[Remote] MTS1 Backend Engineer - eBay Live

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. eBay is a global ecommerce leader committed to redefining the shopping experience. They are seeking a passionate Backend Software Engineer to develop the eBay Live platform, focusing on building innovative solutions for live shopping and enhancing the user experience.

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 increase delivery velocity across features
• Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an 'always-on' 24/7 site
• Responsible for subsytems 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 area improving engineering velocity
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners to develop innovative solutions that adhere to development goals and principles

Skills

• 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 or other backend programming languages
• Building data-driven applications (RDBMS, NoSQL, ElasticSearch)
• Delivers results in fast-paced environments (agile, TDD, CI/CD)
• Familiarilty with shift left approach is a plus
• Experience building real time, user facing systems (e.g., live streaming, chat, bidding, collaboration tools, gaming, or financial trading) where latency and errors materially impact user trust and outcomes
• Background working on high traffic, event driven products (launches, flash sales, live events) with an understanding of infrastructure capacity planning, traffic spikes, and graceful degradation under load
• Lead root-cause analysis and implement long-term fixes across platform to eliminate recurring issues and continuously elevate the customer experience
• Websocket and FGQL experience a plus

Benefits

• Target bonus
• Restricted stock units (as applicable)
• Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave)
• Flexible Working - Enjoy exceptional support for remote work, allowing you to balance your professional and personal life seamlessly.

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