Sr. MTS iOS Engineer, eBay Live (San Jose)

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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.

About the team:

Join eBay's Live team, a vital part of eCommerce innovation dedicated to transforming shopping journeys on eBay marketplaces. Our team focuses on simplification, personalization, and modernization to create world-class experiences for millions of users daily. With an emphasis on impactful projects and a commitment to a vibrant, diverse, and collaborative culture, we offer flexibility and support for remote work, ensuring work-life balance. The role involves guiding technical decision-making, owning complex projects, and uplifting engineering practices, reporting to a cross-functional team aimed at continuous modernization in a dynamic environment.

What you will accomplish

• Author Architecture Decision Records to define technical solutions and influence eBay's tech strategy.

• Drive complex projects from inception to successful implementation, improving system performance and security for entire organization and across domains.

• Uplevel teams through culture, process, and engineering practices, encouraging effective collaboration and tool-building.

• Identify and design flexible solutions within the application ecosystem to improve engineering velocity.

• Develop a long-term technology vision to keep systems modern and relevant amidst changing environments.

• Empower team members through knowledge sharing to collectively improve organizational culture and growth.

What you will bring

• 12+ years professional experience in native mobile development

• Expert in advanced swift features such as generics / concurrency Mgmt. 

• Experience with dependency management tools in iOS - SPM/Cocoapods/Carthage etc.

• Deeper understanding of system design for large scale consumer mobile applications.

• Advanced networking skills ie. migration between stacks, GraphQL, Protobuff, streaming protocols, pub-sub etc.

• Excellent decision-making skills, growing amidst ambiguities and changes, with a strong sense of ownership and communication.

• Proficiency in mentoring and coaching, contributing positively to organizational culture.

• High learning ability, self-driven with a growth mindset, eager to learn transferable skills across adjacent domains.

• Experience attending knowledge sharing sessions both within and outside the company to foster continuous learning.

• Mastery of core technical skills alongside learning project, people, and product management to better support eBay.

Preferred Experience

• Experience building real time, user facing systems (e.g., live streaming, chat, bidding, collaboration tools, gaming, or financial trading) where latency and errors materially impact user trust and outcomes.
• Background working on high traffic, event driven products (launches, flash sales, live events) with an understanding of infrastructure capacity planning, traffic spikes, and graceful degradation under load.
• Lead root-cause analysis and implement long-term fixes across platform to eliminate recurring issues and continuously elevate the customer experience.
• Websocket and FGQL experience a plus.

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

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.

Additional Details

eBay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at  View email address on apply.placed-app.com . We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible. View our accessibility statement to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

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