Staff Backend 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 team and the role:

We are eBay's Seller Experience Team! We are responsible for designing, developing, and managing the tools, platforms, and programs that support sellers throughout their entire lifecycle on eBay.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us and help build robust and scalable software, help improve our code services and system architecture, participate in brainstorming sessions and supply ideas to our technology, algorithms and products, and work with the product and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and deliver results.

We want the highest levels of technical talent and programming skills, as well as a keen desire to deeply understand our products and services to push our technology forward. You'll work alongside the most creative engineering talent in the industry.

What you will accomplish:

• Leading architecture development and solving problems that span domains and systems
• Implementing tests and responsible software development practices.
• Getting into the details, investigating issues, writing code, performing code reviews, and prototyping new solutions
• Providing expert feedback for code quality, performance, scalability, system architecture, and engineering methodologies
• Modernizing and advocating for continuous improvement of the technology stack when applicable by inspiring change through the organization
• Comfortable with rapid development cycles, tight schedules, close integration with product management
• Experience with modern devops principles and continuous delivery
• Strong work ethic - someone who takes great pride in professionalism, responsibility, and being proactive
• Shepherding multiple teams and collaborating effectively with product, design and engineering teams across multiple domains and multiple geographies
• Growing your team through coaching, mentoring

What you will bring:

• 10+ years of experience developing, building large-scale distributed systems using industry standard patterns, with deep experience in Java.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, or Bachelor's degree with equivalent experience
• Extensive hands-on experience and expertise in object-oriented design methodology and application development using Java/J2EE, GraphQL, Design Patterns, Spring MVC, SQL, Web services
• Consistent track record in architecting common libraries and patterns for use in large scale applications with 50+ engineers
• Advanced knowledge of model-view-controller (MVC) and object oriented design paradigms.
• Experience with patterns for achieving feature modularity
• Experience in integration with backend APIs (REST/GraphQL), network debugging (e.g. Charles)
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Experience working with services teams to design optimal service contracts

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:
$132,000 - $222,100

Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employees will be in an "at-will position" and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

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