Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Posted:
6/24/2024, 5:00:00 PM

Location(s):
Ontario, Canada ⋅ Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

At eBay, we're more than a global ecommerce leader — we’re changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We’re committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts.

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.

At eBay, we're more than a global e-commerce leader — we’re changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We’re committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of e-commerce for enthusiasts.

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.

The Role

We are the Product, Item and Transactions Experience Team in eBay’s buyer org. The team owns the Item details pages, Product pages, Transaction flows - such as Auctions, Best offers flows, SEO optimized landing experiences, and all their services. In other words, this team is responsible for the core systems and applications of eBay. We drive billions of dollars in revenue via 100’s of millions of page views delivered daily across the globe, across all devices & browsers. Performance, Accuracy, real time systems (e.g., winning bid), Scalability and availability are paramount. Team and experience have great financial impact and customer impact and role is highly visible in the organization. In addition, being the core eBay experience, it must delight the diverse customer base across the world. We are a data driven agile team. Developers have liberty to come up with new feature ideas and work closely with product managers & user experience designers to make an impact on millions of users in the eBay community. We ship often, get immediate user feedback, and use experimentation to make decisions. Developers have end-to-end product ownership from design to implementation. Come, join us, and invent the next generation of eCommerce.

We are looking for a strong experienced backend engineer to work in the product development team, who is responsible for handling Buyer experience in eBay marketplace. As a self-motivated and enthusiastic member of our team, you will work with extremely hardworking peers in a fun environment. You will work in an agile environment with a focus on problem solving and engineering perfection.

 

Responsibilities:

  • As a self-motivated and enthusiastic member of our team, you will collaborate with extremely hard-working and proficient peers leading and designing web technologies.

  • You will work in an agile environment with a focus on problem solving and engineering precision.

  • As a technical lead you are expected to assess business problems, design optimal solutions and drive implementation to meet the business expectations.

  • You will 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.

  • Must be comfortable or have familiarity with all the layers of multi-tier applications to design complete solutions and maintain products.

  • As a senior engineer, you will guide junior engineers in your team and also across domain teams in building scalable, high speed, distributed applications and advocate for meeting the design and quality standards.

  • You will contribute to the development, testing, release, triage, bug fix, documentation, and rest of the cycles in product development and maintenance.

  • As a senior member of the team, you should bring in new ideas to adapt to technological developments and build POCs to demonstrate.

Job Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science plus 6+ years of experience or MS in Computer Science plus 5+ years of hands-on experience in building large-scale distributed systems.

  • Drive architecture discussions, produce well-documented design docs, participate in design and code reviews and contribute to coding and unit testing of fault-tolerant applications. Should own quality of the deliverables and contribute to automation.

  • Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures and algorithms.

  • ​​Expertise required in object-oriented design methodology and application development in Java/J2EE, including Spring framework and building Restful services

  • Experienced in non-functional skills like Security, Load and Performance Tests

  • Up to date knowledge in advancement in Web technologies, familiarity with GraphQL and drive innovation.

  • Propose and implement working prototypes for testing new ideas.

  • Possess leadership qualities to guide, influence, effectively communicate to drive engineering excellence within the team.

  • Ensure code quality and maintainability by evolving architecture and tech stack, refactoring, standards and improving build and test systems.

  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.

  • Estimate engineering effort, plan execution cycles, rollout system changes and support post production.

  • Partner effectively and influence peers, juniors, and seniors both within the organization and across eBay.

  • Share engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an always-on 24x7 site.

Benefits:

Benefits are an essential part of your total compensation for the work you do every day. Whether you’re single, in a growing family, or nearing retirement, eBay offers a variety of comprehensive and competitive benefit programs to meet your needs. Including maternal & paternal leave, paid sabbatical, and plans to help ensure your financial security today and in the years ahead because we know feeling financially secure during your working years and through retirement is important.

Here at eBay, we love creating opportunities for others by connecting people from widely diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and geographies. So, being diverse and inclusive isn’t just something we strive for, it is who we are, and part of what we do each and every single day. We want to ensure that as an employee, you feel eBay is a place where, no matter who you are, you feel safe, included, and that you have the opportunity to bring your unique self to work.. To learn about eBay’s Diversity & Inclusion click here: https://www.ebayinc.com/our-company/diversity-inclusion/

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eBay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at [email protected]. We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible. View our accessibility statement to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities.

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eBay

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Headquarter Location: San Jose, California, United States

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1995

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt

Industries: Auctions ⋅ E-Commerce ⋅ Internet ⋅ Marketplace ⋅ Retail