Lead Android Software Engineer jobs at Ebay in Canada, Toronto

In the role of
Lead Product Manager at eBay Live , your responsibilities will involve shaping and advancing the vision, strategy, and roadmap for eBay Live seller experiences globally. You will orchestrate projects aimed at enhancing live commerce, making it more user-friendly, interactive, and expandable — enabling sellers of all scales to thrive instantly.

You will partner with Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Marketing teams to drive tangible business outcomes and elevate seller success. This highly visible, cross-functional leadership role requires a blend of critical thinking, in-depth product expertise, data-driven decision-making, and genuine empathy for our global seller community.

What you will accomplish:

• Develop and implement the product vision and strategy for eBay Live seller experiences, ensuring it aligns with eBay’s broader corporate and Seller Experience objectives.

• Lead cross-functional teams to build scalable, mobile-first tools that enable sellers to host, promote, and run live selling events with ease.

• Apply a data-informed approach to validate hypotheses, define success metrics, and iterate rapidly to deliver meaningful outcomes for sellers and buyers.

• Champion the voice of the seller, integrating user insights, research, and behavioural data into every stage of the product lifecycle.

• Collaborate closely with senior leaders across product, development, and engineering to ensure strategic alignment, execution clarity, and effective prioritization.

• Establish guidelines and frameworks for experimentation, validation, and decision-making that can scale globally.

• Identify and drive innovation opportunities, bringing to bear trends in live commerce, creator ecosystems, and mobile-first engagement.

• Work closely with Program Management to address barriers, boost delivery efficiency, and update senior executives on progress and breakthroughs.

• Foster a culture of speed and excellence, balancing quality with velocity and empowering teams to make decisions confidently.

What you will bring:

• 10+ years of product management experience, including at least 2+ years at a lead or principal level coordinating complex, cross-functional initiatives.

• Consistent track record of building and scaling customer-facing digital products, ideally within commerce, social, or live content ecosystems.

• Strong strategic and analytical approach — skilled at turning uncertainty into concrete, measurable product roadmaps.

• Extensive background crafting mobile-first and interactive experiences, especially with live video, community, or products driven by creators.

• Shown success leading global, cross-disciplinary teams across development, research, engineering, and data.

• Expertise in AI adoption, experimentation, A/B testing, and product validation frameworks.

• Lead eBay’s international competitive and market intelligence agenda, driving frameworks and insights that shape global and regional strategy.
• Partner closely with International Markets leadership to identify key opportunities, competitive threats, and growth priorities.
• Translate complex data and insights into clear, actionable narratives that drive strategic decisions at GM and VP levels.

• Lead and manage a small, flexible team including contractors, and/or analysts.
• Define project priorities, ensure analytical rigor, and guide execution of insights and deliverables.
• Mentor team members, building a strong culture of excellence, accountability, and collaboration.
• Manage vendor relationships and ensure delivery of high-quality, consistent market intelligence.

• Conduct and oversee competitive analyses, market assessments, and financial modeling to evaluate business opportunities and risks.
• Build and maintain market monitoring frameworks to track emerging trends and shifts in the competitive landscape.
• Partner cross-functionally with Finance, Vertical, Horizontal initiative teams to align insights to support business planning and execution.
• Lead special strategic projects, often with senior-level visibility, to inform key investment and business decisions.

• Present strategic findings and recommendations to senior executives with clarity and confidence.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to business and functional leaders across international markets.
• Drive alignment and momentum through collaboration, influence, and a strong results orientation.

• BA/BS degree, with 8+ years of relevant experience in strategy, consulting or insights-related roles.
• Strong strategic problem-solving and analytical modeling skills.
• Experience in manipulating large data sets, interpreting data trends, and crafting/visualizing business insights.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling abilities, with a track record of influencing senior leadership.
• Strong organizational and project management skills, balancing multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Skilled at cross-functional stakeholder management.
• Strong curiosity in understanding internal and external trends and insights, and always looking for improvement in work and organization.
• Highly responsible and deliver on promises for organizational deadlines.
• Collaborative – be fun and easy to work with!
• Mastery of PowerPoint and Excel required.
• Experience in retail/e-commerce preferred.
• SQL skills a plus.
• Top-tier undergraduate degree and/or MBA a plus.

MTS 2, Software Engineer, Data Platform

Job Type: Full-time

This role is focused on Data Platform Engineering not data engineering . While familiarity with Spark, Flink , and other tools in the Hadoop ecosystem is valuable, your primary responsibility will be building and evolving the platform itself , not just authoring data pipelines.

• major components of eBay’s Data Platforms — from design through production rollout.

• Design and evolve distributed systems powering ingestion, streaming, lakehouse/warehouse, catalog, and governance.

• Contribute to long-term architecture through design reviews and authoring architecture design documents, ensuring scalability and resilience.

• Build systems that balance latency , correctness , and cost while ensuring security and compliance.

• Drive operational excellence for services you own, including observability and incident response.

• Collaborate across product , infra , and analytics teams to align execution with business needs.

• Learn and grow in areas like governance , orchestration , and privacy engineering .
  

• Experience designing large-scale distributed systems (compute, storage, APIs, streaming).

