Sr. Software Engineer, Backend - Ads

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Our customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work — every day. We're in this together, sustaining the future of our customers, our company, and our planet.

Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.

About the team and the role:

The Advertising Team is reinventing advertising at eBay! We’re creating innovative ad-tech solutions to optimize the ad monetization and experience on eBay. Our goal is to create a valuable experience for both buyers and sellers, while also driving performance for advertisers. To that end, we are innovating rapidly in the ad-tech space and there is no shortage of new challenges for motivated individuals.

The team builds and manages mission critical systems at a scale and complexity that is very unique. eBay’s ad products serve 190 million buyers worldwide, and deal with 50 Billion daily events across various stacks.

Read about some of our products and recent work here:

• https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/listing-and-marketing/promoted-listings.html

• http://www.ebayadvertising.com/

As a Sr Software Engineer, you will work closely with designers, product managers and other engineers (frontend, backend, machine learning, quality) to revolutionize the advertising space for eBay and beyond. Prior work knowledge of click fraud or security systems will have added advantage in this role.

What you will accomplish:

• Design elegant technical solutions to customer problems

• Design new experiences for eBay sellers and advertisers to promote their products, manage their advertising campaigns, and improve their sales

• Build highly available, scalable user facing applications and RESTful Public APIs in an Agile environment

• Develop systems using Java and Scala and maintain a cadence of building, testing, and deploying your code in a continuous manner.

• Learn new external and internal technologies as the need/opportunity arises

• Operate within our internal open source community where we share a variety of projects and codebases and share knowledge with the team, filling in any technical gaps and contributing to technical conversations

What you will bring:

• BS/BA in Computer Science or related field plus 4 years work experience OR MS with 3 years of relevant experience

• Experience with JVM languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala), Hadoop and/or NodeJS

• Experience in building large scale Web Services and Backend Applications using Java/J2EE, RESTful Web Services, HTTP and JSON technologies

• Deep understanding of design patterns, and experience working in a layered architecture

• Knowledge of core CS concepts such as common data structures and algorithms

• Experience in interacting with external partners and architecting the systems

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment in California, Washington, or New York is expected in the range below.

$114,800 - $176,550

Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, skills, and experience. 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 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employees will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

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