Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

Requirements:

• Significant commercial experience with Java and Spring Boot in large-scale, distributed systems.
• Experience designing, building, and consuming enterprise APIs and high-scale system architectures.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, asynchronous processing, and cloud-native applications.
• Experience working in a continuous delivery environment with modern testing and observability practices.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor engineers, and to guide technical direction across multiple teams.
• Comfort balancing engineering quality with business needs, including working with and evolving legacy systems.

What you'll be doing:

• Design and deliver backend services and APIs that support global shipping products used by millions of eBay users.
• Architect secure, maintainable, and scalable solutions that operate reliably at eBay’s scale.
• Lead large, cross-team technical initiatives, influencing architecture and delivery across the domain.
• Support services in production by implementing and maintaining logging, monitoring, alerting, and observability practices.
• Improve engineering quality and delivery through practices such as pair programming, code reviews, and constructive feedback.
• Collaborate with product and engineering partners to define, build, and evolve features owned by the team.
• Continuously strengthen team effectiveness by introducing and adopting improved tools, processes, and engineering practices.

Nice to haves:

• Experience with, or willingness to learn, additional technologies such as Kotlin; familiarity with tools like Grafana or Prometheus is a plus.