Staff Backend Engineer

eBay • Toronto, ON

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About The Position

As a member of the GraphQL champions, you will interface directly with senior technology leaders and product owners to transform our current business and technology capabilities and streamline product integration process with Apollo GraphQL Federation. You are results-driven and help translate use cases straight into API contracts. You drive query performance cost analysis and security requirements for individual components, advocate for best practices, error handling and client integration options. You constantly learn and improve the design and process as you go, quickly prototype sample solutions in Node.js or Spring Boot. You will work within a community of architecture leaders, charged with establishing and evolving a unified architecture vision.

Requirements

• BS EE or CS degree; 10+ years related experience (or Masters and 8 + years related experience or PhD and 6 + years experience)
• Experience in object-oriented design methodology and large scale application development in one or more of the following - Java, Kotlin, C#, C++, JavaScript.
• Have experience in backend development and be fluent in Spring Boot, and relevant technologies a big plus.
• Experience with Federated GraphQL and Apollo Federation is a plus.
• Strong understanding of modern developer platform fundamentals including: Kubernetes for container orchestration and service deployment, Docker for containerization and environment management, CI/CD systems, service monitoring, and operational tooling, Service discovery, distributed tracing, and metrics instrumentation
• Experience working on developer experience (DevEx) or internal platform teams.
• Experienced developing in an Agile development environment and flexible, adaptable, and able to deliver large development projects in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Self-motivated and fast learner.
• Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Providing Leadership for Node.js/Spring Boot/DGS GraphQL Federation design and implementation
• Ownership of highly critical production system
• Enabling its high availability and throughput
• Collaboration with teams responsible for other foundational systems
• Supporting product teams in GraphQL learning and migration, championing GraphQL federation and schema design
• Advocating for GraphQL adoption and best practices

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior