Sr.MTS SW Engineer, iOS, eBay Live
About The Position
Join eBay’s Live team, which works to transform shopping journeys across eBay marketplaces through simplification, personalization, and modernization. The team builds experiences for millions of users and emphasizes impactful projects, collaboration, diversity, and support for remote work. The role guides technical decision-making, owns complex projects, and improves engineering practices in a dynamic environment focused on continuous modernization. The engineer defines technical solutions and helps shape eBay’s technology strategy, drives organization-wide improvements to system performance and security, and develops a long-term technology vision. The role also supports team and organizational growth through knowledge sharing, mentoring, and improved collaboration and tooling.
Requirements
- 12+ years of professional experience in native mobile development.
- Expertise in advanced Swift features, such as generics and concurrency management.
- Experience with iOS dependency management tools such as SPM, CocoaPods, or Carthage.
- Deep understanding of system design for large-scale consumer mobile applications.
- Advanced networking skills, including migration between stacks and experience with GraphQL, Protocol Buffers, streaming protocols, or pub-sub.
- Strong decision-making, ownership, and communication skills, including the ability to work through ambiguity and change.
- Proficiency in mentoring and coaching and contributing positively to organizational culture.
- High learning ability, self-direction, and a growth mindset, with interest in learning transferable skills across adjacent domains.
- Experience attending knowledge-sharing sessions within or outside the company.
- 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 such as live streaming, chat, bidding, collaboration tools, gaming, or financial trading, where latency and errors affect user trust and outcomes.
- Experience with high-traffic, event-driven products such as launches, flash sales, or live events, including infrastructure capacity planning, traffic spikes, and graceful degradation under load.
- WebSocket experience.
- FGQL experience.
Responsibilities
- Author Architecture Decision Records to define technical solutions and influence eBay’s technology strategy.
- Drive complex projects from inception through implementation, improving system performance and security across the organization and domains.
- Improve teams’ culture, processes, and engineering practices, and encourage 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 as environments change.
- Share knowledge to help team members improve organizational culture and growth.
- Lead root-cause analysis and implement long-term platform fixes to eliminate recurring issues and improve customer experience.
Benefits
- Target bonus and restricted stock units, as applicable.
- Medical benefits.
- Financial benefits.
- 401(k) eligibility.
- Paid time off benefits, including PTO and parental leave.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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