Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

eBay Inc.; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate backend engineer to join their innovative team. This role involves building and maintaining internal and external APIs, contributing to enterprise distributed systems, and supporting applications in production. You will be part of a dynamic environment that embraces a DevOps philosophy, where continuous improvement and collaboration are key. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, this company offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact on a global scale. If you thrive in a fast-paced, agile setting and are eager to shape the future of e-commerce, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

25 days paid time off

Sabbatical after five years

Private health insurance

Dental and eye care

Life and disability insurance

Employee stock purchase plan

Employer contributed pension

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Java and Spring Boot development.
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases and containerisation.

Responsibilities

• Deliver against product and engineering backlogs consistently.
• Architect secure and maintainable solutions for eBay’s scale.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

SQL

NoSQL

Containerisation

Continuous delivery

Distributed systems

Monitoring tools

Performance tuning

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

PromQL

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.

About eBay

Looking for a company where you can shape how the world buys, sells, and gives? Where you’ll be supported in challenging convention, taking risks, and innovating? Where you’ll be part of a work culture that’s been genuinely committed to diversity and inclusion since its founding more than 20 years ago? Where you can just be yourself, do your best work, and have a meaningful impact? If so, we’d love to talk to you.

About the role

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 a product-oriented team who move fast and stay curious. Join us to make an impact on one of the world’s largest e-commerce websites.

The team is a backend team building internal and external APIs, enterprise distributed systems and services. Our teams operate a DevOps philosophy. You, together with the rest of your team, support in production what you build. We value delivery to production, getting data/feedback from production and using this data to drive further improvements and features. We release continuously to production, multiple times a day.

You will be responsible for

Your responsibilities in this role include, but are not limited to:

• Consistently delivering against the product and engineering backlogs.
• Architecting solutions that are secure, maintainable, extensible and can meet the demands of eBay’s scale.
• Supporting our applications in production, including setting up & maintaining logging, monitoring and alerting.
• Lead and mentor team on best engineering and architectural patterns and practices.
• Pair programming, reviewing pull request and giving constructive feedback.
• Contributing to the definition of features for services owned by your team.
• Continuously improving yourself and your team by suggesting and helping implement new Engineering tools, processes and practices.
• Translating open product problem into a designed cross-component solution.
• Breaking down the work into meaningful milestones and provisioning estimations.
• Effectively communicating your and your team’s progress to your team members, your manager and wider eBay colleagues.

Requirements

To be considered for this role, you must have significant commercial experience and a passion for working in:

• Java (8-17)
• Spring Boot
• Developing and using enterprise APIs

And commercial experience with:

• SQL and NoSQL databases
• Containerisation
• Working in a continuous delivery environment
• Distributed and horizontally scalable systems
• Observability and monitoring tools
• Triaging production issues
• Performance tuning of JVM apps

Nice to have

Not vital, but you’ll have the edge if you also have experience with:

• Kotlin
• Prometheus Query Language (PromQL)
• Grafana
• Prometheus

Or have worked in:

• An eCommerce organisation
• A shipping/logistics/exports organisation

What you bring

• Agile: Test-Driven Development, collaboration and continuous delivery are your preferred engineering practices? We take the best bits of Lean, Scrum and Kanban too.
• Architecture: In a large scale distributed web-application, you choose the right tool for the job at hand. You know when to break something out into a new component and the best way to wire it in, when to go with the simplest fit into the current system and when to rethink the existing approach.
• Experience: You are an experienced engineer, with several years working at a high level, confident working on a range of languages and frameworks and are happy to pick up new ones. You like working on established technology stacks as well as quickly changing platforms.

Location

This is a hybrid role. Our offices are in Shoreditch, London. Currently we are spending three days a week collaborating and socialising with our colleagues in our Shoreditch office. When we’re in the office, a light breakfast and lunch are provided, and a weekly massage. There’s a bike rack and a shower too. Shoreditch is a lively area of London - we often go out after work in one of the many bars or restaurants in the area.

Benefits

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.

In addition to a competitive salary, eBay UK benefits include:

• 25 days paid time off - increasing to 27 after two years, and an additional day each year up to a maximum of 30.
• Sabbatical for 4 weeks after five years.
• 20 weeks paid leave for birth parents, 12 weeks leave for non-birth parents (fathers, adoptive parents, surrogacy).
• Private health insurance, dental and eye care.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Employee stock purchase plan (15% discount) and Restricted Stock Unit (RSUs) grant.
• Employer contributed pension up to 9%.

Read more about our benefits at https://ebaybenefits.com/gbr/employee.html

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