Software Engineer, Backend

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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.

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Collaborate with engineers, business units, product management, architects, and operations teams to build solutions in the Advertising domain. Lead and estimate engineering effort, plan implementations, and rollout for applications integrating with multi-functional components. Design, develop and test major features while working in an Agile Scrum team. Utilize Java, Oracle DB, NoSQL and other technologies eBay is using, such as NodeJS, HTML, Javascript, CSS, AJAX…etc.

Advertising is a fast growing, high priority area at eBay. The team builds and manages critically important systems at a scale and complexity that is very unique. eBay’s ad products serve 190 million buyers worldwide, and deal with 50 Billion daily events across various stacks. This role will provide an opportunity to work across technology stack from front end to back end, and learn new technologies.

Read about some of our products and recent work here:

• https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/listing-and-marketing/promoted-listings.html
• http://www.ebayadvertising.com/
  
  
  

As a Senior Engineer on the Ads team, you should have an expert's depth and breadth of experience in server-side and client-side technologies. You should be proficient in teaching and leading by example and mentoring both junior and senior engineers.

Requirements

• Design, develop and support projects throughout all phases of the software development process
• Develop innovative solutions that meet market needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, realistic implementation schedules, and consistency to development goals and principles
• Participate in all aspects of PDLC including requirement/design reviews as well as code reviews.
• Create testing harness/infrastructure/test cases/Automation geared towards ensuring quality of the product
• Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and rollout system changes
• Lead product initiatives, recommend improvements, mentor and guide junior team members
• Identify project risks and work effectively to mitigate them
• Share release management duties on feature rollouts,
• Develop industry and product technical expertise
• Find and help fix stability/scalability issues in a very time critical environment
  
  
  

Qualifications

• Ability to think out of the box in solving real world problems.
• A portfolio or work samples demonstrating coding skills (e.g links to Github repository from open source contributions).
• Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills.
• Degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent professional experience.
• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of experience
• Master’s degree with 4+ years of experience
• Ad domain experience a plus
  
  
  

Benefits are an essential part of your total compensation for the work you do every day. Whether you’re single, in a growing family, or nearing retirement, eBay offers a variety of comprehensive and competitive benefit programs to meet your needs. Including maternal & paternal leave, paid sabbatical, and plans to help ensure your financial security today and in the years ahead because we know feeling financially secure during your working years and through retirement is important.

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