[Hiring] Senior MTS Backend Engineer @eBay

Role Description

Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all. You will be part of a team responsible for building out the newest eBay experience -- live shopping platform: eBay Live.

• 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 serve as a 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, 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.
• 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.

Qualifications

• 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. Experience in GraphQL is preferable.
• Experiences in leading complex technical initiatives across teams independently from inception to successful delivery.

Requirements

• Excellent decision-making skills, thrive on dealing with ambiguities and changes.
• Strong sense of ownership and communication skills, embrace diverse ideas across the organization and align in 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, self-driven.
• 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.

Benefits

• Exciting Product Mission with Impactful Technical Challenges - Dive into the heart of eCommerce innovation at Buyer Experiences, where we’re transforming eBay's shopping journey.
• Vibrant Culture - At Buyer Experiences, our strength lies in our diversity, transparency, and collaborative spirit.
• Flexible Working - Enjoy exceptional support for remote work, allowing you to balance your professional and personal life seamlessly.
• Competitive Compensation and Benefits - eBay supports your health and wellbeing with benefits as unique as you.