Backend Engineer

About the Team

You’ll be part of the team building eBay Live
, eBay’s newest shopping experience and live shopping platform. Live shopping is a natural extension of eBay’s ethos —highlighting unique items, collectibles, and fashion while enabling real-time interaction between buyers and sellers. This is a relatively new trend in the US and Europe, growing quickly, and is already broadly established in APAC.

We are looking to hire a passionate, collaborative and motivated Staff Backend Engineer (MTS
2), who will help us develop and evolve eBay Live to be a market leader in live shopping and become a key part of the global eBay platform.

Join us to make an impact on one of the world’s largest e-commerce websites.

• Translate requirements to software design and create clean, efficient, extensible, maintainable code.
• Responsible for a large functional area possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise.
• Influencer across domain teams and guiding others towards the right technical decisions.
• Improves team productivity by identifying and evangelizing opportunities for productivity improvements.
• Identifying areas in the team applications likely to change and integrating flexibility in the design for these areas improving engineering velocity.
• Collaborate effectively with cross‑functional partners to develop innovative solutions that adhere to development goals and principles.
• Practices evidence‑centered design making features testable, ensuring high quality and improving velocity in continuous delivery.
• Manage project features, break into sub‑tasks, identify and resolve issues for efficient execution.
• 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.
• Identify gaps and issues across systems and functional areas, propose solutions, build the engineering roadmap, and drive resolution.
• Lead engineering support, release, and on‑call responsibilities for an “always‑on” 24/7 site.

• 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.

• 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. By focusing on simplification, personalization, and modernization, we aim to build world‑class buyer and seller experiences on eBay marketplaces with creativity and passion. Utilizing cutting‑edge technologies like Generative AI, you’ll tackle complex challenges that directly improve the shopping experience for millions of eBay users every day.
• Vibrant Culture:
  At Buyer Experiences, our strength lies in our diversity, transparency, and collaborative spirit. Our open culture ensures every voice is valued and heard. We celebrate our successes together and approach each challenge as an opportunity for collective growth. Be a part of a dynamic community that not only values your expertise but is also committed to your personal and professional growth.
• Flexible Working:
  Enjoy exceptional support for remote work, allowing you to balance your professional and personal life seamlessly.
• Competitive Compensation and Benefit:
  No matter where you are in the world, eBay supports your health and wellbeing with benefits as unique as you. Explore the benefits that help you be your best self. Check out our benefits here:

• Bachelor’s degree in EE, CS or other related field.
• 8+ years of experience with proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks, with deep mastery in one…