Backend Developer jobs in United States, California, San Diego

• Translate requirements to software design and create clean, efficient, extensible, maintainable code.

• Practices evidence-centered design making features testable, ensuring high quality and improving velocity in continuous delivery.

• Manage project features, break into sub-tasks, identify and resolve issues for efficient execution.

• Provide technical guidance, code review for immediate team and other teams, coaching, and mentorship to individual team members.

• Identify gaps and issues across systems and functional areas, propose solutions, build the engineering roadmap, and drive resolution.

• Leads and improves E2E testing quality and increases delivery velocity across features.

• Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an "always-on" 24/7 site.

• Responsible for sub-systems within a large domain, possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise. Taking full responsibility for the entire software life cycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, observability and monitoring.

• Serve as a key player in influencing and guiding others towards the right technical decisions.

• Identifying areas of features likely to change and integrating flexibility in the design for these areas improving engineering velocity.

• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners to develop innovative solutions that adhere to development goals and principles.

• Innovative, team player, excellent communication and decision-making

• Strong sense of ownership and interpersonal skills to work effectively across teams

• Strong learning ability, self-driven

• Excited about new and innovative technologies within immediate field of expertise

• Attending knowledge sharing sessions, both within the company and externally

• Learning transferable skills

• Dive into the heart of eCommerce innovation at Buyer Experiences, where we’re transforming eBay's shopping journey. By focusing on simplification, personalization, and modernization, we aim to build world-class buyer and seller experiences on eBay marketplaces with creativity and passion. Utilizing cutting-edge technologies like Generative AI, you'll tackle complex challenges that directly improve the shopping experience for millions of eBay users everyday.

• Vibrant Culture - At Buyer Experiences, our strength lies in our diversity, transparency, and collaborative spirit. Our open culture ensures every voice is valued and heard. We celebrate our successes together and approach each challenge as an opportunity for collective growth. Be a part of a dynamic community that not only values your expertise but is also committed to your personal and professional growth.

• Flexible Working - Enjoy exceptional support for remote work, allowing you to balance your professional and personal life seamlessly.

• Competitive Compensation and Benefit - No matter where you are in the world, eBay supports your health and wellbeing with benefits as unique as you. Explore the benefits that help you be your best self. Check out our benefits here:

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

• 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)

• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and analytical skills.

• Excellent communication skills to collaborate across teams.

• Deep understanding of software development processes and standard methodologies, modern DevOps principles and continuous delivery

• Proven experience in building large, reliable, scalable distributed systems

• Work closely w/ colleagues and customers in different functional groups and remote offices

• Familiarity with shift left approach is a plus

• Past experience with Live Commerce or Live Streaming System is a big plus

• Experience on WebSocket is a big plus

$166,400 - $222,100

$115,200 - $199,700

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

What you'll do and learn:

• Independently lead complex technical initiatives within and beyond your team.

• Drive technical direction and roadmap, leads across domain teams and guides others towards the right technical decisions.

• Authors ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) that serves as blueprint or a proposed solution for a given technical problem and influences overall tech strategy

• Responsible for one or more large functional areas possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise.

• Demonstrate strong systems mindset, go beyond immediate needs, proactively addressing performance, security, and future-proofing solutions.

• Take ownership of complex projects, driving them from conception to successful implementation.

• Change agency to set high bar and uplevel across teams on culture, process and engineering practices. Empower teams through effective collaboration, knowledge sharing, and tool building.

• Identifying areas in the company platforms likely to change and integrating flexibility in the design for these area improving engineering velocity

• Long term technology vision to continually modernize and keep systems relevant in constantly changing environments

• Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an "always-on" 24/7 site.

What you bring:

• Excellent decision-making skills, thrive on dealing with ambiguities and changes.

• Strong sense of ownership and communication skills , embrace diverse ideas across organization and align on a mutually agreed direction to get things done and move forward.

• Deeply care about growing others, great at mentoring and coaching, creating a large positive impact on organizational culture.

• Strong learning ability, self-driven

• Attending knowledge sharing sessions, both within the company and externally

• Learning transferable skills

• Growth mindset and constantly looking for opportunities to learn

• Learns adjacent areas (project management, people management, product management) in addition to core technical skills to better support the organization

What we bring:

• Exciting Product Mission with Impactful Technical Challenges - Dive into the heart of eCommerce innovation at Buyer Experiences, where we’re transforming eBay's shopping journey. By focusing on simplification, personalization, and modernization, we aim to build world-class buyer and seller experiences on eBay marketplaces with creativity and passion. Utilizing cutting-edge technologies like Generative AI, you'll tackle complex challenges that directly improve the shopping experience for millions of eBay users everyday.

• Vibrant Culture - At Buyer Experiences, our strength lies in our diversity, transparency, and collaborative spirit. Our open culture ensures every voice is valued and heard. We celebrate our successes together and approach each challenge as an opportunity for collective growth. Be a part of a dynamic community that not only values your expertise but is also committed to your personal and professional growth.

• Flexible Working - Enjoy exceptional support for remote work, allowing you to balance your professional and personal life seamlessly.

