• In this pivotal role, you will lead, architect, design, and develop innovative, highly performant, and available software across various device form factors
• Your work will directly empower millions of business sellers globally to onboard, manage inventory & listings, and grow their businesses on the largest global marketplace
• Independently lead sophisticated, high-impact initiatives within eBay’s selling inventory management domain, from conception to successful production rollout
• Championing excellence by promoting clean architecture, modern frameworks, quality gates, and alignment to design patterns and coding standards
• Elevate the engineering bar through meticulous design/code reviews, operational excellence (SLOs, observability, incident management), and scalable practices that enhance team velocity
• Act as a technical mentor, guiding senior and junior engineers on architecture standard methodologies and advanced problem-solving and introduce AI-first frameworks and reusable components to reduce developer friction and enable faster iteration
• Automate diagnostics, monitoring, and remediation using intelligent assistants and prediction-based alerting
• Lead by example: write reference implementations, contribute to core libraries and services, and conduct in-depth code reviews to influence standards and uplift team capabilities
• Develop well-structured Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and contribute to user documentation and standards
• Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and manage system changes

Proactively identify and recommend mitigation strategies for project technical risks

• Deep architectural understanding of system design and a proven ability to lead projects to completion
• Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to influence multi-functional and cross-geography teams to deliver results
• Excellent time management skills and ability to work on concurrent assignments with different priorities
• Demonstrated experience driving architecture discussions, producing well-documented design documents, participating in design and code reviews, and contributing to coding and unit testing of fault-tolerant applications
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms, coupled with up-to-date knowledge in advancements in Web technologies and a drive for innovation

Proven ability to mentor senior engineers, influence organization-wide practices, and make long-term architectural decisions that unlock measurable business outcomes

Architect, design, and develop cross-data center distributed, fault-tolerant, highly available, and performant web services and applications with expert software architecture design, OOA/D skills, and outstanding analytical and problem-solving abilities Prefer a BSCS, MSCS, or a similar technical degree with 14+ years of experience in crafting and developing highly scalable distributed platforms, internet-scale web applications, 4+ years as a staff/architect-level technical lead across multiple domains Expert, hands-on experience in Java, Spring Framework, GraphQL Service and schema design, Design Patterns, OOA/D, Data Structures, REST, JSON, and Internet Protocols, any experience in Federated GraphQL schema design and implementation is a significant plus

• Proficiency in Java and/or Scala, with a strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, multithreading, synchronization, and concurrent programming

Solid knowledge and experience with relational databases (Oracle) and/or NoSQL data technologies (Mongo, Cassandra, Couchbase), ElasticSearch, and related toolsets

$152,400 - $247,800

• Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, skills, and experience

The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave) If hired, employees will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors