About eBayLooking for a company where you can shape how the world buys, sells, and gives? Where you’ll be supported in challenging convention, taking risks, and innovating? Where you’ll be part of a work culture that’s been genuinely committed to diversity and inclusion since its founding more than 20 years ago? Where you can just be yourself, do your best work, and have a meaningful impact? If so, we’d love to talk to you.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. Your 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 scaleSupporting our applications in production, including setting up & maintaining logging, monitoring and alerting.Lead and mentor team on the best engineering and architectural patterns and practices.Pair programming, reviewing pull request and giving constructive feedback.Contributing to the definition of features for services owned by your teamContinuously improving yourself and your team by suggesting and helping implement new Engineering tools, processes and practicesEffectively communicating your and your team’s progress to your team members, your manager and wider eBay colleagues. RequirementsTo be considered for this role, you must have significant commercial experience and a passion for working in:JavaKotlinSpringdeveloping and using enterprise APIsand commercial experience with:SQL and NoSQL databasesContainerisationand working in a continuous delivery environment Nice to haveNot vital, but you’ll have the edge if you also have experience with:Prometheus Query Language (PromQL)GrafanaPrometheus or have worked in:an eCommerce organisationa shipping/logistics/exports organisation What 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. 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. BenefitsIn 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% Benefits 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. Including maternal & paternal leave, paid sabbatical, and plans to help ensure your financial security today and in the years ahead because we know feeling financially secure during your working years and through retirement is important.Here at eBay, we love creating opportunities for others by connecting people from widely diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and geographies. So, being diverse and inclusive isn’t just something we strive for, it is who we are, and part of what we do each and every single day. We want to ensure that as an employee, you feel eBay is a place where, no matter who you are, you feel safe, included, and that you have the opportunity to bring your unique self to work. To learn about eBay’s Diversity & Inclusion click here: https://www.ebayinc.com/company/diversity-inclusion/#LI-DO1eBay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at talent@ebay.com. We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible. View our accessibility statement to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities.Jobs posted with location as "Remote - United States (Excludes: HI, NM)" excludes residents of Hawaii and New Mexico. This website uses cookies to enhance your experience. By continuing to browse the site, you agree to our use of cookies. Visit our Privacy Center for more information.
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