experience)
2. 4+ years of experience in working in Java, GraphQL, Spring/Springboot, REST APIs, messaging systems and/or other backend programming languages.
3. Strong CS foundation (data structures, algorithms, OOPs, OOA/D)
4. Building data-driven applications (RDBMS, NoSQL, ElasticSearch)
5. Designs and builds scalable, distributed, available back-end systems
6. Experience designing and developing microservices
7. Delivers results in fast-paced environments (agile, TDD, CI/CD)
8. Innovative, team player, excellent communication and decision-making
9. Passionate about new and innovative technologies within immediate field of expertise
10. BS EE or CS degree.
11. Ideally located in the Bay Area, CA or near San Jose, CA.