Staff Backend Engineer (eBay Live)

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.

You’ll be part of the team building eBay Live, eBay’s newest shopping experience and live shopping platform. Live shopping is a natural extension of eBay’s ethos —highlighting unique items, collectibles, and fashion while enabling real-time interaction between buyers and sellers. This is a relatively new trend in the US and Europe, growing quickly, and is already broadly established in APAC.
We are looking to hire a passionate, collaborative and motivated Staff Backend Engineer (MTS 2), who will help us develop and evolve eBay Live to be a market leader in live shopping and become a key part of the global eBay platform.
 

Join us to make an impact on one of the world’s largest e-commerce websites.

• Translate requirements to software design and create clean, efficient, extensible, maintainable code.
• Responsible for a large functional area possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise.
• Influencer across domain teams and guiding others towards the right technical decisions.
• Improves team productivity by identifying and evangelizing opportunities for productivity improvements.
• Identifying areas in the team applications likely to change and integrating flexibility in the design for these areas improving engineering velocity.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners to develop innovative solutions that adhere to development goals and principles.
• Practices evidence-centered design making features testable, ensuring high quality and improving velocity in continuous delivery.
• Manage project features, break into sub-tasks, identify and resolve issues for efficient execution.
• Provide technical guidance, code review for immediate team and other teams, contribute and review ADRs (Architecture Decison Records), coaching, and mentorship to individual team members within and outside teams.
• Identify gaps and issues across systems and functional areas, propose solutions, build the engineering roadmap, and drive resolution.
• Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an "always-on" 24/7 site.

• Excellent decision-making skills, thrive on dealing with ambiguities and changes.
• Strong sense of ownership and communication skills , embrace diverse ideas across the organization and align in a mutually agreed direction to get things done and move forward.
• Deeply care about growing others, great at mentoring and coaching, creating a large positive impact on organizational culture.
• Strong learning ability, self-driven.
• Attending knowledge sharing sessions, both within the company and externally.
• Learning transferable skills.
• Growth mindset and constantly looking for opportunities to learn.

• Exciting Product Mission with Impactful Technical Challenges - Dive into the heart of eCommerce innovation at Buyer Experiences, where we’re transforming eBay's shopping journey. By focusing on simplification, personalization, and modernization, we aim to build world-class buyer and seller experiences on eBay marketplaces with creativity and passion. Utilizing cutting-edge technologies like Generative AI, you'll tackle complex challenges that directly improve the shopping experience for millions of eBay users everyday.
• Vibrant Culture - At Buyer Experiences, our strength lies in our diversity, transparency, and collaborative spirit. Our open culture ensures every voice is valued and heard. We celebrate our successes together and approach each challenge as an opportunity for collective growth. Be a part of a dynamic community that not only values your expertise but is also committed to your personal and professional growth.
• Flexible Working - Enjoy exceptional support for remote work, allowing you to balance your professional and personal life seamlessly. 
• Competitive Compensation and Benefit - No matter where you are in the world, eBay supports your health and wellbeing with benefits as unique as you. Explore the benefits that help you be your best self.  Check out our benefits here:  https://www.ebaybenefits.com/index.html. 

• Bachelor's degree in EE, CS or other related field.
• 8+ years of experience with proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks, with deep mastery in one or two specific languages/framework
• Experience in proposing and influencing technical strategy & roadmap, balancing short/long term wins is preferable
• Designs and builds scalable, distributed and high-available systems, ensuring high-performant, responsive website and accessibility.
• Familiarity with shift left approach is a plus
• Experience taking a lead role delivering complex software systems

Additional Details

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employees will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

Remote roles are not eligible for U.S. visa sponsorship.

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. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at [email protected]. We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible. View our accessibility statement to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

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