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

• Comprehensive and competitive health and wellness program designed to meet your unique needs.
• We strive to provide programs that help support both mind and body, including quality healthcare insurance, wellness programs and preventative care.
• Stock Purchase Plans
• Retirement Savings and Pension Plans
• Stock Awards
• Life Insurance and Disability Benefits
• Credit Union Memberships
• Balancing work & life - eBay believes in providing you with the opportunity to be your best self in your professional and personal life. In addition to supporting flexible workstyles including hybrid and remote, eBay offers 4 weeks of paid sabbatical time for every 5 years of service
• Giving back to our community - We provide our employees around the globe with opportunities to have a positive impact on their local communities. Through the eBay Foundation, our company matches donations to eligible nonprofits up to $10,000 per employee per year. And our employee-led volunteer groups organize local giving and volunteering activities throughout the world

Founded in 1995 as an online auction platform primarily catering to collectibles, eBay quickly emerged as a pioneer in connecting buyers and sellers in the digital realm. This early success propelled eBay to become to globally recognized leader it is today.