Senior Software Backend Engineer

Location: Bengaluru, India

Category: Engineering

About the Role

As a Senior Backend Engineer at eBay in Bengaluru, you will drive the design, development, and operation of scalable backend services powering eBay's global ecommerce marketplace, connecting millions of buyers and sellers across 190+ markets. Leverage advanced Java/Kotlin expertise (with NodeJS preferred) to lead key features, own functional domains, and ensure high availability for business-critical systems handling high-volume transactions, auctions, and personalized shopping experiences. Champion SOLID principles, multithreading, and data modeling to build robust, performant APIs that reinvent ecommerce for enthusiasts worldwide. In this autonomous role, you will set technical standards, mentor teams, and collaborate cross-functionally with Product and Design to deliver measurable business impact, such as enhanced search, recommendations, and seller tools. Proactively manage production observability, incident response, and CI/CD evolution while influencing architecture decisions that scale eBay's platform sustainably. Your ownership will directly contribute to economic opportunities and community-building in the world's leading online marketplace. Join eBay's passionate engineering team in India to push boundaries in ecommerce technology, fostering authenticity, bold innovation, and inclusivity. With deep expertise in backend engineering, you will help sustain the future of customers, the company, and the planet through reliable, secure, and efficient systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and launch of key backend features and subsystems for eBay's ecommerce platform with high autonomy
• Drive technical standards and best practices in security, scalability, reliability, and performance for marketplace services
• Own entire functional areas, mapping complex ecommerce business problems to robust production solutions
• Express technical risks, trade-offs, and influence design and product decisions at team and cross-team levels
• Ensure production ramp-up, observability, and operational readiness; proactively resolve system-wide issues
• Lead code reviews, technical discussions, and mentorship for junior engineers
• Design and implement APIs, data models, and end-to-end testing for buyer-seller features
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and partner teams to deliver features impacting ecommerce outcomes
• Take ownership of incident response and production support for functional domains
• Contribute to architecture evolution, refactoring, CI/CD improvements, and developer productivity
• Champion engineering excellence in eBay's global platform serving 190+ markets

Required Qualifications

• Advanced proficiency in Java or Kotlin
• 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience including leadership in feature areas or subsystems
• Demonstrated mastery of SOLID principles, OOP, multithreading, and data modeling
• Deep experience with system design, architectural decision-making, and trade-off analysis
• Proven track record of technical ownership of entire features or domains
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Strong skills in unit test coverage, CI/CD best practices, code reviews, and documentation
• Experience in scoping and splitting large project deliverables into actionable tasks

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or Elasticsearch
• Comfortable with AWS, infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi, Terraform)
• Experience with feature flag systems and modern DevOps practices
• Experience in service and API observability, incident response, and monitoring techniques
• Strong NodeJS implementation experience
• Proficiency in e-commerce backend systems for high-scale marketplaces

Required Skills

• Java or Kotlin (advanced)
• NodeJS (strong proficiency preferred)
• SOLID design principles
• Object-oriented programming (OOP)
• Multithreading
• Data modeling
• System design and architecture
• API design and implementation
• Unit testing and test-driven development
• CI/CD pipelines
• Debugging and troubleshooting
• Observability and monitoring
• AWS cloud services
• Technical leadership and mentorship
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Incident response and production support
• Risk assessment and trade-off analysis
• Documentation and code review

Benefits & Perks

• Comprehensive health insurance and wellness programs
• Equity grants and employee stock purchase plans
• Flexible work arrangements including hybrid options in Bengaluru
• Generous paid time off and parental leave
• Professional development stipend and learning opportunities
• Retirement savings plans with company matching
• Employee discounts on eBay marketplace purchases
• Global mobility programs and relocation support
• Sustainability initiatives and volunteer time off

eBay Inc. is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.