Senior Backend Software Engineer, eBay

• To be considered for this role, you must have significant commercial experience and a passion for working in:
• Java (8-17)
• Spring Boot
• Developing and using enterprise APIs
• And commercial experience with:
• SQL and NoSQL databases
• Containerisation
• Working in a continuous delivery environment
• Distributed and horizontally scalable systems
• Observability and monitoring tools
• Triaging production issues
• Performance tuning of JVM apps
• Not vital, but you’ll have the edge if you also have experience with:
• Agile: Test-Driven Development, collaboration and continuous delivery are your preferred engineering practices? We take the best bits of Lean, Scrum and Kanban too
• Architecture: In a large scale distributed web-application, you choose the right tool for the job at hand. You know when to break something out into a new component and the best way to wire it in, when to go with the simplest fit into the current system and when to rethink the existing approach
• 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. You like working on established technology stacks as well as quickly changing platforms

Desirable

• The team is a backend team building internal and external APIs, enterprise distributed systems and 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
• We release continuously to production, multiple times a day
• Consistently delivering against the product and engineering backlogs
• Architecting solutions that are secure, maintainable, extensible and can meet the demands of eBay’s scale
• Supporting our applications in production, including setting up & maintaining logging, monitoring and alerting
• Lead 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 team
• Continuously improving yourself and your team by suggesting and helping implement new Engineering tools, processes and practices
• Translating open product problem into a designed cross-component solution
• Breaking down the work into meaningful milestones and provisioning estimations
• Effectively communicating your and your team’s progress to your team members, your manager and wider eBay colleagues