Senior Software Backend Engineer

eBay

5 - 10 years

6 - 10 Lacs

bengaluru

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Skills Required

computer science multithreading production support data modeling coding postgresql debugging system design product design monitoring

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Job Type

Full Time

Job Description

Responsibilities

Lead design, development, and launch of key backend features and subsystems, operating with minimal supervision and high autonomy.
Drive technical standards and best practices by writing exemplary code and documentation, and advocating for engineering excellence in areas such as security, scalability, reliability, and performance.
Own an entire functional area, mapping complex business problems to robust production solutions.
Express technical risks, trade-offs, and influence design and product decisions at the team and cross-team levels.
Ensure ramp-up, observability, and operational readiness in production environments; proactively identify system-wide issues and drive resolution.
Lead code reviews, technical discussions, and mentorship, helping less experienced engineers grow and succeed.
Design and implement APIs, data models, and end-to-end testing approaches with a quality-first mindset.
Collaborate deeply with Product, Design, and partner engineering teams to refine requirements, drive alignment, and deliver features that measurably impact business outcomes.
Take ownership of incident response and production support for your functional domains, rapidly triaging and resolving technical issues.
Contribute to architecture evolution, refactoring initiatives, and improvements to deployment, CI/CD, and developer productivity.

Required Skills Experience

Advanced proficiency in Java or Kotlin; strong NodeJS implementation experience highly preferred.
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 (entire features/domains), quality delivery, and operational excellence.
Ability to scope and split large project deliverables into actionable tasks for self and others.
Maintains high standards in unit test coverage, CI/CD best practices, code reviews, and documentation.
Strong debugging, risk identification, and cross-team communication skills.
Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or equivalent degree.

Preferred Qualifications

Hands-on experience with databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or Elasticsearch.
Comfortable with AWS, infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi, Terraform), feature flag systems, and other modern DevOps practices.
Experience in service and API observability, incident response, and monitoring techniques.

Competencies

Technical Leadership: Sets and maintains high standards. Acts as a role model in coding, testing, and documentation.
Ownership Accountability: Takes charge of large functional domains, resolves technical issues, and ensures robust, timely delivery.
Business Product Impact: Understands business goals and delivers solutions that measurably advance product strategy.
Collaboration Influence: Works cross-functionally to achieve consensus, drive velocity, and improve engineering practices.
Mentorship: Contributes actively to team growth, onboarding, and skill development.
Continuous Improvement: Champions refactoring, tech debt reduction, and process advancements within and across teams.

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