[Remote] Senior MTS Backend Engineer - eBay Live

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. eBay is a global ecommerce leader that is changing the way the world shops and sells. The Senior MTS Backend Engineer will work on eBay Live, focusing on building shipping products and enhancing the live shopping experience for users. This role involves translating requirements into software design, managing project features, and providing technical guidance to team members.


Responsibilities

  • Translate requirements to software design and create clean, efficient, extensible, maintainable code
  • 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, coaching, and mentorship to individual team members
  • Identify gaps and issues across systems and functional areas, propose solutions, build the engineering roadmap, and drive resolution
  • Leads and improves E2E testing quality and increases delivery velocity across features
  • Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an 'always-on' 24/7 site
  • Responsible for sub-systems within a large domain, possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise. Taking full responsibility for the entire software life cycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, observability and monitoring
  • Serve as a key player in influencing and guiding others towards the right technical decisions
  • Identifying areas of features 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

Skills

  • Bachelor's degree in EE, CS or other related field
  • 6+ years of experience in working in Java, GraphQL, Spring/Springboot, REST APIs, messaging systems and/or other backend programming languages
  • Building data-driven applications (RDBMS, NoSQL, ElasticSearch)
  • Delivers results in fast-paced environments (agile, TDD, CI/CD)
  • Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and analytical skills
  • Excellent communication skills to collaborate across teams
  • Deep understanding of software development processes and standard methodologies, modern DevOps principles and continuous delivery
  • Proven experience in building large, reliable, scalable distributed systems
  • Work closely w/ colleagues and customers in different functional groups and remote offices
  • Familiarity with shift left approach is a plus
  • Past experience with Live Commerce or Live Streaming System is a big plus
  • Experience on WebSocket is a big plus

Benefits

  • Target bonus
  • Restricted stock units
  • Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
  • 401(k) eligibility
  • Various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave

Company Overview

  • eBay is a global online marketplace enabling users to buy, sell, and auction new or used items across various categories. It was founded in 1995, and is headquartered in San Jose, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is

  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • eBay has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 572 in 2025, 883 in 2024, 779 in 2023, 682 in 2022, 748 in 2021, 766 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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