Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

0145 eBay Group Services (UK) Ltd; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an experienced engineer for a backend role focused on building and supporting APIs and distributed systems. Applicants should have significant experience with Spring Boot and SQL, and thrive in an Agile, collaborative environment. This hybrid position offers great team dynamics and opportunities for personal growth.

Benefits

Light breakfast and lunch provided

Weekly massage

Bike rack and shower facilities

Social events and outings

Qualifications

• Significant commercial experience with Spring Boot and enterprise APIs.
• Experience in performance tuning of JVM applications.
• Working knowledge of observability and monitoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Delivering against product and engineering backlogs.
• Supporting applications in production.
• Architecting secure, maintainable, and extensible solutions.

Skills

Spring Boot

SQL

NoSQL

DevOps

Performance tuning

Tools

Prometheus Query Language

Grafana

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29.06.2025

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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 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

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 givingconstructive feedback.

Contributingto the definition of features for services owned by your team

Continuously improvingyourself 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 communicatingyour 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:

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

or have worked in:

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.

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