Staff 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.

About the role

Every 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 for:

• 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 way.
• Supporting our applications in production, including setting up & maintaining logging, monitoring and alerting, being on-call, leading retrospectives.
• Leading and mentoring team on best engineering and architectural patterns and practices.
• Pair programming, reviewing pull requests and giving constructive feedback.
• Contributing to the definition of features for services owned by your team.
• Continuously improving yourself, 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 communicating your and your team’s progress to your team members, your manager and wider eBay colleagues.
• Leading identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for an entire application or features.
• Partnering with EM, PM - collaborating to gather and understand requirements and expectations and provides estimations, options to mitigate risks.
• Leading on large initiatives spanning multiple teams in the domain.

Requirements

To 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.
• Significant commercial experience and a passion for working in:

• Java
• Spring Boot
• Developing and using enterprise APIs
• Various testing methodologies
• System design at high scale

• SQL and NoSQL databases
• Async processing
• Cloud native applications
• Working in a Continuous Delivery environment
• Modern observability practices

Nice to have:

• Experience with Grafana.
• Prometheus.
• Kotlin or a least the willingness to learn it.
• Batch processing data pipelines.
• Experience in an eCommerce organisation.
• Experience in a shipping/logistics/exports organisation.

What you bring:

• Agile: Test-Driven Development, collaboration and continuous delivery are your preferred engineering practices.
• Architecture: In a large scale distributed web-application, you choose the right tool for the job at hand.
• Experience: You are an experienced engineer, with several years working at a high level, confident working on a range of languages and frameworks.
• Leadership: Proven experience on delivering complex initiatives at scale by leading multiple teams.
• Maturity: Understanding the necessity of the engineering vs business balance and able to compromise efficiently.

What we bring:

• Rewarding technical challenges - fixing eCommerce delivery requires solving difficult technical problems.
• Wonderful, bright, air-conditioned offices in Shoreditch, with bike racks (and shower!), right next to Liverpool St and Shoreditch High Street stations.
• Great company culture - we have a culture of respect and high expectations of others.
• Hybrid working - really great support when working from home.
• Competitive salary and generous benefits.

Benefits

Benefits are an essential part of your total compensation for the work you do every day. 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 30.
• Sabbatical for 4 weeks after five years.
• 20 weeks paid leave for birth parents, 12 weeks leave for non-birth parents.
• Private health insurance, dental and eye care.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Employee stock purchase plan (15% discount) and Restricted Stock Unit (RSUs) grant.
• Employer contributed pension up to 9%.