Backend Engineer (SE3)
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About the team:
We are the Fashion and valuable services team in the Buyer Experience Organization. Our team is looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to work on our core strategic offerings within the fashion focused category initiative and value added services platform where you will be working on delivering curated experiences that delight our fashion customers. You'll be working with a world class team of engineers, designers, product managers, and analysts to create great products that make a difference on one of the world's most visited and loved websites!
Do you want to make an impact on the world's largest e-commerce website? Are you interested in building performance efficient, high-volume, highly scalable and resilient distributed systems? We have a place for you!
About the Role:
We are looking for a strong backend engineer to work in the fashion and beneficial services team, who is responsible for handling Buyer experience in the eBay marketplace. As a self-motivated and enthusiastic member of our team, you will work with extremely hardworking peers in a fun environment. You will work in an agile environment with a focus on problem solving and engineering finesse.
Job Responsibilities
Define, design, and implement highly scalable, resilient and performant distributed systems
Work throughout all phases of the software development process independently as well as work jointly with other team members
Collaborate with architects, product management, engineering, and Operations teams to develop innovative solutions consistency to development goals and principles
Produce clear, well-documented design docs, and participate in design and code reviews
Strictly follow Definition of Done (DoD) process for better quality by maintaining over 80% unit test coverage and other release criteria standards
Responsible for leading engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an always-on 24x7 site
Job Requirements
6+ years of software design and development experience, solid foundation in computer science with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, OOPs, and OOA/D
4+ years of experience in software development using Java, SOAP, RESTful Web Services. Experience with NodeJS is a major plus.
Strong experience in developing data-driven applications using an industry standard RDBMS, NoSQL, and ElasticSearch
Strong experience in designing, and building highly scalable and available back-end systems and services for large web sites
Proven results-oriented person with a delivery focused in a fast paced and dynamic environment. Must demonstrate a sense of ownership to plan, implement and drive the product work to successful completion and be successful in a collaborative environment
Experience with agile development methodologies, Test Driven Development (TDD) and CI/CD
Ability to think innovative and contribute to the success of the products, processes and customer experience
Excellent decision-making, communication and collaboration skills
MUST BE LOCATED IN PORTLAND, OR.
Education:
MS + 4 years of experience or bachelor's degree (in Computer Science or Other Related 4yr Technical Degree) + 6 years of experience
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