Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. eBay is a global ecommerce leader transforming the shopping experience through innovative platforms. They are seeking a Senior MTS Backend Engineer to lead complex technical initiatives and drive the development of eBay Live, their new live shopping platform.

Responsibilities

• Independently lead complex technical initiatives within and beyond your team
• Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an 'always-on' 24/7 site
• Drive technical direction and roadmap, leads across domain teams and guides others towards the right technical decisions
• Authors ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) that serves as blueprint or a proposed solution for a given technical problem and influences overall tech strategy
• Responsible for one or more large functional areas possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise
• Demonstrate strong systems mindset, go beyond immediate needs, proactively addressing performance, security, and future-proofing solutions
• Take ownership of complex projects, driving them from conception to successful implementation
• Change agency to set high bar and uplevel across teams on culture, process and engineering practices. Empower teams through effective collaboration, knowledge sharing, and tool building
• Identifying areas in the company platforms likely to change and integrating flexibility in the design for these area improving engineering velocity
• Long term technology vision to continually modernize and keep systems relevant in constantly changing environments

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in EE, CS or other related field
• 10+ years of experience in building large scale, distributed web platforms/APIs with 5+ years as an architect/technical lead responsible for the end to end product scope across multiple domains
• Experience in creating and driving technical strategy and roadmap across multiple domains
• Balanced trade-offs to ship scalable solutions supporting long-term goals
• Successfully forge alignments with key stakeholders on significant architecture decisions and technical direction for ambiguous problem areas through Architectural Decision Records (ADR)
• Developed and drove adoption of technical practices that improved team velocity to deliver high-quality code across the organization
• Solid knowledge in end to end system design involving GraphQL/Rest APIs, Messaging Systems, RDBMS/NOSQL, Containers, Infrastructure layer, with deep knowledge in several key components
• Experiences in leading complex technical initiatives across teams independently from inception to successful delivery
• Experience in GraphQL is preferable

Benefits

• Target bonus
• Restricted stock units (as applicable)
• 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)
• Flexible Working - Enjoy exceptional support for remote work, allowing you to balance your professional and personal life seamlessly.

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