Backend software engineer

eBay•Toronto, ON

1d•CA$118,000 - CA$157,500•Remote

About The Position

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 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. eBay hires innovators who can push boundaries and change the world. As a self-motivated and enthusiastic member of our team, you will work with extremely hardworking peers in a fun environment. You will work in an agile environment with a focus on problem solving and engineering perfection. You will also: Build solutions using your strong background in distributed systems, and large scale database systems. Research, analyze, design, develop and test the solutions that are appropriate for the business and technology strategies. Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and project related team meetings. Work with other engineers, Architects, Product Management, and Operations teams to develop innovative solutions that meet business needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, realistic implementation schedules and consistency to development principles and product goals. Develop technical & domain expertise and apply to solving product challenges.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science plus 5+ years of experience or MS in Computer Science plus 4+ years of hands-on experience in building large-scale distributed systems.
Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures and algorithms.
Extensive hands-on experience and expertise in object-oriented design methodology and application development using Java/J2EE, Design Patterns, Spring MVC, SQL, Web services.
Good understanding of using various database systems (NoSQL and relational) at scale.

Nice To Haves

Skills: Java, Kotlin, GraphQL

Responsibilities

Build solutions using your strong background in distributed systems, and large scale database systems.
Research, analyze, design, develop and test the solutions that are appropriate for the business and technology strategies.
Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and project related team meetings.
Work with other engineers, Architects, Product Management, and Operations teams to develop innovative solutions that meet business needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, realistic implementation schedules and consistency to development principles and product goals.
Develop technical & domain expertise and apply to solving product challenges.
Define, design, and implement complex, multi-tier distributed software systems scaling beyond 1B requests/day and focused on improving user experience at eBay.
Drive architecture discussions, produce well-documented design docs, and participate in design and code reviews.
Ensure code quality and maintainability by evolving architecture and tech stack,, refactoring, standards and improving build and test systems.
Estimate engineering effort, plan execution cycles, and rollout system changes
Partner effectively and influence peers, juniors and seniors both within the organization and across eBay.
Share engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an always-on 24x7 site.