Senior Backend Engineer - SE3 (Live)
About The Position
You’ll be part of the team building eBay Live, eBay’s newest shopping experience and live shopping platform. Live shopping is a natural extension of eBay’s ethos —highlighting unique items, collectibles, and fashion while enabling real-time interaction between buyers and sellers. This is a relatively new trend in the US and Europe, growing quickly, and is already broadly established in APAC. We are looking to hire a passionate, collaborative and motivated Senior Backend Engineer - SE3, who will help us develop and evolve eBay Live to be a market leader in live shopping and become a key part of the global eBay platform. Join us to make an impact on one of the world’s largest e-commerce websites.
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)
Nice To Haves
- Innovative, team player, excellent communication and decision-making
- Strong sense of ownership and interpersonal skills to work effectively across teams
- Strong learning ability, self-driven
- Excited about new and innovative technologies within immediate field of expertise
- Attending knowledge sharing sessions, both within the company and externally
Responsibilities
- Develop features and services in highly scalable and reliable frontend and/or backend systems in a distributed system environment.
- Able to translate product and design documents into clean, high-quality, well-tested and maintainable production code autonomously
- Write test automations and practice continuous integration
- Conduct code review for immediate team
- Develop and maintain technical documentation to support software applications.
- Practices evidence-centered design making features testable, ensuring high quality and improving velocity in continuous delivery.
- Accountable for multiple subsystems within a larger domain, taking full responsibility for their entire life cycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, observability and monitoring.
- Propose and evaluate multiple design options, providing estimates for each.
- Structure and complete tasks independently, meeting deadlines and milestones.
- Effectively communicate assumptions and seek clarification from stakeholders, ensuring alignment and understanding across all domains.
- Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an "always-on" 24/7 site.
Benefits
- Competitive Compensation and Benefit
- RRSP eligibility
- various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
