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.
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.
About the team and the role:
As a MTS Software Engineer within eBay's Identity team, you will focus on developing and supporting Identity Services including Authentication, Authorization, Onboarding, User Management, Web Services Security, Device Fingerprinting, and Account Linking/Entity Resolution.
Your work will involve implementing ID Federation protocols like OAuth and OpenId Connect. This role is crucial in maintaining the eBay platform, servicing hundreds of millions of users across both Desktop and Mobile.
As a senior engineer, you'll take part throughout the product development lifecycle—from conceptual design to product launch—while working closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Architectural teams.
What you'll do and learn:
- Independently lead complex technical initiatives within and beyond your team.
- Drive technical direction and roadmap, leads across domain teams and guides others towards the right technical decisions.
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- 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 mindset, 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 company platforms likely to change and integrating flexibility in the design for these area improving engineering velocity
- Long term technology vision to continually modernize and keep systems relevant in constantly changing environments
- Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an "always-on" 24/7 site.
- Evaluate and implement emerging technologies that boost system performance and facilitate easier compliance with global payment regulations.
What you will bring:
- Experience in creating and driving technical strategy and roadmap across multiple domains. Balanced trade-offs to ship scalable solutions supporting long-term goals.
- Successfully forge alignments with key stakeholders on signficant architecture decisions and technical direction for ambiguous problem areas through Architectural Decision Records (ADR)
- Developed and drove adoption of technical practices that improved team velocity to deliver high-quality code across the organization.
- Solid knowledge in end to end system design from frontend to backend involving JavaScript frameworks, Rest APIs, Messaging Systems, RDBMS/NOSQL, Containers, Infrastructure layer, with deep knowledge in several key components. Experience in GraphQL is preferable.
- Experiences in leading complex technical initiatives across teams independently from inception to successful delivery.
- Excellent decision-making skills, thrive on dealing with ambiguities and changes.
- Strong sense of ownership and communication skills , embrace diverse ideas across organization and align on 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, self-driven
- 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 of experience in building large scale, distributed web platforms/APIs with 6+ years as an architect/technical lead responsible for the end to end product scope across multiple domains.
Additional Details
eBay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at talent@ebay.com. We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible. View our accessibility statement to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities.
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