Backend Software Engineer (SE3)
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 Team & Role:
In this role on the Selling Growth and Insights team, you will contribute at the very core of eBay’s selling experience, to deliver an engaging selling experience for more than 25 million sellers across 22 nations, who collectively generate billions of dollars in revenue quarterly. Performance, reliability, scalability and accuracy are of utmost importance as this area of work is at the absolute top of the funnel for all of eBay’s massive e-commerce ecosystem.
We are seeking versatile, creative and passionate Backend Software Engineer to architect, design and develop innovative, highly performant, available software in the form of web services and applications across various device form factors that help business sellers worldwide to grow their business on the largest global marketplace.
What you will accomplish:
Responsible for a functional domain to design cross data centre distributed, fault tolerant, highly available and performant web services and web applications by using software architecture design, OOA/D skills in addition to exceptional analytical and problem solving skills
Own major projects and features from design phase to coding, testing, deployment and support
Estimate engineering effort; plan implementation, and rollout system changes
Identify project technical risks and make recommendations to mitigate them
What you will bring:
5+ years of experience designing & developing highly scalable distributed platforms and services and internet scale web applications
BSCS, BSEE, MSEE or MSCS, PhD or similar technical degree
Expert and hands-on experiences in Java/J2EE, SOA Services, Design Patterns, OOA/D , Data Structures, XML, REST, JSON, and Internet Protocols
Proficiency in a programming language such as Java and /or Scala, strong foundation in data structures, algorithms and a strong understanding of multithreading, synchronization, concurrent programming
Deep architectural understanding of system design and leading projects to completion
Solid knowledge and experiences of relational database and / or noSQL data technologies (Mongo, Cassandra, Couchbase) or related toolset
Prior Software engineering experience in the E-commerce industry is a plus
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