Staff Backend Engineer

As a Staff Backend Engineer at eBay, you will be instrumental in shaping the future of ecommerce by translating requirements into robust software designs and delivering clean, efficient, and maintainable code. You will own subsystems within a large domain, covering the full software lifecycle from design to deployment and monitoring. This role involves influencing technical decisions, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and leading project features while ensuring high quality and continuous delivery.

Must Have

• 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 area 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.
• Leads project features, break into sub-tasks, identify and resolve issues for efficient execution.
• Provides technical guidance, code review for immediate team and other teams, coaching, and mentorship to individual team members.
• Identifies gaps and issues across systems and functional areas, propose solutions, build the engineering roadmap, and drive resolution.
• Leads and improves E2E testing quality and increase delivery velocity across features.
• Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an "always-on" 24/7 site.

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• Translate requirements to software design and create clean, efficient, extensible, maintainable code.
• Responsible for subsytems  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 area 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.
• Leads project features, break into sub-tasks, identify and resolve issues for efficient execution.
• Provides technical guidance,  code review for immediate team and other teams, coaching, and mentorship to individual team members.
• Identifies gaps and issues across systems and functional areas, propose solutions, build the engineering roadmap, and drive resolution.
• Leads and improves E2E testing quality and increase delivery velocity across features.
• Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an "always-on" 24/7 site.