Backend Software Engineer, MTS 1

eBay

full-time

Posted on: 9/19/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California, Oregon, Washington

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💰 $115,200 - $222,100 per year

Mid-LevelSenior

Distributed SystemsElasticSearchGraphQLJavaNoSQLRDBMSSpringSpring BootSpringBoot

About the role

Translate requirements to software design and create clean, efficient, extensible, maintainable code.
Practices evidence-centered design making features testable, ensuring high quality and improving velocity in continuous delivery.
Manage project features, break into sub-tasks, identify and resolve issues for efficient execution.
Provide technical guidance, code review for immediate team and other teams, coaching, and mentorship to individual team members.
Identify gaps and issues across systems and functional areas, propose solutions, build the engineering roadmap, and drive resolution.
Leads and improves E2E testing quality and increases delivery velocity across features.
Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an "always-on" 24/7 site.
Responsible for sub-systems within a large domain, possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise.
Taking full responsibility for the entire software life cycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, observability and monitoring.
Serve as a key player in influencing and guiding others towards the right technical decisions.
Identifying areas of features likely to change and integrating flexibility in the design for these areas improving engineering velocity.
Collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners to develop innovative solutions that adhere to development goals and principles.

Bachelor's degree in EE, CS or other related field.
6+ years of experience in working in Java, GraphQL, Spring/Springboot, REST APIs, messaging systems and/or other backend programming languages.
Building data-driven applications (RDBMS, NoSQL, ElasticSearch).
Delivers results in fast-paced environments (agile, TDD, CI/CD).
Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and analytical skills.
Excellent communication skills to collaborate across teams.
Deep understanding of software development processes and standard methodologies, modern DevOps principles and continuous delivery.
Proven experience in building large, reliable, scalable distributed systems.
Work closely w/ colleagues and customers in different functional groups and remote offices.
Familiarity with shift left approach is a plus.
Past experience with Live Commerce or Live Streaming System is a big plus.
Experience on WebSocket is a big plus.
Strong sense of ownership and interpersonal skills to work effectively across teams.
Strong learning ability, self-driven.
Innovative, team player, excellent communication and decision-making.