eBay · 1 day ago
Senior MTS Backend Engineer - eBay Live
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$210K/yr - $281K/yr
10+ years expeBay is a global ecommerce leader committed to transforming the way the world shops and sells. The Senior MTS Backend Engineer role involves leading complex technical initiatives, driving technical direction, and taking ownership of significant projects within the eBay Live platform.
AuctionsE-CommerceInternetMarketplaceRetail
Responsibilities
Independently lead complex technical initiatives within and beyond your team
Drive technical direction and roadmap, leads across domain teams and guides others towards the right technical decisions
Authors ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) that serves as blueprint or a proposed solution for a given technical problem and influences overall tech strategy
Responsible for one or more large functional areas possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise
Demonstrate strong systems mindset, go beyond immediate needs, proactively addressing performance, security, and future-proofing solutions
Take ownership of complex projects, driving them from conception to successful implementation
Change agency to set high bar and uplevel across teams on culture, process and engineering practices. Empower teams through effective collaboration, knowledge sharing, and tool building
Identifying areas in the company platforms likely to change and integrating flexibility in the design for these area improving engineering velocity
Long term technology vision to continually modernize and keep systems relevant in constantly changing environments
Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an 'always-on' 24/7 site
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in EE, CS or other related field
10+ years of experience in building large scale, distributed web platforms/APIs with 5+ years as an architect/technical lead responsible for the end to end product scope across multiple domains
Experience in creating and driving technical strategy and roadmap across multiple domains. Balanced trade-offs to ship scalable solutions supporting long-term goals
Successfully forge alignments with key stakeholders on significant architecture decisions and technical direction for ambiguous problem areas through Architectural Decision Records (ADR)
Developed and drove adoption of technical practices that improved team velocity to deliver high-quality code across the organization
Solid knowledge in end to end system design involving GraphQL/Rest APIs, Messaging Systems, RDBMS/NOSQL, Containers, Infrastructure layer, with deep knowledge in several key components
Experiences in leading complex technical initiatives across teams independently from inception to successful delivery
Preferred
Experience in GraphQL is preferable
Benefits
Target bonus
Restricted stock units
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
401(k) eligibility
Various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave
Company
eBay
eBay is a global online marketplace enabling users to buy, sell, and auction new or used items across various categories.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.16BKey Investors
Benchmark
2022-11-07Post Ipo Debt· $1.15B
1998-09-24IPO
1998-01-01Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Jamie Iannone
CEO
Alex Kazim
VP, GM eBay Services
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