Staff Backend Engineer

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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:

eBay's Homepage engineering team is looking for an outstanding Backend Engineer to work with as we redefine the face of eBay. You’ll be working with a world class team of engineers, designers, product managers, and analysts to build great products that make a difference on one of the world’s most trafficked and loved websites.
Our technology stack includes rapidly evolving GenAI models, a Machine Learned Recommendation Framework, JS Frontend app and Javascript+Java based back-end. The home page includes key machine learning recommendations like “Recommended for you”, “Frequently Searched by you”, deals and marketing placements.
Our team is highly visible in the organization, has a direct business impact on eBay's top-line revenue, and has customer impact globally. What we work on here impacts the lives of millions every day!

What you will accomplish:

• Build and maintain eBay’s homepage backend engineering and translate requirements to software design and create clean, efficient, extensible, maintainable code.
• Own major functional areas, driving key architectural decisions and ensuring performance, reliability, and accessibility.
• Influence technical direction across domain teams and guide others toward sound architectural choices.
• Design and build scalable, distributed and high-available systems, ensuring high-performant, responsive website and accessibility.
• Provide technical guidance, code review for immediate team and other teams, contribute and review ADRs (Architecture Decision Records), coaching, and mentorship to individual team members within and outside teams.
• Lead engineering support, release, and triage on-call responsibilities in production for an "always-on" 24/7 site.    
• Improve engineering velocity through CI/CD enhancements, better tooling, and process improvements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to deliver high-impact solutions.
• Identify system gaps, propose solutions, and influence the engineering roadmap.
• Foster a culture of learning, growth, and knowledge sharing across teams.

What you will bring:

• 8+ years of experience with proficiency in multiple programming languages (emphasis in Java and NodeJS preferred), with deep mastery in one or two specific languages/framework.
• Experience in proposing and influencing technical strategy & roadmap, balancing short/long term wins is preferable.
• Experience designing and building scalable, distributed and high-available systems, ensuring high-performant, responsive website and accessibility.
• Experience taking a lead role delivering complex software systems.
• Plusses: GraphQL, Typescript
• Familiarity with shift left approach is also a plus.

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to 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). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employees will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

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