Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Looking for a company that inspires passion, courage and creativity, where you can be on the team shaping the future of global commerce? Want to shape how millions of people buy, sell, connect, and share around the world? If you’re interested in joining a purpose driven community that is dedicated to crafting an ambitious and inclusive work environment, join eBay – a company you can be proud to be with.
 We are the View Item and Transaction Flow Team. The team owns the web display of the item, end to end responsibility for auctions & offers, and landing experience for users coming to eBay from Search Engine and Marketing emails. In other words, this team is responsible for the heart of eBay. We drive billions of dollars in revenue via 100’s of millions of page views delivered daily across the globe, across all devices & browsers. Performance, Accuracy, up-to-second fresh data (e.g. winning bid), Scalability and availability are paramount. Any errors have direct financial impact to our users and us. In addition, being the core eBay experience, it has to delight the diverse customer base across the world. We are a data driven agile team. Developers are expected to come up with new feature ideas and work closely with product managers & user experience designers to make them real. We ship often, get immediate user feedback and use a/b tests to make decisions. Developers have end-to-end product ownership from design to implementation, including the responsibilities for code roll-out and responding to customer issues. We are seeking a highly motivated, talented and passionate application developer to build and innovate on backend services to power eBay commerce experience. Come, join us, and invent the next generation of eCommerce.
 Responsibilities include:
 Work with PM and UED teams to create innovative product solutions to meet business objectives
 Collaborate with architects, engineers, QA and Operations teams to design and develop strategic and tactical solutions
 Estimate engineering effort, plan implementations, and roll out applications with cross-functional impact
 Work jointly with other team members to deliver complex applications
 Implement working prototypes for testing new ideas
 Participate and contribute to design and code reviews for producing quality code
 Share engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities
 Communicate with technical and non-technical audiences
 5+ years of work experience in software design and application development or MS in Computer Science plus 3 years of experience
 Extensive hands-on experience and expertise in object-oriented design methodology and application development using Java/J2EE, Design Patterns, Spring MVC, SQL, Web services
 Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures and algorithms
 Experience in developing high performance, highly scalable, database driven consumer web applications
 Good understanding of web services and SOA related standards like REST/OAuth/JSON
 Must be proactive, self-directed, detailed and organized?
 Strong analytical, problem solving skills, verbal and written communication skills
 Ability to work in a fast paced, iterative development environment
 
 Benefits are an essential part of your total compensation for the work you do every day. Whether you’re single, in a growing family, or nearing retirement, eBay offers a variety of comprehensive and competitive benefit programs to meet your needs. Including maternal & paternal leave, paid sabbatical, and plans to help ensure your financial security today and in the years ahead because we know feeling financially secure during your working years and through retirement is important.
 Here at eBay, we love creating opportunities for others by connecting people from widely diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and geographies. So, being diverse and inclusive isn’t just something we strive for, it is who we are, and part of what we do each and every single day. We want to ensure that as an employee, you feel eBay is a place where, no matter who you are, you feel safe, included, and that you have the opportunity to bring your unique self to work. To learn about eBay’s Diversity & Inclusion click here: https://www.ebayinc.com/company/diversity-inclusion/
 
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