Backend Engineer, Tech Lead – Fashion

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About the Team

We are the Fashion Vertical Engineering team within eBay’s Global Focused Category Organization. Our work spans eBay’s most critical surfaces—including the Homepage, My eBay, Vertical Experiences, and high-impact Growth products.

We own the technology behind eBay’s Trust programs for luxury fashion, protecting multi-billion dollar annual GMV. Additionally, we drive zero-to-one initiatives that leverage innovative AI to transform personalized discovery and the upper-funnel shopping journey. You will partner with elite engineers, data scientists, and product leaders to build high-volume, resilient distributed systems on one of the world’s most visited platforms.

About the Role

We are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to serve as the Technical Lead for the Fashion Vertical team. In this high-impact role, you will provide the technical vision for our Trust business programs and AI-powered innovations.

As a Staff Lead, you won't just write code; you will drive establishment of E2E pipelines that manage sophisticated system behaviors across the entire e-commerce workflow. You will bridge the gap between domain partners, Science team and Product, owning the integration of advanced algos into scalable, personalized user experiences. We are looking for a self-motivated leader who thrives in agile environments and is committed to engineering excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Architectural Leadership: Translate complex business requirements into scalable software designs. Create clean, extensible, and maintainable codebases that serve as a standard for the organization.

• E2E Ownership: Drive the full software lifecycle for large-scale domains, ensuring excellence in design, development, testing, and 24/7 observability.

• Technical Influence: Act as a key decision-maker for the team’s technology stack, guiding peers and partners toward robust, future-proof technical solutions.

• Engineering Velocity: Identify areas of high volatility and design flexible systems to minimize technical debt and accelerate delivery speed.

• Strategic Collaboration: Partner with multi-functional leaders (Product, Design, Eng, Science) to define and implement innovative roadmaps that align with global business goals.

• Quality: Champion testable architectures and continuous delivery practices to ensure the highest levels of system reliability.

• Execution & Mentorship: Break down sophisticated projects into executable landmarks. Provide deep technical coaching, high-standard code reviews, and mentorship to elevate the engineering bar across the team.

• Systems Thinking: Proactively identify gaps across functional areas, propose long-term engineering roadmaps, and drive the resolution of systemic issues.

• Operational Excellence: Lead the strategy for E2E testing, release management, and on-call support for our "always-on" global platform.

Job Requirements

• 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)

• Outstanding ability to navigate technical trade-offs, making high-stakes decisions that balance immediate business needs with long-term architectural health.

• Strong sense of E2E ownership with the ability to align multi-functional teams and mentor junior engineers toward technical growth.

• Ability to think innovative and contribute to the success of the products, processes and customer experience

• Experience with recommendation system or data pipeline is a plus but not required

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in EE, CS or other related field.

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