Software Engineer; Backend

About the role

Every day, millions of users sell and ship their wares using eBay. Our team supports this diverse community by building shipping products around the globe, helping individual sellers and small businesses to meet the growing expectations of online buyers. We are a product-oriented team who move fast and stay curious. Join us to make an impact on one of the world’s largest e-commerce websites.

The team is a backend team building internal and external APIs, enterprise distributed systems, services. Our teams operate a Dev Ops philosophy. You, together with the rest of your team, support in production what you build. We value delivery to production, getting data / feedback from production and using this data to drive further improvements and features. We release continuously to production, multiple times a day.

• Consistently delivering against the product and engineering backlogs.
• Architecting solutions that are secure, maintainable, extensible and can meet the demands of eBay’s scale, documenting in code along the way
• Supporting our applications in production, including setting up & maintaining logging, monitoring and alerting, being on-call, leading retrospectives
• Lead and mentor team on best engineering and architectural patterns and practices
• Pair programming, reviewing pull requests and giving constructive feedback
• Contributing to the definition of features for services owned by your team
• Continuously improving yourself, your team, the product by building AI agents, suggesting and helping implement new Engineering tools, processes, best practices, which also increase our velocity and improve testing and observability
• Effectively communicating your and your team’s progress to your team members, your manager and wider eBay colleagues
• Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for an entire application or features
• Partners with EM, PM - collaborates to gather and understand requirements and expectations and provides estimations, options to mitigate risks
• Leading on large initiatives spanning multiple teams in the domain

• To be considered for this role, you must have experience in software development, experience with software design and architecture, running large scale distributed systems in production environments.
• You must have significant commercial experience and a passion for working in :
• Java
• Spring Boot
• Developing and using enterprise APIs
• Various testing methodologies
• System design at high scale
• and commercial experience with :
• SQL and No
  
  SQL databases
• Async processing
• Cloud native applications
• Working in a Continuous Delivery environment
• Modern observability practices

• Not vital, but you’ll have the edge if you also have experience with :
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• Kotlin or a least the willingness to learn it
• Batch processing data pipelines
• or have worked in :
• an eCommerce organisation
• a shipping / logistics / exports organisation

• Agile
  :
  Test-Driven Development, collaboration and continuous delivery are your preferred engineering practices. We take the best bits of Lean, Scrum and Kanban too.
• Architecture
  :
  In a large scale distributed web-application, you choose the right tool for the job  know when to break something out into a new component and the best way to wire it in, when to go with the simplest fit into the current system and when to rethink the existing approach.
• Experience
  :
  You are an experienced engineer, with several years working at a high level, confident working on a range of languages and frameworks and are happy to pick up new ones. You like working on established technology stacks as well as quickly changing platforms.
• Leadership
  :
  You have proven experience on delivering complex initiatives at scale by leading multiple teams from technical and process points of view. You have influenced the technical direction of a team and have mentoring experience.
• Maturity
  :
  You understand the necessity of the engineering vs business balance and are able to compromise efficiently. You are not afraid of legacy systems and know how to deal with them and when. You plan just right according to a situation and not too much or too…