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 roleEvery 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, 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 forYour 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, documenting in code along the waySupporting our applications in production, including setting up & maintaining logging, monitoring and alerting, being on-call, leading retrospectivesLead 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 teamContinuously improvingyourself, your team, the product by building AI agents, suggesting and helping implement new Engineering tools, processes, best practices, which also increase our velocity and improve testing and observability.Effectively communicatingyour and your team’s progress to your team members, your manager and wider eBay colleagues.Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for an entire application or featuresPartners with EM, PM - collaborates to gather and understand requirements and expectations and provides estimations, options to mitigate risksLeading on large initiatives spanning multiple teams in the domainRequirementsTo be considered for this role, you must have 10+years of experience in software development, 5+years of experience with software design and architecture, running large scale distributed systems in production environments.You must have significant commercial experience and a passion for working in:JavaSpring BootDeveloping and using enterprise APIsVarious testing methodologiesSystem design at high scaleand commercial experience with:SQL and NoSQL databasesAsync processingCloud native applicationsWorking in a Continuous Delivery environmentModern observability practicesNice to haveNot vital, but you’ll have the edge if you also have experience with:GrafanaPrometheusKotlin or a least the willingness to learn itBatch processing data pipelinesor have worked in:an eCommerce organisationa shipping/logistics/exports organisationWhat you bringAgile: 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.Leadership: You have proven experience on delivering complex initiatives at scale by leading multiple teams from technical and process points of view. You have influenced the technical direction of a team and have mentoring experience.Maturity: You understand the necessity of the engineering vs business balance and are able to compromise efficiently. You are not afraid of legacy systems and know how to deal with them and when. You plan just right according to a situation and not too much or too little. Sensible approach when it comes to late changes or deadlines.What we bringRewarding technical challenges - fixing eCommerce delivery requires solving difficult technical problems: building unified shipping platforms for diverse customers, iterating fast while providing the best customer experience, constantly improving our technology while dealing with the eBay volume is what we do best.Wonderful, bright, air-conditioned offices in Shoreditch, with bike racks (and shower!), right next to Liverpool St and Shoreditch High Street stations for super easy commuting, and lots of great food options nearby. When we’re in the office, a light breakfast and lunch is provided, and a weekly massage.Great company culture - we have a culture of respect and high expectations of others. We love sharing a drink during our Friday All Hands, play board games and enjoy free lunch on our demo day.Hybrid working - really great support when working from home (we’ve got good video conferencing facilities).Competitive salary and generous benefits.BenefitsBenefits 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 30Sabbatical for 4 weeks after five years20 weeks paid leave for birth parents, 12 weeks leave for non-birth parents (fathers, adoptive parents, surrogacy)Private health insurance, dental and eye careLife and disability insuranceEmployee stock purchase plan (15% discount) and Restricted Stock Unit (RSUs) grantEmployer contributed pension up to 9%Read more about our benefits at https://ebaybenefits.com/gbr/employee.html#reconPlease see the Talent Privacy Noticefor information regarding how eBay handles your personal data collected when you use the eBay Careers website or apply for a job with eBay.eBay is an equal opportunity employer. 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