Sr. MTS SW Engineer, iOS, eBay Live

eBayToronto, ON
Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

  • 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.

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.
  • Websocket and FGQL experience a plus.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Lead root-cause analysis and implement long-term fixes across platform to eliminate recurring issues and continuously elevate the customer experience.

Benefits

  • flexibility and support for remote work
  • work-life balance
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