Sr. MTS, Software Engineer

At eBay, we're more than a global ecommerce leader — we’re changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We’re committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts.

Our customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work — every day. We're in this together, sustaining the future of our customers, our company, and our planet.

Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.

Who Are We?

We are seeking a hard-working Senior Software Engineer to join our Compliance Engineering Development team as an architect. In this key role, you will help ensure that the eBay marketplace operates in full alignment with all relevant regulatory requirements. As a dedicated and enthusiastic team member, you’ll collaborate with dedicated and hardworking peers in a dynamic and enjoyable environment, building exceptional compliance products. You will thrive in an agile setting that values problem-solving, innovation, and engineering perfection.

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 attitude, 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 by nurturing effective collaboration and tool building.

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

Long term technology vision to continually modernize and keep systems relevant in constantly evolving 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 organizations 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, determined

Participating in learning opportunities, 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 - To ensure that all products, systems, and operations consistently meet regulatory, safety, and quality standards by integrating compliance principles into the engineering lifecycle. We are committed to enabling innovation while minimizing risk, fostering ethical practices, and protecting customers, the organization, and the environment., 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 every day.

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.

12+ 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 significant 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 of inception to successful delivery. 

Demonstrated ability to understand the business and ability to chip in to the technology direction that gives measurable business improvements.

Ability to adapt to changing business priorities and to thrive under pressure.

Excellent decision-making, communication and collaboration skills.

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