Senior Backend Engineer - MTS 1
About The Position
Join eBay’s Focused Categories team, where we’re at the forefront of transforming the eCommerce experience for millions of users worldwide. Our mission is to simplify, personalize, and modernize the shopping journey—building world-class buyer and seller experiences with creativity, innovation, and passion. We’re looking for a strong Senior Backend Engineer to help tackle complex, high-impact technical challenges using cutting-edge technologies, including Generative AI. In this role you'll oversee an entire functional area, be the engineering glue in partnering up with other teams, and have the opportunity to be a key leader on the team. At Focused Categories, we pride ourselves on our collaborative, transparent, and inclusive culture, where every voice is valued, and collective growth is celebrated.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in EE, CS or other related field.
- 6+ years of experience in working in Java, Kotlin (or open to picking it up), GraphQL, Spring/Springboot, REST APIs, messaging systems and/or other backend programming languages.
- Building data-driven applications (RDBMS, NoSQL, ElasticSearch)
- Delivers results in fast-paced environments (agile, TDD, CI/CD)
Nice To Haves
- Strong sense of ownership and interpersonal skills
- Self-driven with a strong ability to learn and adapt quickly
- Passion for exploring new and emerging technologies within your area of expertise.
- Commitment to continuous learning through internal and external knowledge-sharing.
- Interest in developing transferable skills and growing across fields.
- Ability to shine in a FE capacity in addition to BE is a big plus.
- Familiarity with shift left approach is a plus
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain clean, scalable, and testable code.
- Apply evidence-centered design to improve quality and delivery velocity.
- Break down projects into manageable tasks and ensure efficient execution.
- Provide technical guidance, conduct code reviews, and mentor engineers.
- Identify gaps across systems, propose solutions, and drive roadmap execution.
- Enhance E2E testing quality and accelerate feature delivery.
- Lead engineering support, releases, and on-call for a 24/7 platform.
- Own subsystems end-to-end—from design to deployment and observability.
- Influence architecture and technical decisions across teams.
- Design for flexibility to support evolving requirements.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver innovative, high-impact solutions.
Benefits
- target bonus
- restricted stock units
- 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
