Portland, USA
36 days ago
Staff Back-End Engineer

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:

Owns a large functional area within the product, possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise.

Influence across domain teams and guiding others towards the right technical decisions.

Improve team productivity by identifying and evangelizing opportunities for productivity improvements

Identifying areas in the team applications likely to change and integrating flexibility in the design for these area improving engineering velocity.

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.

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

What You Will Bring:

Bachelors degree; 10 + years related experience (or Masters and 8 + years related experience or PhD and 6+ years experience)

8+ years of experience with proficiency in multiple programming languages(Java/Kotlin) and frameworks(Spring/Springboot), with deep mastery in one or two specific languages/frameworks

Experience in proposing and influencing technical strategy & roadmap, balancing short/long term wins is preferable

Designs and builds scalable, distributed and high-available systems, ensuring high-performant, responsive website and accessibility.

Familiarity with shift left approach is a plus

Experience taking a lead role delivering complex software systems

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