Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

Requirements

• Java
• Spring Boot
• Developing and using enterprise APIs
• Various testing methodologies
• System design at high scale
• SQL and NoSQL databases
• Async processing
• Cloud native applications
• Working in a continuous delivery environment
• Modern observability practices

Nice to have

• Grafana
• Prometheus
• Kotlin or at least the willingness to learn it
• An eCommerce organization experience
• A shipping/logistics/exports organization experience

What you'll be doing

• 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 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.
• Effectively communicating your and your team’s progress to team members, your manager, and wider eBay colleagues.

What we bring

• Rewarding technical challenges - fixing eCommerce delivery requires solving difficult technical problems.
• Wonderful, bright, air-conditioned offices in Shoreditch with bike racks (and shower!)
• Great company culture - respect and high expectations of others, shared activities.
• Hybrid working - support when working from home.
• Competitive salary and generous benefits.