Java Backend Engineer

Backend Software Engineer Position
Location: Sunnyvale CA. (Hybrid)
Job Description

Looking for a company that inspires passion courage and creativity where you can be on the team shaping the future of global commerce Want to shape how millions of people buy sell connect and share around the world If youre interested in joining a purposedriven community that is dedicated to creating an ambitious and inclusive environment join eBay a company you can be proud to be a part of.

Advertising is one of the fastest growing areas in eBay which in some ways will define the future of eBay. As they shift budget from the duopoly of Google and Facebook it creates a huge opportunity for eBay. Advertising is also amplifying eBays ecommerce by providing a tool for our sellers to move inventory and for buyers by surfacing high quality items.

This team focuses on building data / ML services for our advertiser sellers and guides them to advertise their inventory outside eBay across multiple channels. You are going to help our sellers by guiding them to optimize their budget cpc and listing selections for their campaigns and eventually creating campaigns automatically for advertisers. This is a relatively new area but with a very high business potential. It would allow you to work with massive amounts of data and use a variety of data science techniques.

Come and help us blow away the boundaries of ecommerce through technology!

Responsibilities:

• Work with data scientists engineers and multifunctional teams to produce endtoend productionready solutions.
• Work on Big Data to produce actionable insights.
• Develop solutions for large scale problems in eBay.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other team members.
• Build quick prototypes and do preliminary explorations to decide on feasibility and direction
  

Requirements:

• MS or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 6 10 years of experience designing & developing highly scalable distributed platforms and services and internet scale web applications.
• Expert and handson experiences in Java/J2EE SOAP SOA Services Design Patterns OOA/D Data Structures REST JSON and Internet Protocols.
• Strong Proficiency in a programming language such as Java and / or Scala with strong foundation in data structures algorithms and a strong understanding of multithreading synchronization concurrent programming.
• Deep architectural understanding of system design and lead projects to completion.
• Handson experience of relational database and/or noSQL data technologies (Mongo Cansandra Couchbase) and related toolset.
• Experience with large data sets and related Big Data technologies e.g. Hadoop/Spark/Hive
• Experience in Streaming technologies i.e. Kafka.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum.
• Strong analytical skills and datadriven decisionmaking.
• Agility to adapt to emerging challenges and execute under ambiguity.
• Strong communication skills
• Selfdrive and your ability to independently work on projects.
• Prior experience in the Ads industry is a plus.