Sr.MTS SW Engineer, iOS, eBay Live

eBay•San Jose, CA

2d•$217,600 - $290,500•Remote

About The Position

Join eBay's Live team, which works to transform shopping journeys across eBay marketplaces through simplification, personalization, and modernization. The team creates experiences for millions of users and offers a collaborative culture with flexibility and support for remote work. In this role, you will guide technical decision-making, own complex projects, and improve engineering practices. You will report to a cross-functional team focused on continuous modernization in a dynamic environment. The work includes shaping technical solutions and eBay's technology strategy, improving system performance and security, increasing engineering velocity, and developing a long-term technology vision. You will also share knowledge and support the growth of team members. The expected base pay range is $217,600–$290,500. Actual pay may vary based on location, skills, and experience. Total compensation may include a target bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits such as medical, financial, 401(k) eligibility, paid time off, and parental leave. Remote roles are not eligible for U.S. visa sponsorship.

Requirements

12+ years of professional experience in native mobile development.
Expertise in advanced Swift features, including 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, such as migrating between stacks and working with GraphQL, Protocol Buffers, streaming protocols, or pub-sub.
Strong decision-making skills, ability to work through ambiguity and change, ownership, and communication skills.
Ability to mentor and coach and contribute positively to organizational culture.
High learning ability, self-direction, a growth mindset, and willingness to learn transferable skills across adjacent domains.
Experience attending knowledge-sharing sessions inside and outside the company.
Mastery of core technical skills, alongside learning project, people, and product management.

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 materially 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 and 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 team 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 and improve organizational culture and growth.
Lead root-cause analysis and implement long-term platform fixes to eliminate recurring issues and improve customer experience.