eBay Senior Level Jobs UK
Job Name:- Senior Software Engineer
Hiring Organization: eBay
Educational Requirements: Bachelor Degree
Salary: £30 – £40/Hour
Location: United Kingdom
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About eBay
Looking for a company where you can shape how the world buys, sells, and gives? Where you’ll be supported in challenging convention, taking risks, and innovating? Where you’ll be part of a work culture that’s been genuinely committed to diversity and inclusion since its founding more than 20 years ago? Where you can just be yourself, do your best work, and have a meaningful impact? If so, we’d love to talk to you. eBay Senior Level Jobs UK
About the role
Every day, millions of users sell and ship their wares using eBay. Our team supports this diverse community by building shipping products around the globe, helping individual sellers and small businesses to meet the growing expectations of online buyers. We are a product-oriented team who move fast and stay curious. Join us to make an impact on one of the world’s largest e-commerce websites. eBay Senior Level Jobs UK
The team is a backend team building internal and external APIs, enterprise distributed systems, services. Our teams operate a DevOps philosophy. You, together with the rest of your team, support in production what you build. We value delivery to production, getting data/feedback from production and using this data to drive further improvements and features. We release continuously to production, multiple times a day.
Your responsibilities in this role include, but are not limited to:
- Consistently delivering against the product and engineering backlogs.
- Architecting solutions that are secure, maintainable, extensible and can meet the demands of eBay’s scale
- Supporting our applications in production, including setting up & maintaining logging, monitoring and alerting.
- Lead and mentor team on the best engineering and architectural patterns and practices.
- Pair programming, reviewing pull request and giving constructive feedback.
- Contributing to the definition of features for services owned by your team
- Continuously improving yourself and your team by suggesting and helping implement new Engineering tools, processes and practices
- Effectively communicating your and your team’s progress to your team members, your manager and wider eBay colleagues.
Requirements
To be considered for this role, you must have significant commercial experience and a passion for working in:
- Java
- Kotlin
- Spring
- developing and using enterprise APIs
and commercial experience with:
- SQL and NoSQL databases
- Containerisation
- and working in a continuous delivery environment
Nice to have
Not vital, but you’ll have the edge if you also have experience with:
- Prometheus Query Language (PromQL)
- Grafana
- Prometheus
or have worked in:
- an eCommerce organisation
- a shipping/logistics/exports organisation
What you bring
- Agile: Test-Driven Development, collaboration and continuous delivery are your preferred engineering practices? We take the best bits of Lean, Scrum and Kanban too.
- Architecture: In a large scale distributed web-application, you choose the right tool for the job at hand. You know when to break something out into a new component and the best way to wire it in, when to go with the simplest fit into the current system and when to rethink the existing approach. eBay Senior Level Jobs UK
- Experience: You are an experienced engineer, with several years working at a high level, confident working on a range of languages and frameworks and are happy to pick up new ones. You like working on established technology stacks as well as quickly changing platforms.
What we bring
- Rewarding technical challenges – fixing eCommerce delivery requires solving difficult technical problems: building unified shipping platforms for diverse customers, iterating fast while providing the best customer experience, constantly improving our technology while dealing with the eBay volume is what we do best.
- Wonderful, bright, air-conditioned offices in Shoreditch, with bike racks (and shower!), right next to Liverpool St and Shoreditch High Street stations for super easy commuting, and lots of great food options nearby. When we’re in the office, a light breakfast and lunch is provided, and a weekly massage. eBay Senior Level Jobs UK
- Great company culture – we have a culture of respect and high expectations of others. We love sharing a drink during our Friday All Hands, play board games and enjoy free lunch on our demo day.
- Hybrid working – really great support when working from home (we’ve got good video conferencing facilities).
- Competitive salary and generous benefits.
Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary, eBay UK benefits include:
- 25 days paid time off – increasing to 27 after two years, and an additional day each year up to a maximum of 30
- Sabbatical for 4 weeks after five years
- 20 weeks paid leave for birth parents, 12 weeks leave for non-birth parents (fathers, adoptive parents, surrogacy)
- Private health insurance, dental and eye care
- Life and disability insurance
- Employee stock purchase plan (15% discount) and Restricted Stock Unit (RSUs) grant
- Employer contributed pension up to 9%
Benefits are an essential part of your total compensation for the work you do every day. Whether you’re single, in a growing family, or nearing retirement, eBay offers a variety of comprehensive and competitive benefit programs to meet your needs. Including maternal & paternal leave, paid sabbatical, and plans to help ensure your financial security today and in the years ahead because we know feeling financially secure during your working years and through retirement is important. eBay Senior Level Jobs UK
Here at eBay, we love creating opportunities for others by connecting people from widely diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and geographies. So, being diverse and inclusive isn’t just something we strive for, it is who we are, and part of what we do each and every single day. We want to ensure that as an employee, you feel eBay is a place where, no matter who you are, you feel safe, included, and that you have the opportunity to bring your unique self to work.
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