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 team and the role:

We are in the process of expanding our engineering hub in Germany. Several new engineering positions are being opened within Shipping Domain in our Dreilinden office located in the greater Berlin area. We are looking for a Staff Back-end Engineer who will be part of the Global Shipping team and who can help us build exciting products at eBay.

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, we move fast, and stay curious.

You will be working on new experiences for millions of customers. You will lead the development of modern Java/Spring Boot based web applications by developing system designs, helping define the technical roadmap, guiding the team on all technical aspects, and implementing code. You will report to a Sr. Manager of engineering, as well as work closely with the wider engineering team of the new engineering hub.

It’s a unique opportunity to be part of a collaborative, transparent and highly technical team culture.

eBay requires employees to be present in the Dreilinden office three days per week.

What you will accomplish:

• Translate open product problem into a designed cross-component solution

• Contribute to the design and development of scalable, secure, and maintainable software solutions.

• Participate in architectural discussions to drive system-level decisions and innovative solutions.

• Create design documents and technical specifications for key projects.

• Break down the work into meaningful milestones and provisioning estimations

• Develop and maintain server-side applications using Java and SpringBoot.

• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code, following coding standards and guidelines.

• Conduct and participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and consistency.

• Work closely with product managers, and other engineers to deliver features and improvements.

• Develop and maintain unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.

• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and system issues

What you will bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar technical degree, with 9+ years of experience designing and developing highly scalable web applications.

• Proven experience building scalable backend systems with Java / Spring Boot.

• Experience building RESTful APIs and implementing microservices architectures.

• Proficiency in working with relational databases and/or NoSQL databases

• Basic understanding of modern UX frameworks like React.js

• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git), CI/CD pipelines and knowledge of Agile or Scrum methodologies

• Proficiency in writing and maintaining unit, integration, and end-to-end tests

• Having work experience with Kotlin and Prometheus Query Language is a plus

• eBay requires employees to be present in the Dreilinden office three days per week on average

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Additional Details

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