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.
Company Overview
eBay is a global online marketplace enabling users to buy, sell, and auction new or used items across various categories. It was founded in 1995, and is headquartered in San Jose, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.ebay.com/.Company H1B Sponsorship
eBay has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 122 in 2026, 570 in 2025, 883 in 2024, 779 in 2023, 682 in 2022, 748 in 2021, 766 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.