Sr MTS, Android Engineer, eBay Live

eBay•Toronto, ON

1d•Remote

About The Position

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. Looking for a company where you can shape how the world buys, sells, and gives? Where you’ll be part of a work culture that’s been genuinely committed to diversity and inclusion since its founding more than 30 years ago? Want to be somewhere you can be yourself, do your best work, and truly make an impact? We’d love to talk. Every day, millions of users sell and ship their wares using eBay. Our team supports this diverse community by building shipping products around the globe, helping individual sellers and small businesses to meet the growing expectations of online buyers. We are an agile team who adapt quickly and stay curious. You will be part of a team responsible for building out the newest eBay experience -- live shopping platform: eBay Live. Live shopping naturally fits into the eBay ethos -- focused largely on unique items, collectibles and fashion, and enabling direct communication between buyers and sellers. This is a relatively new trend in the US and Europe, growing quickly, and is already broadly established in APAC. We are looking to hire a passionate, collaborative and motivated Android Software Engineer, who will help us develop and evolve eBay Live to be a market leader in live shopping and become a key part of the global eBay platform. Join us to make an impact on one of the world’s largest e-commerce websites.

Requirements

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, dedicated
Attending knowledge sharing sessions, 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
Bachelor's degree in EE, CS or other related field.
10+ years professional experience in native mobile development

Responsibilities

Independently lead sophisticated technical initiatives for the entire organization and across domains
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 mentality, 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 through effective collaboration, knowledge sharing, and tool building.
Identifying areas in the app ecosystem and adjacencies that are 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
Translate requirements to software design and create clean, efficient, extensible, maintainable code.
Act as a technical authority and multiplier across domain and platform teams, shaping technical direction, setting standards, and guiding long-term architectural decisions in cross-team contexts.
Improves team productivity by identifying and voicing support for opportunities for productivity improvements.
Identifying areas in the team applications likely to change and integrating flexibility in the design for these areas improving engineering velocity.
Collaborate effectively with multi-functional partners to develop innovative solutions that adhere to development goals and principles.
Lead execution of large, multi-team initiatives, decomposing complex programs into well-defined milestones, managing technical risk, and resolving cross-team dependencies to ensure predictable delivery..
Provide org-level technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, and ADR ((Architecture Decision Records) authorship and stewardship; mentor and coach senior engineers, and influence technical quality beyond immediate teams.
Identify gaps, risks, and opportunities across systems and organizations, propose durable solutions, define multi-quarter engineering roadmaps, and drive alignment and execution across teams and stakeholders.