MTS1, Android Engineer, eBay Live

eBay•San Jose, CA

About The Position

eBay Live Engineering builds and operates the real-time platform behind eBay’s live shopping and interactive experiences. We combine low-latency video, interactive chat, and commerce actions with robust trust, safety, and analytics—at global scale.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience, with 8+ years of professional native Android development experience.
Deep expertise in Kotlin and modern Android development, including Jetpack Compose, coroutines, lambdas, and advanced language features.
Strong experience with MVVM, Dependency Injection (Hilt/Dagger), SOLID principles, and modular architectures for large-scale, feature-rich applications.
Advanced understanding of Android UI frameworks and Material Design, with experience building reusable and shared UI components.
Proven experience integrating mobile clients with backend services using GraphQL, protobuf, streaming or pub/sub protocols, and participating in API and contract design with services teams.
Hands-on experience with unit testing and UI testing using JUnit and Espresso, with a strong focus on code quality, maintainability, and testability.
Proficient with Android Studio, Gradle, dependency management, and artifact repositories (e.g., Artifactory).
Experience monitoring, profiling, and improving application performance, stability, and scalability in production environments.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and release processes for Android applications in Agile/Scrum environments.
Solid understanding of system design considerations for large-scale consumer mobile applications.
Strong sense of ownership, excellent communication and decision-making skills, and ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.
Self-driven, eager to learn, and passionate about new and emerging Android and mobile technologies, actively participating in knowledge-sharing internally and externally.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain high-quality, scalable, and reliable Android applications and client-side architectures that support eBay’s marketplace experiences.
Own Android features and components end to end, managing the full lifecycle including design, implementation, testing, release, monitoring, and ongoing maintenance.
Translate product and technical requirements into clean, efficient, maintainable, and production-ready Kotlin/Java code, with a strong focus on performance, responsiveness, and user experience.
Drive test-first development through unit, integration, and UI testing (e.g., JUnit, Espresso), and contribute to CI/CD pipelines for reliable and repeatable Android releases.
Partner closely with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and fellow mobile engineers to align technical decisions with business priorities and delivery goals.
Conduct code reviews, maintain clear documentation, and advocate Android engineering best practices, architectural consistency (e.g., MVVM), and platform standards.
Build testable, observable mobile features, leveraging analytics, logging, and crash reporting tools to support data-driven decisions and continuous improvement.
Support production releases and incident response for Android applications, ensuring stability, performance, and a high-quality customer experience across a wide range of devices.
Evaluate design and implementation options, identify optimization opportunities (performance, memory, battery, startup time), and continuously raise the technical bar across Android projects and teams.