eBay · 9 hours ago
Senior Backend Engineer
Portland, OR
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$115K/yr - $200K/yr
6+ years expeBay is a global ecommerce leader committed to changing the way the world shops and sells. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to work with a team of engineers, designers, and product managers to build and maintain the backend of eBay’s homepage, ensuring high performance and scalability.
AuctionsE-CommerceInternetMarketplaceRetail
Responsibilities
Build and maintain eBay’s homepage backend engineering and translate requirements to software design and create clean, efficient, extensible, maintainable code
Be responsible for a large functional area possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise
Influence across domain teams and guiding others towards the right technical decisions
Design and build scalable, distributed and high-available systems, ensuring high-performant, responsive website and accessibility
Provide technical guidance, code review for immediate team and other teams, contribute and review ADRs (Architecture Decision Records), coaching, and mentorship to individual team members within and outside teams
Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities
Identify areas in the team applications and integrate flexibility in the design for these areas
Improve engineering velocity through CI/CD recommendations and process improvements
Lead and improve E2E testing quality and increases delivery velocity across features
Qualification
Required
6+ years of experience with proficiency in multiple programming languages (emphasis in Java and NodeJS preferred), with deep mastery in one or two specific languages/framework
Bachelor's degree in EE, CS or other related field
Experience in proposing and influencing technical strategy & roadmap, balancing short/long term wins is preferable
Experience designing and building scalable, distributed and high-available systems, ensuring high-performant, responsive website and accessibility
Experience taking a lead role delivering complex software systems
Preferred
Familiarity with shift left approach is a plus
Plusses: GraphQL, Typescript
Benefits
Target bonus
Restricted stock units
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
401(k) eligibility
Various paid time off benefits
PTO
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
Chief Executive Officer, eBay
Alex Kazim
VP, GM eBay Services
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