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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Backend Engineer (MTS 2) - **Company:** eBay - **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $196,800.0 - $262,700.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Code Review, Continuous Delivery, Software Engineering, Alwayson, Programming Languages - **Published:** June 27, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/9af999dc-f52e-4c5e-9226-251496797756 ## About the Role * Excellent decision-making skills, thrive on dealing with ambiguities and changes. * Strong sense of ownership and communication skills , embrace diverse ideas across the organization and align in 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., * Bachelor's degree in EE, CS or other related field. * 8+ years of experience with proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks, with deep mastery in one or two specific languages/framework * Experience in proposing and influencing technical strategy & roadmap, balancing short/long term wins is preferable * Designs and builds scalable, distributed and high-available systems, ensuring high-performant, responsive website and accessibility. * Familiarity with shift left approach is a plus * Experience taking a lead role delivering complex software systems ## Description * Translate requirements to software design and create clean, efficient, extensible, maintainable code. * Responsible for a large functional area possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise. * Influencer across domain teams and guiding others towards the right technical decisions. * Improves team productivity by identifying and evangelizing opportunities for productivity improvements. * Identifying areas in the team applications 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. * 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, contribute and review ADRs (Architecture Decison Records), coaching, and mentorship to individual team members within and outside teams. * Identify gaps and issues across systems and functional areas, propose solutions, build the engineering roadmap, and drive resolution. * Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an "always-on" 24/7 site. ## Related Videos - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Are Code Reviews Worth It? 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