Senior Staff Engineer Backend
Senior Staff 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.
What youll do and learn:
Independently lead complex technical initiatives within and beyond your team.
Drive technical direction and roadmap leads across domain teams and guides others towards the right technical decisions.
Authors ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) that serves as blueprint or a proposed solution for a given technical problem and influences overall tech strategy
Responsible for one or more large functional areas possessing indepth knowledge and expertise.
Demonstrate strong systems approach go beyond immediate needs proactively addressing performance security and futureproofing 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.
Identifying areas in the company platforms likely to change and integrating flexibility in the design for these areas improving engineering velocity
Long term technology vision to continually modernize and keep systems relevant in constantly changing environments
Lead engineering support release and oncall responsibilities for an alwayson 24/7 site
What you bring:
Excellent decisionmaking skills thrive on dealing with ambiguities and changes.
Strong sense of ownership and communication skills embrace diverse ideas across organization and align on 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 determined
Attending knowledge sharing sessions both within the company and externally
Learning transferable skills
Growth mindset and constantly looking for opportunities to learn
Learns adjacent areas (project management people management product management) in addition to core technical skills to better support the organization
What we bring:
Exciting Product Mission with Impactful Technical Challenges Dive into the heart of eCommerce innovation at Buyer Experiences where were transforming eBays shopping journey. By focusing on simplification personalization and modernization we aim to build worldclass buyer and seller experiences on eBay marketplaces with creativity and passion. Using cuttinnovativehnologies like Generative AI youll tackle complex challenges that directly improve the shopping experience for millions of eBay 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 Benefit 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: 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 tradeoffs to ship scalable solutions supporting longterm goals.
Successfully forge alignments with key partners 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 highquality 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.
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
