Software Engineer - Backend

2 Hours ago • 4 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

The job involves being a senior backend engineer within the Product, Item, and Transactions Experience Team. The team manages core systems and applications, impacting billions of dollars in revenue. Responsibilities include translating requirements to software design, creating efficient code, and taking responsibility for the entire software life cycle. The role also involves collaborating with cross-functional partners, leading engineering support, and providing technical guidance. The team operates in an agile environment, emphasizing problem-solving and engineering excellence.
Must have:
  • 4+ years experience in Java, GraphQL, or other backend languages
  • Strong CS foundation (data structures, algorithms, OOPs, OOA/D)
  • Experience building data-driven applications (RDBMS, NoSQL, ElasticSearch)
  • Experience designing and developing microservices
  • Delivers results in fast-paced environments (agile, TDD, CI/CD)
Good to have:
  • Familiarity with shift left approach
  • Innovative, team player, excellent communication and decision-making
  • Strong sense of ownership and interpersonal skills
Perks:
  • Comprehensive and competitive benefit programs
  • Maternal & paternal leave
  • Paid sabbatical

Job Details

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.

Looking for a company that inspires passion, courage, and imagination, where you can be part of 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 creating an ambitious and inclusive workplace, join eBay – a company you can be proud to be a part of.

The Role

We are the Product, Item, and Transactions Experience Team within eBay’s Buyer Experience organization. Our team is responsible for the Item Details Pages, Product Pages, Transaction Flows (such as Auctions and Best Offers), and all associated services. Essentially, we manage some of the core systems and applications of eBay. We contribute billions of dollars in revenue through hundreds of millions of page views delivered daily worldwide, across all devices and browsers. Performance, accuracy, scalability, and availability are crucial to our operations. Our team and expertise have a major impact on financial results and customer satisfaction, making our role highly visible within the organization. As the core of the eBay experience, we strive to delight our diverse global customer base. We operate as a data-driven, agile team where developers have the freedom to propose new feature ideas and collaborate closely with product managers and user experience designers to impact millions of users in the eBay community. We release frequently, gather immediate user feedback, and rely on experimentation to guide our decisions. Developers enjoy end-to-end product ownership, from design to implementation. Join us and help invent the next generation of eCommerce.

We are seeking a talented senior backend engineer to join our product development team. As a self-motivated and enthusiastic team member, you will collaborate with dedicated and skilled colleagues in a dynamic and enjoyable setting. You will operate in an agile environment, emphasizing problem-solving and engineering excellence.

 

Responsibilities:

  • Translate requirements to software design and create clean, efficient, extensible, maintainable code.

  • Responsible for subsystems within a large domain, possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise. Taking full responsibility for the entire software life cycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, observability and monitoring.

  • Serve as a key player in influencing and guiding others towards the right technical decisions.

  • Identifying areas of features likely to change and integrating flexibility in the design for these areas improving engineering velocity.

  • 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.

  • Manage project features, break into sub-tasks, identify and resolve issues for efficient execution.

  • Provide technical guidance,  code review for immediate team and other teams, coaching, and mentorship to individual team members.

  • 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 increases delivery velocity across features.

  • Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities on a rotation basis for an "always-on" 24/7 site.

Job Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in EE, CS or other related field.

  • 4+ years of experience in working in Java, GraphQL, Spring/Springboot, REST APIs, messaging systems and/or other backend programming languages.

  • Strong CS foundation (data structures, algorithms, OOPs, OOA/D)

  • Building data-driven applications (RDBMS, NoSQL, ElasticSearch).

  • Designs and builds scalable, distributed, available back-end systems.

  • Experience designing and developing microservices.

  • Delivers results in fast-paced environments (agile, TDD, CI/CD).

  • Familiarity with shift left approach is a plus.

  • Innovative, team player, excellent communication and decision-making.

  • Strong sense of ownership and interpersonal skills to work effectively across teams.

Benefits:

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/our-company/diversity-inclusion/

Please see the Talent Privacy Notice for information regarding how eBay handles your personal data collected when you use the eBay Careers website or apply for a job with eBay.

eBay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at talent@ebay.com. We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible. View our accessibility statement to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities.

 

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We Empower People and Create Economic OpportunityeBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) is a global commerce leader that connects millions of buyers and sellers around the world. We exist to enable economic opportunity for individuals, entrepreneurs, businesses and organizations of all sizes.

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