Software Engineer - Backend

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. Join the Selling Growth and Insights team as a Backend Software Engineer to architect, design, and develop innovative, highly performant, and available web services and applications. You will contribute to eBay’s core selling experience, impacting over 25 million sellers globally and driving critical changes to one of the world's largest internet properties.

Must Have

• Design cross data center distributed, fault tolerant, highly available and performant web services and web applications.
• Own major projects and features from design phase to coding, testing, deployment and support.
• Estimate engineering effort; plan implementation, and rollout system changes.
• Identify project technical risks and make recommendations to mitigate them.
• 5+ years of experience designing & developing highly scalable distributed platforms and services.
• Expert and hands-on experiences in Java/J2EE, SOA Services, Design Patterns, OOA/D, Data Structures, XML, REST, JSON, and Internet Protocols.
• Proficiency in Java and/or Scala, strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, multithreading, synchronization, concurrent programming.
• Deep architectural understanding of system design and leading projects to completion.
• Solid knowledge and experiences of relational database and/or NoSQL data technologies (Mongo, Cassandra, Couchbase).
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to influence a cross-functional and cross geography team to deliver results.

Good to Have

• Prior Software engineering experience in the E-commerce industry.

Perks & Benefits

• Comprehensive and competitive benefit programs
• Maternal & paternal leave
• Paid sabbatical
• Plans to help ensure financial security

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 eBay:

Looking for a company that inspires passion, courage and creativity, where you can be on the team shaping the future of global commerce? Want to shape how millions of people buy, sell, connect, and share around the world? If you’re interested in joining a purpose driven community that is dedicated to crafting an ambitious and inclusive work environment, join eBay – a company you can be proud to be with.

If you are up to the challenges to build new and groundbreaking large scale internet web services and applications used by millions of business sellers around the globe every day and drive critical, meaningful & impactful changes to one of world's largest internet properties, then join us - Selling Growth and Insights team.

We are seeking talented, creative and passionate Backend Software Engineer (Level can be adjusted for candidate’s skills and experience) to architect, design and develop innovative, highly performant, available software in the form of web services and applications across various device form factors that help business sellers worldwide to grow their business on the largest global marketplace.

In this role, you will contribute at the very core of eBay’s selling experience, to deliver an engaging selling experience for more than 25 million sellers across 22 nations, who collectively generate billions of dollars in revenue quarterly. Performance, reliability, scalability and accuracy are of utmost importance as this area of work is at the absolute top of the funnel for all of eBay’s massive e-commerce ecosystem.

Intellect, curiosity, commitment, pride, respect, teamwork and good communication skills are what we’re looking for. We expect someone with solid computer science fundamentals, a strong drive for results, thrives on continuous innovation, dreams big, self-starts, learns fast, gets things done while having fun.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for a functional domain to design cross data centre distributed, fault tolerant, highly available and performant web services and web applications by leveraging software architecture design, OOA/D skills in addition to exceptional analytical and problem solving skills
• Own major projects and features from design phase to coding, testing, deployment and support
• Estimate engineering effort; plan implementation, and rollout system changes
• Identify project technical risks and make recommendations to mitigate them

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience designing & developing highly scalable distributed platforms and services and internet scale web applications
• Expert and hands-on experiences in Java/J2EE, SOA Services, Design Patterns, OOA/D , Data Structures, XML, REST, JSON, and Internet Protocols
• Proficiency in a programming language such as Java and /or Scala, strong foundation in data structures, algorithms and a strong understanding of multithreading, synchronization, concurrent programming
• Deep architectural understanding of system design and leading projects to completion
• Solid knowledge and experiences of relational database and / or noSQL data technologies (Mongo, Cassandra, Couchbase) or related toolset
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to influence a cross-functional and cross geography team to deliver results. Excellent time management skills and ability to work on concurrent assignments with different priorities
• Familiar with Agile/Scrum
• Prior Software engineering experience in the E-commerce industry is a plus
• BSCS, BSEE, MSEE or MSCS, PhD or similar technical degree

Benefits are an essential part of your total compensation for the work you do every day. Whether you’re single, in a growing family, or nearing retirement, eBay offers a variety of comprehensive and competitive benefit programs to meet your needs. Including maternal & paternal leave, paid sabbatical, and plans to help ensure your financial security today and in the years ahead because we know feeling financially secure during your working years and through retirement is important.

Here at eBay, we love creating opportunities for others by connecting people from widely diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and geographies. So, being diverse and inclusive isn’t just something we strive for, it is who we are, and part of what we do each and every single day. We want to ensure that as an employee, you feel eBay is a place where, no matter who you are, you feel safe, included, and that you have the opportunity to bring your unique self to work. To learn about eBay’s Diversity & Inclusion click here: https://www.ebayinc.com/company/diversity-inclusion/

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