Senior Backend 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 role

Like to shake things up? We do! The Advertising Team is reinventing advertising at eBay!  

We are creating innovative ad-tech solutions to optimize the ad monetization and experience on eBay.  Our goal is to create a valuable experience for both buyers and sellers, while also driving performance for advertisers.  To that end, we are innovating rapidly in the ad-tech space and there is no shortage of new challenges for motivated individuals. In this role, you will work closely with designers, product managers and other engineers (iOS, Android, frontend, backend, machine learning) to revolutionize the advertising space for eBay and beyond.

Curious to learn more? Here are some useful resources about eBay Advertising Space:

• https://www.ebay.com/sellercenter/growth/promoted-listings

• http://www.ebayadvertising.com/

Join us in shaping the future of eBay advertising! Be an integral part of the team building out a new unified advertising platform – a foundation of eBay marketplace.

You’ll be working on a variety of the services, tools and components and will be actively involved in all aspects of development. We’re a very collaborative team, we highly value initiative, enthusiasm and passion for building high-quality software. The problems we are solving are complex, so resourcefulness, desire to learn and openness to change are a must. We work in an agile environment with emphasis on developer empowerment and teamwork.

What you will accomplish

• Design and build high-performing, reliable solutions for high-throughput, distributed systems using a variety of third-party and eBay internal libraries and frameworks

• Integrate closely w/ colleagues in different functional groups and remote offices

• Communicate effectively within your team and across teams

• Contribute to technical conversations and debates, and decide upon approaches and tools to utilize

• Balance strong ownership and teamwork

• Research, innovate, deliver and grow

What you will bring

• BS/BA in Computer Science or related field plus 6+ years work experience or MS with 4 years of relevant experience

• Experience with Java and Kotlin (most of our codebase is written in both)

• Plus to have experience with Scala

• Experience with frameworks (Spring Boot) and deployments on Jenkins + cloud platforms (CI, AWS, Azure is a plus)

• Experience with Maven for build automation tools and package management

• Experience working with GraphQL

• ​​Experience building web applications and RESTful and GraphQL endpoints, queries and mutations

• Huge plus if you have experience with Javascript/TypeScript (React, Angular, Node)

• Experience working with distributed systems, experience with Streaming services like Kafka

• Experience with Jira (or other issue tracking software), familiarity with OpenAPI/Swagger, exposure to the Agile process

• Knowledge of core CS concepts such as common data structures and algorithms

• Code samples from private github repos, side projects, and open source project contributions is a plus