eBay
Senior Backend Engineer - SE3
Toronto · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 18 days ago
JavaSpringDistributed SystemsCode ReviewSQLNoSQLGraphQLRESTAccessibilityElectrical EngineeringCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- The eBay Auctions engineering team is on a multi-year journey to modernize one of eBay's most iconic commerce experiences: auctions.
- This role sits at the heart of that transformation.
- This is a latency-sensitive, large-scale commerce platform where correctness, resiliency, scalability, and customer trust are critical.
Responsibilities
- Build and operate scalable, low-latency backend systems that power eBay's next-generation auctions platform.
- Own features and services end to end, from design through launch, observability, and production support.
- Collaborate across engineering, product, design, and analytics to deliver high-impact customer outcomes.
- Raise the engineering bar through code reviews, technical documentation, mentoring, and thoughtful design discussions.
- 4+ years of software engineering experience building backend or distributed systems.
- Strong ownership and ability to independently drive projects from idea to production.
- A customer-focused mindset and a bias for improving how the team builds, tests, ships, and supports software.
Requirements
- Strong experience with Java, Spring/Spring Boot, REST or GraphQL APIs, messaging systems, and SQL or NoSQL data stores.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with GraphQL is preferred.
- Experience with event-driven systems, stateful platforms, or real-time systems is a plus.
- Experience improving development velocity through AI-assisted engineering practices is a plus.
- A mission with real impact.
- You'll help modernize one of eBay's most iconic commerce experiences and shape how millions of buyers and sellers participate in real-time auctions around the world.
- A meaningful platform challenge.
- You'll work on a distributed, latency-sensitive backend platform where architecture, correctness, performance, and customer trust all matter.
Compensation
- Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, skills, and experience.
- C$118,000 - C$157,500
- The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including RRSP eligibility, various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave).
Benefits
- Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability, or other legally protected status.
Company info
- Our mission is to bring the thrill of the game back to auction by building a real-time, trusted, and scalable platform that powers curated discovery, vibrant community, and fair bid play - where each item's true market value can win out.
- You will help build and evolve eBay's next-generation auctions platform, a real-time, highly available backend system that powers both eBay Live Auctions and traditional auction experiences.
- We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who brings strong ownership, solid distributed-systems knowledge, customer empathy, and a passion for improving how teams deliver.
- You will independently drive meaningful projects end to end, collaborate across teams, challenge assumptions respectfully, and help the team increase engineering velocity through better design, testing, automation, observability, and thoughtful AI adoption.
- Sound technical judgment, clear communication, and the ability to respectfully challenge assumptions.
- At eBay, we're more than a global ecommerce leader - we're changing the way the world shops and sells.
Equal opportunity
- eBay is an equal opportunity employer.
- If you have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at talent@ebay.com.
- We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible.
This listing is sourced directly from eBay's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.