Senior Software Engineer - Backend Details

Senior Software Engineer - Backend

eBay Inc. - San Jose, CA

Employment Type : Full-Time

About eBay

Looking for a company that inspires passion, courage, and imagination, where you can be part of the team shaping the future of global commerce? Want to help millions of people buy, sell, connect, and share around the world? If you’re interested in joining a purpose-driven community that is dedicated to creating a results-oriented and inclusive work environment, join eBay – a company you can be proud to be a part of.

About the team

In eBay Stores, you will be an integral member of a growing organization that inspires passion, courage, and inventiveness - creating the future of global commerce and making an important, positive impact on millions of eBay sellers and shoppers around the world.

Technical expertise, curiosity, dedication, pride, respect, teamwork and good communication skills are what we’re looking for. We expect someone with proven computer science fundamentals, a strong drive for results, thrives on continuous innovation, dreams big, self-starts, learns fast, gets things done while having fun.

We are seeking a senior Java backend engineer with hands-on experience with design, development, test and releasing customer facing products.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with peers, Architects, Product Managers, Business Analysts, Quality Engineers, and Operations teams to develop innovative solutions that meet functional and non-functional standards and expectations.
• Be involved in development, testing, release, triage, bug fix, documentation and work in an Agile environment. Use of tools like JIRA, Git, CICD and other internal eBay tools on a regular basis to prioritize work and deliver features.
• Evaluate and define storage needs and make technology recommendations, define domain services and interface definitions and testing architecture.
• Design and build high-performing, reliable solutions for high-throughput, distributed systems using a variety of third-party and eBay internal libraries and frameworks
• Participate in technical design and code reviews and provide feedback to other engineers on the team.
• Scope features accurately and be responsible for on time delivery with high quality.

Requirements

• 4+ years of development experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field plus proven experience working on projects in a distributed environment.
• Detailed understanding in computer science fundamentals, data structures and algorithms and extensive experience in building highly available, scalable and robust applications.
• Excellent object oriented design and coding skills in Java or other OO languages, hands-on experience using unit/integration test frameworks to build fully automated software applications
• Good understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, data storage/access patterns, caching techniques, messaging systems and asynchronous workflows
• Experience with bug triaging and debugging techniques, logging and monitoring systems, application and query performance tuning
• Good understanding of web services and SOA related standards like REST/OAuth/JSON
• Ability to take-on small UI components (HTML, CSS, JS, NodeJS)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Benefits

Benefits are an essential part of your total compensation for the work you do every day. Whether you’re single, in a growing family, or nearing retirement, eBay offers a variety of comprehensive and competitive benefit programs to meet your needs. Including maternal & paternal leave, paid sabbatical, and plans to help ensure your financial security today and in the years ahead because we know feeling financially secure during your working years and through retirement is important.

Here at eBay, we love creating opportunities for others by connecting people from widely diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and geographies. So, being diverse and inclusive isn’t just something we strive for, it is who we are, and part of what we do each and every single day. We want to ensure that as an employee, you feel eBay is a place where, no matter who you are, you feel safe, included, and that you have the opportunity to bring your unique self to work. To learn about eBay’s Diversity & Inclusion click here: https://www.ebayinc.com/company/diversity-inclusion/

eBay Inc. 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 are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at talent@ebay.com. We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.

For more information see: EEO is the Law Poster and EEO is the Law Poster Supplement

This website uses cookies to enhance your experience. By continuing to browse the site, you agree to our use of cookies

View our privacy policy and accessibility info