Staff Backend Engineer (eBay 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 Staff Backend Engineer (MTS 2), 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
- Excellent decision-making skills, thrive on dealing with ambiguities and changes.
- Strong sense of ownership and communication skills, embrace diverse ideas across the organization and align in a mutually agreed direction to get things done and move forward.
- Deeply care about growing others, great at mentoring and coaching, creating a large positive impact on organizational culture.
- Strong learning ability, self-driven.
- Attending knowledge sharing sessions, both within the company and externally.
- Learning transferable skills.
- Growth mindset and constantly looking for opportunities to learn.
- Bachelor's degree in EE, CS or other related field.
- 8+ years of experience with proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks, with deep mastery in one or two specific languages/framework
- Designs and builds scalable, distributed and high-available systems, ensuring high-performant, responsive website and accessibility.
- Experience taking a lead role delivering complex software systems
Nice To Haves
- Experience in proposing and influencing technical strategy & roadmap, balancing short/long term wins is preferable
- Familiarity with shift left approach is a plus
Responsibilities
- Translate requirements to software design and create clean, efficient, extensible, maintainable code.
- Responsible for a large functional area possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise.
- Influencer across domain teams and guiding others towards the right technical decisions.
- Improves team productivity by identifying and evangelizing opportunities for productivity improvements.
- Identifying areas in the team applications likely to change and integrating flexibility in the design for these areas 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.
- Manage project features, break into sub-tasks, identify and resolve issues for efficient execution.
- Provide technical guidance, code review for immediate team and other teams, contribute and review ADRs (Architecture Decison Records), coaching, and mentorship to individual team members within and outside teams.
- Identify gaps and issues across systems and functional areas, propose solutions, build the engineering roadmap, and drive resolution.
- Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an "always-on" 24/7 site.
Benefits
- Competitive Compensation and Benefit
- 401(k) eligibility
- various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave
- medical
- financial
- other benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
