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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's Focus Categories engineering team is looking for an outstanding back end Engineer who is ready to work with modern web technologies and architectures in a forward-thinking organization that’s always pushing boundaries. The ideal candidate has experience in design, development, test, deployment, maintenance, and enhancement software solutions along with a firm understanding of Java, GraphQL/Rest APIs, Messaging Systems, RDBMS/NOSQL, Containers, software Infrastructure. 
 

What you will accomplish:

• Independently lead complex technical initiatives within and beyond your team.
• Drive technical direction and roadmap, leads across domain teams and guides others towards the right technical decisions.
• Responsible for one or more large functional areas within the product, possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise. Demonstrate strong systems mindset, go beyond immediate needs, proactively addressing performance, security, and future-proofing solutions.
• You will have complete, end-to-end ownership and responsibility of projects, driving them from conception to successful implementation.
• Change agency to set high bar and uplevel across teams on culture, process and engineering practices.
• Empower teams through effective collaboration, knowledge sharing, and tool building.

What you will bring:

• 10+ years of experience in building large scale, distributed web platforms/APIs with 6+ years as an architect/technical lead responsible for the end to end product scope across multiple domains.
• Solid knowledge in end to end system design from frontend to backend involving Java, GraphQL/Rest APIs, Messaging Systems, RDBMS/NOSQL, Containers, Infrastructure layer, with deep knowledge in several key components.
• Experience in GraphQL is preferable. Experiences in leading complex technical initiatives across teams independently of inception to successful delivery.
• Experience in creating and driving technical strategy and roadmap across multiple domains.
• Balanced trade-offs to ship scalable solutions supporting long-term goals.
• Successfully forged alignments with key stakeholders on significant architecture decisions and technical direction for ambiguous problem areas.
• Developed and drove adoption of technical practices that improved team velocity to deliver high-quality code across the organization.
• Deeply care about growing others, great at mentoring and coaching, creating a large positive impact on organizational culture.
• Strong sense of ownership and communication skills, embrace diverse ideas across organization and align on a mutually agreed direction to get things done and move forward.

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