Staff Backend Software Engineer

7 Hours ago • 8 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Staff/Sr. Backend Software Engineer at eBay, you will be instrumental in architecting, designing, and developing high-performance web services and applications. Your responsibilities will include contributing to the core selling experience for millions of sellers, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability across eBay's e-commerce ecosystem. You'll design cross-data center distributed, fault-tolerant, and highly available web services, own major projects from design to deployment, and estimate engineering efforts. You'll be working on a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers.
Must have:
  • 8+ years crafting scalable platforms and web applications.
  • Expertise in Java/J2EE, SOAP, SOA, REST, JSON, and Design Patterns.
  • Proficiency in Java and/or Scala, data structures, and algorithms.
  • Knowledge of relational databases (Oracle) and/or NoSQL technologies (Mongo, Cassandra).
  • Experience driving architecture discussions and design/code reviews.

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.

** Must Reside in Ontario **

About the team and role:

We the eBay Selling Engineering Team! We are seeking a Staff/Sr. Backend Software Engineer 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 on-board, handle inventory & listing and grow their business on the largest global marketplace.

What you will Accomplish:

  • In this role, you will contribute at the very core our 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 for all of eBay’s massive e-commerce ecosystem.

  • Responsibility for a functional domain to design cross data center distributed, fault tolerant, highly available and performing web services and applications by using software architecture design, OOA/D skills in addition to outstanding 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.

What you will bring:

  • Technical degree, plus 8+ years of experience crafting & developing highly scalable distributed platforms and services and internet scale web applications.

  • Expert and hands-on experiences in Java/J2EE, SOAP, 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 lead project to completion

  • Must have proven knowledge and experiences of relational database (oracle) and/or noSQL data technologies (Mongo, Cassandra, Couchbase), ElasticSearch and related toolset.

  • Experience driving architecture discussions, producing well-documented design docs, participating in design and code reviews and contributing to coding and unit testing of fault-tolerant applications, have familiarity with all the layers of multi-tier applications to design complete solutions and maintain products.

  • Experience in non-functional skills like Security, Load and Performance Tests, Accessibility, Site Speed optimization, Cross-browser /Cross-platform UX Design.

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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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