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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.

About the team and the role:

eBay is looking to hire a passionate, collaborative and motivated Backend Software Engineer to work in eBay Live, while this type of real-time platform has gained broad acceptance in APAC, the adoption of live shopping in the Americas and EMEA is still relatively low, and we’re working to be the platform of choice for this emerging trend.
 

You can read about some of the cool projects the team is working on:

• eBay Launches Live Shopping for Collectibles

What you will accomplish:

You will be a member of our Core AI Engineering team, building eBay Live.

• Lead the design and development of sophisticated services for the eBay Live platform, focusing on delivering exceptional user experiences and robust functionality.

• Collaborate closely with peers, Architects, Product Managers, Business Analysts, Quality Engineers, and Operations teams to develop innovative solutions that meet functional and non-functional standards and expectations.

• Be involved in development, testing, release, triage, bug fix, documentation, and work in an Agile environment. Use of tools like JIRA, Git, CICD and other internal eBay tools on a regular basis to organize work and deliver features.

• Participate in technical design and code reviews and provide feedback to other engineers on the team.

• Deliver highly performing, low latency, robust code with high test case coverage, continuous integration and production monitoring

• Triage and debug production issues

• Mentor junior team members

What you will bring:

• BS/BA in Computer Science or related field or 10 years of relevant experience

• Strong experience with modern programming languages, in particular Java.

• Experience in building large, reliable, scalable distributed systems

• Experience with building event-driven applications

• Experience with designing and building RESTful APIs

• Excellent communication and lead skills to be able work and collaborate with other teams involved in our projects.

• Prove experience in architecting backend systems

• Deep understanding of design patterns, and experience working in a layered architecture

• Knowledge of core CS concepts such as common data structures and algorithms

• Experience with modern DevOps principles and continuous delivery

• Work closely w/ colleagues and customers in different functional groups and remote offices

• Past experience with Live Commerce or Live Stream is big PLUS. 

• Hands on experience with GraphQL is a big plus

• Experience on web socket is a big plus

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