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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.
(HYBRID - 2 days out of the week in office at our Toronto location)
Are you searching for a place that fuels passion, encourages bold ideas, and celebrates creativity? Do you want to help craft the future of global commerce and influence how millions of people buy, sell, connect, and share worldwide? At eBay, you’ll join a purposeful team committed to building an inclusive, results-focused workplace. This is more than just a job — it’s a chance to be part of something important and make a real impact. Come be proud of where you work.
About the team:
We are the Value Added Services(VAS) Platform team within the Buyer Experience organization, and we’re looking for a dedicated Backend Engineer to join us. Our platform processes billions of requests, supporting one of the world’s most visited and beloved websites. You’ll collaborate with an outstanding team of engineers, designers, product managers, and analysts to build scalable, high-impact solutions that directly enhance the buyer experience. If you're passionate about creating significant products at scale, we’d love to meet you.
Job Responsibilities
Develop features and services in highly scalable and reliable backend systems in a distributed system environment.
Able to translate product and design documents into clean, high-quality, well-tested and maintainable production code autonomously
Write test automations and practice continuous integration
Conduct code review for immediate team
Develop and maintain user documentation to support software applications.
Practices evidence-centered design making features testable, ensuring high quality and improving velocity in continuous delivery.
Accountable for multiple subsystems within a larger domain, taking full responsibility for their entire life cycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, observability and monitoring.
Propose and evaluate multiple design options, providing estimates for each.
Structure and complete tasks independently, meeting timelines and achievements.
Effectively communicate assumptions and seek clarification from partners, ensuring alignment and understanding across all domains.
Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an "always-on" 24/7 site.
Job Requirements
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or equivalent experience preferred with 4-6 years of hands on experience
Java, Python, distributed systems, cloud-related knowledge, REST, GraphQL
Strong programming skills with deep understanding of object-oriented concepts, design patterns, and a proven grasp of the software development lifecycle.
Strong learning ability, dedicated and passionate about new and innovative technologies within immediate field of expertise
Strong applied experience. You’ve built, broken, and rebuilt software applications
Must be able to work 2 days out of the week in office at our Toronto location
(HYBRID - 2 days out of the week in office at our Toronto location)
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