Java Backend Software Engineer

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.

** Must Reside in Ontario **
 

About the team

In eBay Stores and Social team, you will be an integral member of a growing organization that inspires passion, courage, and inventiveness - crafting the future of global commerce and making an important, positive impact on millions of eBay sellers and shoppers around the world.

Technical expertise, curiosity, dedication, pride, respect, teamwork and good communication skills with proven computer science fundamentals, a strong drive for results, flourishes with continuous innovation, dreams big, self-starts, learns fast, gets things done while having fun.

We are seeking a strong Java Backend Software Engineer with hands-on experience in architecture and building large-scale, distributed web applications.

What you will accomplish:

• Collaborate closely with peers, Architects, Product Managers, Business Analysts, Quality Engineers, and Operations teams to develop innovative solutions that meet functional and non-functional standards and expectations

• Be involved in development, testing, release, triage, bug fix, documentation and work in an Agile environment. Use of tools like JIRA, Git, CICD and other internal eBay tools on a regular basis to prioritize work and deliver features

• Evaluate and define storage needs and make recommendations about technology, define domain services and interface definitions and testing architecture

• Design and build high-performing, reliable solutions for high-throughput, distributed systems using a variety of third-party and eBay internal libraries and frameworks

• Participate in technical design and code reviews and provide feedback to other specialists on the team

• Estimate engineering efforts, roadmap planning and be responsible for operational processes, such as automation and controls, to help with efficiency and quality of both manual and technical operations

What you will bring:

• Prefer a B.S. or M.S degree in computer science or related field plus 3+ years of proven experience in building large-scale web based distributed systems in Java.

• Detailed understanding in computer science fundamentals, data structures and algorithms and extensive experience in building highly available, scalable and robust applications

• Excellent object-oriented design and coding skills in Java, hands-on experience using unit/integration test frameworks to build fully automated software applications

• Proven understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, data storage/access patterns, caching techniques, messaging systems and asynchronous workflows

• Experience with bug triaging and debugging techniques, logging and monitoring systems, application and query performance tuning

• Good understanding of web services and SOA related standards like REST/OAuth/JSON

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