Software Architect

at  eBay

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.
We are the Core Buyer engineering team that helps deliver engaging customer experiences for our buyers. We own View Item domain (Item Page, Transactions such Best Offers and Auctions) and help deliver innovations for our Focus Categories like Collectibles (Trading Cards, Comics, Toys), Fashion and Parts & Accessories. We drive billions of dollars in revenue via 100’s of millions of page views delivered daily across the globe, across all devices & browsers. Performance, Accuracy, Real time systems (e.g. winning bid), Scalability and availability are paramount. Team and these experiences have great financial and customer impact. We strive to delight the diverse customer base across the world. We are a data driven agile organization. We ship often, get immediate user feedback and use experimentation to make decisions. We constantly push for engineering excellence and the best engineering culture.
We are looking for highly collaborative, smart, driven engineers who can help us reshape the future of our mobile application. You’ll be working with a world class team of engineers, designers, product managers, business partners and analysts in a fun environment building world-class customer experiences.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• 10+ years of experience designing, building large-scale distributed systems using industry standard patterns, with deep experience in Java.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, or Bachelor’s degree with equivalent experience
• Extensive hands-on experience and expertise in object-oriented design methodology and application development using Java/J2EE, GraphQL, Design Patterns, Spring MVC, SQL, Web services
• Proven track record in architecting common libraries and patterns for use in large scale applications with 50+ engineers
• Advanced knowledge of model-view-controller (MVC) and object oriented design paradigms.
• Experience with patterns for achieving feature modularity
• Experience in integration with backend APIs (REST/GraphQL), network debugging (e.g. Charles)
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Experience working with services teams to design optimal service contracts

• Leading architecture development and solving problems that span domains and systems
• Implementing tests and responsible software development practices.
• Getting into the details, investigating issues, writing code, performing code reviews, and prototyping new solutions
• Providing expert feedback for code quality, performance, scalability, system architecture, and engineering methodologies
• Modernizing and advocating for continuous improvement of the technology stack when applicable by driving change through the organization
• Shepherding multiple teams and collaborating effectively with product, design and engineering teams across multiple domains and multiple geographies
• Growing your team through coaching, mentoring