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Backend Engineer
Location Toronto, CA (Hybrid)
Job Description
Responsibilities
Collaborate closely with peers, Architects, Product Managers, Business Analysts, Quality Engineers, and Operations teams to develop innovative solutions that meet functional and non-functional standards and expectations.
Be involved in development, testing, release, triage, bug fix, documentation and work in an Agile environment. Use of tools like JIRA, Git, CI/CD and other internal eBay tools on a regular basis to organize work and deliver features.
Evaluate and define storage needs and make technology recommendations, define domain services and interface definitions and testing architecture.
Design and build high-performing, reliable solutions for high-throughput, distributed systems using a variety of third-party and eBay internal libraries and frameworks
Participate in technical design and code reviews and provide feedback to other engineers on the team.
Estimate engineering efforts, roadmap planning and be responsible for operational processes, such as automation and controls, to help with efficiency and quality of both manual and technical operations.
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field plus 8+ years of experience in Java in building large-scale web based distributed systems.
Thorough understanding in computer science fundamentals, data structures and algorithms and extensive experience in building highly available, scalable and robust applications.
Excellent object-oriented design and coding skills in Java or other OO languages, hands-on experience using unit/integration test frameworks like Karate to build fully automated software applications
Solid understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, data storage/access patterns, caching techniques, messaging systems and asynchronous workflows
Experience with bug triaging and debugging techniques, logging and monitoring systems, application and query performance tuning
Good understanding of web services and SOA related standards like REST/OAuth/JSON
Familiarity with front end technologies and patterns is desirable
