Staff Backend Engineer - MTS 2 (Live)

eBay; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Competitive compensation and benefits

Vibrant culture focused on diversity and inclusion

Job summary

A leading e-commerce platform is seeking a Frontend Software Engineer to join their team, focusing on developing the eBay Live shopping platform. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in programming, strong decision-making skills, and a background in collaborating with cross-functional teams. This role offers opportunities for personal and professional growth within a vibrant and inclusive work culture, while tackling complex technical challenges to enhance user experiences.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in programming languages and frameworks.
• Experience in delivering complex software systems.
• Strong familiarity with system design and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Develop clean, efficient code based on requirements.
• Lead project features and manage technical decisions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create solutions.

Skills

Decision-making skills

Interpersonal skills

Mentoring and coaching

Learning ability

Ownership

Education

Bachelor's degree in EE, CS or related field

Job description

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.

Looking for a company where you can shape how the world buys, sells, and gives? Where you’ll be part of a work culture that’s been genuinely committed to diversity and inclusion since its founding more than 30 years ago? Want to be somewhere you can be yourself, do your best work, and truly make an impact? We’d love to talk.

Every day, millions of users sell and ship their wares using eBay. Our team supports this diverse community by building shipping products around the globe, helping individual sellers and small businesses to meet the growing expectations of online buyers. We are an agile team who adapt quickly and stay curious.

You will be part of a team responsible for building out the newest eBay experience -- live shopping platform: eBay Live. Live shopping naturally fits into the eBay ethos -- focused largely on unique items, collectibles and fashion, and enabling direct communication 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 Frontend Software Engineer, 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.

What You'll Do And Learn

• 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 area 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 Decison 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.

What You Bring

• Excellent decision-making skills, thrive on dealing with ambiguities and changes.
• Strong sense of ownership with outstanding interpersonal skills to work effectively across teams & multiple division stakeholders
• 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

What We Bring

• 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 everyday.
• 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: https://www.ebaybenefits.com/index.html.

Qualifications

• 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 or two specific languages/framework
• Experience in proposing and influencing technical strategy & roadmap, balancing short/long term wins is preferable
• Designs and builds scalable, distributed and high-available systems, ensuring high-performant, responsive website and accessibility.
• Familiarity with shift left approach is a plus
• Experience taking a lead role delivering complex software systems

Additional Details

This job posting relates to an existing vacancy within eBay.

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