Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

5 Days Old

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. About the role: Every day, millions of users sell and ship their wares using eBay. Our team supports this diverse community by building shipping products around the globe, helping individual sellers and small businesses to meet the growing expectations of online buyers.We are a product-oriented team who move fast and stay curious. Join us to make an impact on one of the world's largest e-commerce websites. The team is a backend team building internal and external APIs, enterprise distributed systems, services. Our teams operate a DevOps philosophy. You, together with the rest of your team, support in production what you build. We value delivery to production, getting data/feedback from production and using this data to drive further improvements and features.ResponsibilitiesConsistently delivering against the product and engineering backlogs.Architecting solutions that are secure, maintainable, extensible and can meet the demands of eBay's scale, documenting in code along the waySupporting our applications in production, including setting up & maintaining logging, monitoring and alerting, being on-call, leading retrospectivesLead and mentor team on best engineering and architectural patterns and practices.Pair programming, reviewing pull request and giving constructive feedback.Contributing to the definition of features for services owned by your teamContinuously improving yourself, your team, the product by building AI agents, suggesting and helping implement new Engineering tools, processes, best practices, which also increase our velocity and improve testing and observability.Effectively communicating your and your team's progress to your team members, your manager and wider eBay colleagues.Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for an entire application or featuresPartners with EM, PM - collaborates to gather and understand requirements and expectations and provides estimations, options to mitigate risksLeading on large initiatives spanning multiple teams in the domainRequirementsExperience in software development, experience with software design and architecture, running large scale distributed systems in production environments.Significant commercial experience and a passion for working in: Java, Spring Boot, Developing and using enterprise APIs, Various testing methodologies, System design at high scaleCommercial experience with: SQL and NoSQL databases, Async processing, Cloud native applications, Working in a Continuous Delivery environment, Modern observability practicesNice to haveGrafanaPrometheusKotlin or a least the willingness to learn itBatch processing data pipelinesExperience in an eCommerce organisation, a shipping/logistics/exports organisationWhat you bringAgile: Test-Driven Development, collaboration and continuous delivery are your preferred engineering practices?Architecture: In a large scale distributed web-application, you choose the right tool for the job at hand.Experience: You are an experienced engineer, with several years working at a high level, confident working on a range of languages and frameworks and are happy to pick up new ones.Leadership: You have proven experience on delivering complex initiatives at scale by leading multiple teams from technical and process points of view.Maturity: You understand the necessity of the engineering vs business balance and are able to compromise efficiently.What we bringRewarding technical challenges - fixing eCommerce delivery requires solving difficult technical problems.Wonderful, bright, air-conditioned offices in Shoreditch, with bike racks (and shower!), right next to Liverpool St and Shoreditch High Street stations for super easy commuting.Great company culture - we have a culture of respect and high expectations of others.Hybrid working - really great support when working from home (we've got good video conferencing facilities).Competitive salary and generous benefits.Benefits25 days paid time off - increasing to 27 after two years, and an additional day each year up to a maximum of 30Sabbatical for 4 weeks after five years20 weeks paid leave for birth parents, 12 weeks leave for non-birth parents (fathers, adoptive parents, surrogacy)Private health insurance, dental and eye careLife and disability insuranceEmployee stock purchase plan (15% discount) and Restricted Stock Unit (RSUs) grantEmployer contributed pension up to 9%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. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Location:
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Job Type:
FullTime

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