Senior Software Engineer Backend
Senior Software Engineer Backend
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Job Description
At eBay were more than a global ecommerce leader were changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. Were 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. Were 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
Every day millions of users sell and ship their wares using eBay. 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 a productoriented team who move fast and stay curious. Join us to make an impact on one of the worlds largest ecommerce websites.
The team
The team is a backend team building internal and external APIs enterprise distributed systems and services. Our teams operate a DevOps philosophy. You together with the rest of your team support in production what you build. We value delivery to production getting data/feedback from production and using this data to drive further improvements and features. We release continuously to production multiple times a day.
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 eBays scale
Supporting our applications in production including setting up & maintaining logging monitoring and alerting.
Lead and mentor team on best engineering and architectural patterns and practices.
Pair programming reviewing pull request and givingconstructive feedback.
Contributingto the definition of features for services owned by your team
Continuously improvingyourself and your team by suggesting and helping implement new Engineering tools processes and practices
Translating open product problem into a designed crosscomponent solution
Breaking down the work into meaningful milestones and provisioning estimations
Effectively communicatingyour and your teams progress to your team members your manager and wider eBay colleagues.
Requirements
To be considered for this role you must have significant commercial experience and a passion for working in:
Java 817
Spring Boot
developing and using enterprise APIs
and commercial experience with:
SQL and NoSQL databases
Containerisation
Working in a continuous delivery environment
Distributed and horizontally scalable systems
Observability and monitoring tools
Triaging production issues
Performance tuning of JVM apps
Nice to have
Not vital but youll have the edge if you also have experience with:
Kotlin
Prometheus Query Language (PromQL)
Grafana
Prometheus
or have worked in:
an eCommerce organisation
a shipping/logistics/exports organisation
What you bring
Agile: TestDriven 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 webapplication 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.
Location
This is a hybrid role. Our offices are in Shoreditch London. Currently we are spending three days a week collaborating and socialising with our colleagues in our Shoreditch office. When were in the office a light breakfast and lunch are provided and a weekly massage. Theres a bike rack and a shower too. Shoreditch is a lively area of London we often go out after work in one of the many bars or restaurants in the area.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
