Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. eBay is a global ecommerce leader transforming the shopping experience through innovative platforms. They are seeking a Senior MTS Backend Engineer to lead complex technical initiatives and drive the development of eBay Live, their new live shopping platform.
Responsibilities
- Independently lead complex technical initiatives within and beyond your team
- Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an 'always-on' 24/7 site
- 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 in-depth knowledge and expertise
- Demonstrate strong systems mindset, go beyond immediate needs, proactively addressing performance, security, and future-proofing 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 area improving engineering velocity
- Long term technology vision to continually modernize and keep systems relevant in constantly changing environments
Skills
- Bachelor's 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 trade-offs to ship scalable solutions supporting long-term goals
- Successfully forge alignments with key stakeholders 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 high-quality 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
- Experiences in leading complex technical initiatives across teams independently from inception to successful delivery
- Experience in GraphQL is preferable
Benefits
- Target bonus
- Restricted stock units (as applicable)
- A 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/.