eBay is looking to solve complex technical challenges and drive innovation in their backend systems and platforms to support the company's growth and reinvent the future of ecommerce.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on large-scale, distributed backend systems.
- Proven experience designing and Building complex systems at massive scale, ideally within e-commerce or other high-traffic environments.
- Expertise in distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architectures
- Deep understanding of high-performance databases (SQL, NoSQL), caching strategies, and data replication techniques.
- Solid understanding and hands on experience in building scalable systems and performance tuning, for high-traffic, critical applications.
- Experience working with Java, Kotlin, and deep familiarity with system-level design principles.
- Track record of leading multi-functional projects, aligning teams around complex technical initiatives that impact the entire company.
Responsibilities
- Lead architectural vision for various software systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability in a high-traffic, distributed environment.
- Define, design and implement the technical strategy for backend infrastructure, identifying key innovations, technologies, and tools that will drive platform evolution.
- Mentor and guide senior engineers and teams across the organization, driving alignment with established standards in system architecture, code quality, and operational excellence.
- Lead by example by producing high-quality code that serves as a reference for others.
- Work closely with leadership and multi-functional teams to translate business needs into a long-term technical roadmap that supports new product features and growth.
- Collaborate across engineering disciplines to solve technical challenges related to performance, data consistency, and high availability.
- Drive the adoption of standard processes in backend engineering, including microservices architecture, data architecture, reusable software artifacts, CI/CD pipelines.
Other
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers at all levels, provide strategic technical leadership, and influence organizational direction.
- Exceptional problem-solving skills, with a focus on innovation, scalability, and performance optimization.
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical partners at all levels of the organization.
- The base pay range in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City Metro and Seattle Metro is expected in the range below: $233,200 - $311,300
- The base pay range for all other U.S. work locations is expected in the range below: $180,800 - $277,700
