Staff Software Engineer, Caramel

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About the team:
Caramel,  now part of eBay, is a digital platform designed to simplify and secure private car sales. We are the trusted intermediary between buyers and sellers, handling all the complexities of: paperwork, title transfer, secure payments, and optional services like financing, insurance, transportation, and vehicle protection. Caramel is compatible with any private sale, meaning buyers can find a car anywhere, and sellers can advertise their car for sale anywhere, then use Caramel to complete the transaction.

The platform ensures safety through multiple layers of identity verification, including biometric authentication, and it even holds funds in escrow to protect both parties.
 

The Engineering team at Caramel is responsible for growing and maintaining the technical platform for DriveCaramel vehicle checkout, including partner marketplace experiences for eBay, BringATrailer, Cars.com and others. We are continuing to optimize our user experiences and grow our marketplace partners, with a focus on automating our operational processes. We are defining the next generation of our platform focused on providing a scalable, highly performant product that’s also maintainable and easy to adapt to growing user and partner needs.

​About the role:

We are looking for an experienced full stack Staff Software Engineer to collaborate with our team of down to earth engineers to deliver features and improvements to our users. This position will take ownership of our Terraform-based IaC codebase for our AWS infrastructure. They will work closely with eBay’s security group to improve our security posture as well as act as the primary interface for any security events. This role will also help drive improvements in our development process to ensure effective enablement of all engineers contributing to our codebase, while driving technical and quality standards to ensure our work scales optimally.
 

Responsibilities:

• Improve and implement DevOps practices, ensuring the platform is robust, scalable, and maintainable

• Identity, respond to and remediate Security issues impacting our users or business

• Iterate and scale our TypeScript-based Express API running on AWS Lambda and RDS as well as our Nuxt web client to handle increasing traffic and growing business demands

• Drive discovery and solution alignment by evaluating technical options, proposing the best approach, and executing a development plan

• Lead cross-team initiatives, collaborating with engineering, product, and other stakeholders to establish best practices and architectural standards

• Own the full software development lifecycle, from technical design and implementation to deployment and monitoring

• Develop domain expertise in product capabilities such as Identity Verification and Vehicle Transport, and apply that to solving technical and product challenges
   

The Team You'll Join

You'll be part of a small, collaborative remote-first team with significant autonomy and ownership of the Caramel platform within the broader eBay organization. We're expanding our engineering group and looking for people who will:

• Take ownership of their technical domain while collaborating extensively with teammates, business team members and external partners

• Balance immediate business needs with long-term technical sustainability

• Approach challenging problems with creativity and pragmatism

• Contribute to a supportive, inclusive engineering culture
   

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or a related field, or a combination of education and experience and 8 or more years of software design and relevant experience

• Expertise in building large scale distributed systems and using open source technologies

• Excellent knowledge in practicing OOAD, architectural and design patterns, open-source platforms, frameworks, technologies, and software engineering methodologies

• Hands-on experience in Javascript, Web technologies, RESTful Services, Design Patterns, Databases

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

$132,000 - $222,100

Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employees will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

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