eBay · 22 hours ago
Senior MTS Backend Engineer - eBay Live
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$166K/yr - $222K/yr
6+ years expeBay is a global ecommerce leader that is changing the way the world shops and sells. The Senior MTS Backend Engineer will work on eBay Live, focusing on building shipping products and enhancing the live shopping experience for users. This role involves translating requirements into software design, managing project features, and providing technical guidance to team members.
AuctionsE-CommerceInternetMarketplaceRetail
Responsibilities
Translate requirements to software design and create clean, efficient, extensible, maintainable code
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, coaching, and mentorship to individual team members
Identify gaps and issues across systems and functional areas, propose solutions, build the engineering roadmap, and drive resolution
Leads and improves E2E testing quality and increases delivery velocity across features
Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an 'always-on' 24/7 site
Responsible for sub-systems within a large domain, possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise. Taking full responsibility for the entire software life cycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, observability and monitoring
Serve as a key player in influencing and guiding others towards the right technical decisions
Identifying areas of features 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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in EE, CS or other related field
6+ years of experience in working in Java, GraphQL, Spring/Springboot, REST APIs, messaging systems and/or other backend programming languages
Building data-driven applications (RDBMS, NoSQL, ElasticSearch)
Delivers results in fast-paced environments (agile, TDD, CI/CD)
Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and analytical skills
Excellent communication skills to collaborate across teams
Deep understanding of software development processes and standard methodologies, modern DevOps principles and continuous delivery
Proven experience in building large, reliable, scalable distributed systems
Work closely w/ colleagues and customers in different functional groups and remote offices
Preferred
Familiarity with shift left approach is a plus
Past experience with Live Commerce or Live Streaming System is a big plus
Experience on WebSocket is a big plus
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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