• Competitive Compensation and Benefit - No matter where you are in the world, eBay supports your health and wellbeing with benefits as unique as you. Explore the benefits that help you be your best self. Check out our benefits here: .

Qualifications:

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

• 10+ years of experience in building large scale, distributed web platforms/APIs with 5+ years as an architect/technical lead responsible for the end to end product scope across multiple domains.

• Experience in creating and driving technical strategy and roadmap across multiple domains. Balanced trade-offs to ship scalable solutions supporting long-term goals.

• Successfully forge alignments with key stakeholders on signficant architecture decisions and technical direction for ambiguous problem areas through Architectural Decision Records (ADR)

• Developed and drove adoption of technical practices that improved team velocity to deliver high-quality code across the organization.

• Solid knowledge in end to end system design involving GraphQL/Rest APIs, Messaging Systems, RDBMS/NOSQL, Containers, Infrastructure layer, with deep knowledge in several key components. Experience in GraphQL is preferable.

• Experiences in leading complex technical initiatives across teams independently from inception to successful delivery.

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

• Translate requirements to software design and create clean, efficient, extensible, maintainable code.

• Practices evidence-centered design making features testable, ensuring high quality and improving velocity in continuous delivery.

• Manage project features, break into sub-tasks, identify and resolve issues for efficient execution.

• Provide technical guidance, code review for immediate team and other teams, coaching, and mentorship to individual team members.

• Identify gaps and issues across systems and functional areas, propose solutions, build the engineering roadmap, and drive resolution.

• Leads and improves E2E testing quality and increases delivery velocity across features.

• Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an "always-on" 24/7 site.

• Responsible for sub-systems within a large domain, possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise. Taking full responsibility for the entire software life cycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, observability and monitoring.

• Serve as a key player in influencing and guiding others towards the right technical decisions.

• Identifying areas of features likely to change and integrating flexibility in the design for these areas improving engineering velocity.

• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners to develop innovative solutions that adhere to development goals and principles.

• Innovative, team player, excellent communication and decision-making

• Strong sense of ownership and interpersonal skills to work effectively across teams

• Strong learning ability, self-driven

• Excited about new and innovative technologies within immediate field of expertise

• Attending knowledge sharing sessions, both within the company and externally

• Learning transferable skills

• Dive into the heart of eCommerce innovation at Buyer Experiences, where we’re transforming eBay's shopping journey. By focusing on simplification, personalization, and modernization, we aim to build world-class buyer and seller experiences on eBay marketplaces with creativity and passion. Utilizing cutting-edge technologies like Generative AI, you'll tackle complex challenges that directly improve the shopping experience for millions of eBay users everyday.

• Vibrant Culture - At Buyer Experiences, our strength lies in our diversity, transparency, and collaborative spirit. Our open culture ensures every voice is valued and heard. We celebrate our successes together and approach each challenge as an opportunity for collective growth. Be a part of a dynamic community that not only values your expertise but is also committed to your personal and professional growth.

• Flexible Working - Enjoy exceptional support for remote work, allowing you to balance your professional and personal life seamlessly.

• Competitive Compensation and Benefit - No matter where you are in the world, eBay supports your health and wellbeing with benefits as unique as you. Explore the benefits that help you be your best self. Check out our benefits here: https://www.ebaybenefits.com/index.html.

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

• 10+ 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)

• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and analytical skills.

• Excellent communication skills to collaborate across teams.

• Deep understanding of software development processes and standard methodologies, modern DevOps principles and continuous delivery

• Proven experience in building large, reliable, scalable distributed systems

• Work closely w/ colleagues and customers in different functional groups and remote offices

• Familiarity with shift left approach is a plus

• Past experience with Live Commerce or Live Streaming System is a big plus

• Experience on WebSocket is a big plus

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

Essential Responsibilities:

• Performs SaaS and enterprise-wide applications assignments using specialized enterprise systems knowledge and developed business expertise
• Leads enterprise-wide applications projects and/or programs within PayPal with moderate scope impacting information technology or enterprise systems functions
• Analyzes, evaluates, and makes decisions within general parameters under broad supervision
• May act as an enterprise systems resource for entry level and developing colleagues

Expected Qualifications:

• 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

Essential Responsibilities:

• Implements tasks within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), receiving structure and oversight from more experienced staff

• Follows well-established internal conventions and standard procedures

• Understands internal standards & processes an applies them to make technical decisions

• Collaborates with peers, manager, and project lead to gain understanding of tasks and review solutions

• May contribute to code & design reviews

Expected Qualifications:

• Minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Additional Qualifications:

• Strong foundation in programming concepts and data structures.

• Experience with backend development using Python and frameworks such as Django or Flask.

• Understanding of web services and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles.

• Familiarity with databases (SQL and/or NoSQL).

• Exposure to version control systems (e.g., Git) and collaborative development workflows.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Interest in large-scale, high-performance distributed systems.

• Awareness of the payment processing industry and related compliance or regulatory standards.

• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• Contributions to open-source projects or participation in developer communities.

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

The US national annual pay range for this role is $143,500 to $243,500

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please