Senior Software Engineer

At eBay, we're more than a global ecommerce leader — we’re changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We’re 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. We're 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.

About the team and the role:

The team is a backend team building internal and external APIs, enterprise distributed systems, services. Our teams operate a DevOps philosophy. You, together with the rest of your team, support in production what you build. We value delivery to production, getting data/feedback from production and using this data to drive further improvements and features. We release continuously to production, multiple times a day.



You will be responsible for :

• Consistently delivering against the product and engineering backlogs. 
• Architecting solutions that are secure, maintainable, extensible and can meet the demands of eBay’s scale
• Supporting our applications in production, including setting up & maintaining logging, monitoring and alerting.
• Lead and mentor team on best engineering and architectural patterns and practices.
• Pair programming, reviewing pull request and giving constructive feedback.
• Contributing to the definition of features for services owned by your team

• Continuously improving yourself and your team by suggesting and helping implement new Engineering tools, processes and practices
• Effectively communicating your and your team’s progress to your team members, your manager and wider eBay colleagues.

Requirements:

To be considered for this role, you must have significant commercial experience and a passion for working in:

• Java
• Kotlin
• Spring
• developing and using enterprise APIs

and commercial experience with:

• SQL and NoSQL databases
• Containerisation
• and working in a continuous delivery environment

Nice to have:

Not vital, but you’ll have the edge if you also have experience with:

• Prometheus Query Language (PromQL)
• Grafana
• Prometheus

or have worked in:

• an eCommerce organisation
• a shipping/logistics/exports organisation

What you bring:

• Agile: Test-Driven Development, collaboration and continuous delivery are your preferred engineering practices? We take the best bits of Lean, Scrum and Kanban too.

• Architecture: In a large scale distributed web-application, you choose the right tool for the job at hand. You know when to break something out into a new component and the best way to wire it in, when to go with the simplest fit into the current system and when to rethink the existing approach.
• Experience: You are an experienced engineer, with several years working at a high level, confident working on a range of languages and frameworks and are happy to pick up new ones. You like working on established technology stacks as well as quickly changing platforms.

What we bring:

• Rewarding technical challenges - fixing eCommerce delivery requires solving difficult technical problems: building unified shipping platforms for diverse customers, iterating fast while providing the best customer experience, constantly improving our technology while dealing with the eBay volume is what we do best.
• Bright, air-conditioned offices in Shoreditch, with bike racks (and shower!), right next to Liverpool St and Shoreditch High Street stations for super easy commuting, and lots of great food options nearby. When we’re in the office, a light breakfast and lunch is provided, and a weekly massage.
• Great company culture - we have a culture of respect and high expectations of others. We love sharing a drink during our Friday All Hands, play board games and enjoy free lunch on our demo day.
• Hybrid working - really great support when working from home (we’ve got good video conferencing facilities).
• Competitive salary and generous benefits.
  
  
  
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