MTS1 Backend Engineer - eBay Live

About the role

Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all. Looking for a company where you can shape how the world buys, sells, and gives? Where you’ll be part of a work culture that’s been genuinely committed to diversity and inclusion since its founding more than 25 years ago? Where you can just be yourself, do your best work, and have a meaningful impact?

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Lead E2E testing quality and increase delivery velocity across features.
• Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an "always-on" 24/7 site.
• Responsible for subsytems 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.

Qualifications

• 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 or other backend programming languages.
• Building data-driven applications (RDBMS, NoSQL, ElasticSearch).
• Delivers results in fast-paced environments (agile, TDD, CI/CD).
• Familiarity with shift left approach is a plus.
• Preferred Experience: Experience building real time, user facing systems (e.g., live streaming, chat, bidding, collaboration tools, gaming, or financial trading) where latency and errors materially impact user trust and outcomes.
• Background working on high traffic, event driven products (launches, flash sales, live events) with an understanding of infrastructure capacity planning, traffic spikes, and graceful degradation under load.
• Led root-cause analysis and implement long-term fixes across platform to eliminate recurring issues and continuously elevate the customer experience.
• Websocket and FGQL experience a plus.