Senior Software Engineer IC

Overview

At eBay, 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.

About The Role

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 25 years ago? Where you can just be yourself, do your best work, and have a meaningful impact? If so, we’d love to talk to you.

About The Team

Global Payments and Risk is at the forefront of innovation, integrating ground breaking technologies into our products and services. We are dedicated to solve real-world problems, improve user experiences, and drive business outcomes. Join us in shaping the future with your expertise and passion for technology.

You will be responsible for

Your responsibilities in this role include, but are not limited to:

• Consistently delivering against the product and engineering backlogs. 
• Architecting solutions that are secure, maintainable, extensible and can meet the demands of eBay’s scale, documenting in code along the way
• Supporting our applications in production, including setting up & maintaining logging, monitoring and alerting, being on-call, leading retrospectives
• Lead and mentor team on best engineering and architectural patterns and practices.
• Pair programming, reviewing pull request and giving constructive feedback.
• Contributing to the definition of features for services owned by your team
• Continuously improving yourself, your team, the product by building AI agents, suggesting and helping implement new Engineering tools, processes, best practices, which also increase our velocity and improve testing and observability.
• Effectively communicating your and your team’s progress to your team members, your manager and wider eBay colleagues.
• Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for an entire application or features
• Partners with EM, PM - collaborates to gather and understand requirements and expectations and provides estimations, options to mitigate risks
• Leading on large initiatives spanning multiple teams in the domain
  
  
  

To be considered for this role, you must have 10+years of experience in software development, 5+years of experience with software design and architecture, running large scale distributed systems in production environments.

You must have significant commercial experience and a passion for working in:

• Java
• Spring Boot
• Developing and using enterprise APIs
• Various testing methodologies
• System design at high scale
  
  
  

• SQL and NoSQL databases
• Async processing
• Cloud native applications
• Working in a Continuous Delivery environment
• Modern observability practices
  
  
  

Not vital, but you’ll have the edge if you also have experience with:

• Grafana
• Prometheus
• Kotlin or at least the willingness to learn it
• Batch processing data pipeline
• Worked in an eCommerce organisation
  
  
  

• Agile: Test-Driven Development, collaboration and continuous delivery are your preferred engineering practices? We take the best bits of Lean, Scrum and Kanban too.
• Architecture: In a large scale distributed web-application, you choose the right tool for the job at hand. You know when to break something out into a new component and the best way to wire it in, when to go with the simplest fit into the current system and when to rethink the existing approach.
• Experience: You are an experienced engineer, with several years working at a high level, confident working on a range of languages and frameworks and are happy to pick up new ones. You like working on established technology stacks as well as quickly changing platforms.
• Leadership: You have proven experience on delivering complex initiatives at scale by leading multiple teams from technical and process points of view. You have influenced the technical direction of a team and have mentoring experience.
• Maturity: You understand the necessity of the engineering vs business balance and are able to compromise efficiently. You are not afraid of legacy systems and know how to deal with them and when. You plan just right according to a situation and not too much or too little. Sensible approach when it comes to late changes or deadlines.
  
  
  

eBay 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 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. View our accessibility statement to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities.

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