Staff Software Engineer, Marketing Tech

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Staff Software Engineer, Marketing Tech
Join eBay’s Advertising and Marketing Technology teams. Help build platforms, services, and user experiences that support sellers rapidly growing their business. Make eBay the destination website for existing and new customers. You’ll work on high-scale systems spanning frontend applications, backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and AI-assisted engineering workflows, partnering closely with product, design, analytics, and applied science. We’re looking for engineers who can turn business problems into reliable, maintainable software, make so
About the team and the role
Join eBay’s Advertising and Marketing Technology teams and help build the platforms, services, and user experiences that support sellers and advertisers in growing their business. This role sits within a high-scale engineering environment spanning frontend applications, backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and AI-assisted engineering workflows. You will partner closely with product, design, analytics, and applied science teams to turn business problems into reliable, maintainable software that delivers measurable customer and seller impact.
This is a strong fit for an engineer who enjoys solving practical engineering problems in a fast-moving environment, making sound technical tradeoffs, and taking ownership from design through production.
What you will accomplish
Build innovative advertising and marketing technology capabilities that help eBay sellers and advertisers grow their business and strengthen eBay’s customer experience.
Develop scalable, highly available applications, APIs, and services across modern backend technologies including Java, and Scala.
Own end-to-end delivery of complex features, from technical design and architecture through deployment, production support, and continuous improvement.
Drive technical decisions and system design in partnership with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions.
Use AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering velocity across coding, debugging, testing, and code review, while partnering with ML engineers on AI-powered marketing and advertising capabilities.
Contribute to a culture of continuous learning, agile delivery, technical excellence, and mentoring across the engineering organization.
What you will bring
BS/BA in Computer Science or a related field plus 8+ years of experience, or an MS plus 6+ years of relevant experience.
Strong experience in Java (17+) and building services with Spring Boot or similar frameworks, along with a track record of building scalable backend systems and RESTful APIs.
Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and message queues such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar technologies.
Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases, including schema design and query optimization; familiarity with big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, or Flink is valuable.
Proven ability to lead end-to-end system design, write technical design documents, guide design reviews, and evaluate tradeoffs across scalability, availability, latency, and cost.
Experience with AI-assisted development practices and tools; exposure to GraphQL, federated APIs, LLM-powered features, agentic workflows, or open-source contributions is a plus.
und technical tradeoffs, and take ownership from design through production. This role is a strong fit for someone who enjoys solving practical engineering problems in a fast-moving environment where performance, quality, and measurable customer impact matter.
Job Responsibilities:
Design and build innovative advertising, marketing platform features that help eBay sellers, advertisers grow their business and help eBay become the dominant eCommerce platform.
Develop scalable, highly available applications, APIs, and services using technologies such as Marko, React, Node.js, Java, and Scala.
Own end-to-end delivery of complex features, from technical design and architecture through deployment and production support.
Drive technical decisions, system design, and cross-team collaboration to ensure scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions.
Leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) throughout the development lifecycle for coding, debugging, testing, and code review to increase engineering velocity.
Contribute to AI-powered advertising and marketing features by collaborating with ML engineers on LLM integrations, recommendation systems, and intelligent campaign optimization.
Contribute to a culture of continuous learning, Agile development, open-source collaboration, and rapid software delivery.
Mentor team members, participate in technical discussions, and help shape engineering best practices across the organisation.
Job Requirements:
BS/BA in Computer Science or related field plus 8+ years work experience or MS with 6+ years of relevant experience.
Strong experience in Java (17+) and building services with Spring Boot or similar frameworks.
Experience building scalable backend systems and RESTful APIs in distributed environments.
Experience with event-driven architectures and message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar).
Experience with relational (Oracle/Postgres/MySQL) and/or NoSQL (Cassandra/MongoDB) databases, including schema design and query optimization.
Familiar with Big Data stack (Hadoop, Spark, Flink etc).
Proven ability to own end-to-end system design: writing technical design documents, leading design reviews, and making architectural decisions for multi-service features.
Experience designing scalable distributed systems with a track record of evaluating trade-offs. (consistency, availability, latency, cost) and driving technical alignment across teams.
Experience with AI-assisted development practices and tools to increase engineering productivity (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or equivalent).
Experience building or integrating LLM-powered features, agentic workflows, or automation based on artificial intelligence in production systems would be advantageous.
Strong ownership mentality with ability to drive work end-to-end in a collaborative environment.
Exposure to GraphQL and experience in building Federated GraphQL APIs is highly desirable.
Experience on contributing to open-source is a plus.
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.
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