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.

At eBay, we're more than a global e-commerce 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 e-commerce 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 team and the role:

eBay's Homepage and CMS engineering team is seeking a talented Backend Engineer with a strong passion for Machine Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) to help redefine the face of eBay. In this role, you’ll collaborate with a world-class team of engineers, designers, product managers, and analysts to build innovative products that impact millions of users on one of the world’s most visited and beloved websites.
We’re looking for someone who can take ownership of integrating cutting-edge Generative AI technologies, including LLMs, into our platform and elevate our Machine Learning-driven recommendation systems. You’ll play a key role in shaping the technical direction of our backend services and AI capabilities.

Our technology stack includes a rapidly evolving GenAI models, Machine Learned Recommendation Framework, Node.js front end app and Scala+Java based back-end. The home page includes key machine learning recommendations like “Recommended for you”, “Frequently Searched by you”, deals and marketing placements. The CMS includes auto layout management using GenAI. Our team is highly visible in the organization, has a direct business impact on eBay's top-line revenue, and has customer impact globally. What we work on here impacts the lives of millions every day.

The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of building scalable backend applications. As the lead engineer you will oversee aspects of the software lifecycle : design, development, testing and experimentation. You have proven successful executions of large scale applications with a deep understanding of technology, and solved challenging customer facing problems.

What you will accomplish:

Build and maintain eBay’s homepage/CMS backend engineering and machine learning stack

Translate requirements to software design and create clean, efficient, extensible, maintainable code.

Influencer across domain teams and inspiring others towards the right technical decisions.

Improves team productivity by identifying and evangelizing opportunities for productivity improvements.

Identifying areas in the team applications 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.

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, contribute and review ADRs (Architecture Decision Records), coaching, and mentorship to individual team members within and outside teams.

Identify gaps and issues across systems and functional areas, propose solutions, build the engineering roadmap, and drive resolution.

Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an "always-on" 24/7 site.

We’re a team that likes to move fast and iterate faster as we deliver the future of e-commerce. We have a reputation at eBay for being a highly capable, high performing team with incredible talent across the board. We only want to work with the best, and we’d love for you to join us.

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

$132,000 - $222,100

Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employees will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

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