Backend Software Engineer - e Bay Live

About e Bay

At e Bay, 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. Looking for a company where you can shape how the world buys, sells, and gives? Where you'll be part of a work culture that's been genuinely committed to diversity and inclusion since its founding more than 30 years ago? Want to be somewhere you can be yourself, do your best work, and truly make an impact? We'd love to talk.

About the Role

Every day, millions of users sell and ship their wares using e Bay. Our team supports this diverse community by building shipping products around the globe, helping individual sellers and small businesses to meet the growing expectations of online buyers. We are an agile team who adapt quickly and stay curious.

You will be part of a team responsible for building out the newest e Bay experience -- live shopping platform: e Bay Live. Live shopping naturally fits into the e Bay ethos -- focused largely on unique items, collectibles and fashion, and enabling direct communication 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 Backend Software Engineer, who will help us develop and evolve e Bay Live to be a market leader in live shopping and become a key part of the global e Bay platform. Join us to make an impact on one of the world's largest e-commerce websites.

What You'll Do and Learn

• Independently lead complex technical initiatives within and beyond your team
• Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an "always-on" 24/7 site
• Drive technical direction and roadmap, leads across domain teams and guides others towards the right technical decisions
• Author ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) that serve as blueprint or a proposed solution for a given technical problem and influence 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
• Identify areas in the company platforms likely to change and integrate flexibility in the design for these areas improving engineering velocity
• Develop long term technology vision to continually modernize and keep systems relevant in constantly changing environments

What You Bring

• 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
• Learn adjacent areas (project management, people management, product management) in addition to core technical skills to better support the organization

Qualifications

• 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
• Experience in GraphQL is preferable
• Experiences in leading complex technical initiatives across teams independently from inception to successful delivery

What We Bring

Exciting Product Mission with Impactful Technical Challenges - Dive into the heart of e Commerce innovation at Buyer Experiences, where we're transforming e Bay's shopping journey. By focusing on simplification, personalization, and modernization, we aim to build world-class buyer and seller experiences on e Bay 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 e Bay 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 Benefits - 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.

Equal Opportunity

This job posting relates to an existing vacancy within e Bay. e Bay 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, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at talent@ebay.com. We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible.

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