MTS 1, Software Engineer

MTS 1, 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.

We are seeking dedicated and creative MTS-1 senior backend software engineer (level can be adjusted for candidate's skills and experience) to architect, craft and develop innovative, highly performant, available software across various device form factors that help business sellers worldwide to on-board, handle inventory & listing and grow their business on the largest global marketplace.

In this role, you will deliver at the very core of eBay's selling experience, to deliver an engaging selling experience for more than 25 million sellers across 22 nations, who collectively generate billions of dollars in revenue quarterly. Performance, reliability, scalability and accuracy are of utmost importance as this area of work is at the absolute top of the funnel for all of our extensive e-commerce ecosystem.

Creativity, curiosity, dedication, pride, respect, collaboration and good communication skills are what we're looking for. We expect someone with solid fundamentals, a strong drive for results, flourishes with continuous innovation, dreams big, self-starts, learns fast, gets things done while having fun.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for a functional domain to craft cross data center distributed, fault tolerant, highly available and performant web applications by using software architecture design, OOA/D skills in addition to outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Own major projects and features from design phase to coding, testing, deployment and support.
• Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and rollout system changes. Identify project technical risks and make recommendations to mitigate.
• Use deep technical proven experience of company systems and applications, which could cover applications, services, systems, or frameworks.
• Demonstrate a high level of initiative and attention to detail during daily operations.
• Collaborate effectively with other engineers, product managers, designers, and QA engineers.
• Encourage peers with high-quality, hands-on technical contributions.
• Mentor and lead junior engineers in software engineering methodology, design, and best practices.
• Consistently produce high-quality software with a focus on unit testing, regular code reviews, and continuous integration.
• Uphold high standards in quality and operational excellence.
• Develop comprehensive technical documentation and presentations to clearly communicate architectural decisions and design options. Ensure documentation aligns with project scopes, milestones, and deliverables.
• Effectively delegate tasks and responsibilities within the team, considering individual skills and workload.
• Lead the development of prototypes and proof-of-concept implementations for new technologies or approaches.

Required Experience

The language of work is English.

Education

• Bachelor of Engineering degree plus 8 or more years of experience; or MS in Computer Science plus 6 or more years of hands-on experience in developing highly scalable distributed platforms and services and internet scale web application.

Technical

• Highly experienced in application development in JAVA and Kotlin and its related frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Stream processing platforms such as Kafka and Flink.
• Experienced in Oracle ADF 12c Framework, JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
• Proficiency in J2EE, SOAP, SOA Services, Design Patterns, OOA/D, Data Structures, XML, REST, JSON, and Internet Protocols.
• Proficiency in a programming language such as Scala, solid base in data structures, algorithms and a strong understanding of multithreading, synchronization, concurrent programming; deep architectural understanding of system design and leading project to completion.
• Solid knowledge and experience in noSQL data technology such as Mongo, ElasticSearch and related toolset.
• Full stack development experience in Spring boot and Hadoop framework.
• Experienced in the Scrum model of development.
• Experienced in retail and logistics.
• Ability to troubleshoot performance bottlenecks in applications.
• Experience driving architecture discussions, producing well-documented design docs, participating in design and code reviews, coding and unit testing of fault-tolerant applications. Comfortable or have familiarity with all the layers of multi-tier applications to craft complete solutions.
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals. Experience in non-functional skills like Security, Load and Performance Tests, Accessibility, Site Speed optimization, Cross-browser /Cross-platform UX Design.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, leadership, and collaboration skills.