• Ability to independently deliver complex projects from requirements to production.

• Systems thinker who anticipates bottlenecks, schema evolution, and reliability issues.

• Strong communication skills to influence cross-team technical outcomes.

• Growth mindset with curiosity to learn new technologies.
  

• Impact at scale : powering global analytics and ML systems.

• Challenging problems : streaming, freshness/correctness , and multi-cloud resiliency.

• Collaborative culture that values inclusion and knowledge sharing.

• Support & growth : flexibility, benefits, and career development resources.

• Focus on reliability and sustainable on-call
  

• 8+ years of distributed systems or data platform experience.

• Proven ability to design and deliver critical systems with impact.

• Proficiency in Java/Python , CI/CD , and containerized environments.

• Hands-on expertise in tools like Kafka/Flink , Spark , Delta/Iceberg , Kubernetes , NoSQL/columnar stores .

• Experience in streaming and batch data platforms.

• Strong foundation in algorithms and distributed design .

• BS/MS in CS or equivalent experience.

We are hiring a highly Technical Program Leader to help own and lead complex, cross-functional projects, ensuring they meet business objectives and are delivered on time and within budget. This person will bridge the gap between business and technology, working with product managers and engineering leads to define requirements, manage risks, solve problems, and drive execution.

What you will accomplish:

• Lead and deliver complex, cross-functional technical projects, ensuring they meet the needs of the business and the customer.

• Deliver eBay’s highest-priority product initiatives for developers - on time, with quality, and aligned to business goals.

• Drive programs that support the end-to-end developer journey, from initial discovery and onboarding to ongoing support and engagement.

• Partner with diverse teams, including leadership, engineering, business, product, design, and operations, to ensure alignment and turn strategy into clear execution plans.

• Influence, negotiate, unblock, and make key decisions that will lead the teams to hit their targets.

• Design, document, and execute efficient programs across geographically distributed teams and partners. Help other program managers build clear, repeatable practices that improve speed, coordination, and consistency across the product lifecycle.

• Anticipate, assess, and manage program challenges and risks independently.

• Identify dependencies, perform root cause analysis, and recommend mitigation plans as needed. Take direct action to resolve issues before they impact delivery, ensuring smooth execution.

• Define and track team goals / OKRs that measure delivery velocity, execution quality, cross-functional coordination, and developer satisfaction.

• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for programs, such as developer acquisition, API usage, and partner success. Use data to inform program strategy and measure impact.

• Lead critical product and program reviews, and drive the operating rhythm across our team.

• Represent program progress and challenges to senior leadership with clarity, context, and confidence.

• Help foster and grow a vibrant developer community through online forums, events, webinars, and other engagement channels.

• Develop a culture of ownership, urgency, and outcome-driven thinking within our team and across partner groups.

What you will bring:

• 7+ years of program management experience leading large-scale technical programs in complex, global organizations.

• 7+ years of working directly with engineering / software development teams

• 3+ years of software development experience

• Experience managing programs across functions, building processes and coordinating release schedules

• Experience operating in large, matrixed organizations. Able to identify and handle dependencies while aligning priorities across product, engineering, design, operations, legal, finance, and executive teams.

• A clear track record of driving programs involving multiple partners, time zones, business functions, and technical platforms. Success leading delivery across organizations where influence, negotiation, and relationship-building are key to execution.

• Superior verbal and written communication skills, including presentations, specifications, status reports, and management reporting, as well as an ability to summarize, translate detail into insight, and deliver clear narratives to senior leaders.

• A strong ownership mentality with meticulous attention to detail and proactive program execution. Able to hold all program participants accountable, regardless of seniority, and drive independent initiative in ambiguous situations.

• Willingness to be hands-on and do whatever is needed to get things done, including coaching or training others where necessary.

• Ability to operate independently with very little to no guidance, showing initiative even under unfamiliar or ambiguous circumstances.

• A broad technical foundation with the ability to understand engineering, architecture, and systems discussions.

• Strong knowledge of GraphQL / REST APIs, OpenAPI specs, Messaging Systems, RDBMS / NoSQL, Containers, Infrastructure layer, etc. Direct experience in GraphQL, OpenAPI, and Contract-first development preferred.

• Deep understanding of software development principles and experience working with engineering teams is essential. Extensive Agile experience is preferred.

• A data- and outcome-driven approach to decision making; fluent in using delivery metrics, KPIs, and financial targets to track progress and drive accountability.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a technical or business field is required; an advanced degree (MBA, MS) is a plus.

• Formal training in Program Management and PMI Certification is preferred.

What you will accomplish:

• Lead the product strategy and roadmap for improving upper funnel experience on search

• Be a strategic problem solver and able to synthesize data from multiple sources (including analytics, user research, marketing research, and design) to identify key customer unmet needs, key solutions that can address the needs and build product vision with search item tiles

• You will work closely with a cross-functional team of engineering, design, analytics, product marketing, and user research to deliver these products

• You will lead the execution of your roadmap by working with data science, engineering, and analytics teams

• Build MVPs, iterate fast and be the champion of execution excellence

• Conduct AB tests for launch candidates and work with analytics teams to measure the impact on success metrics

• 10+ years of understanding of search and discovery systems , including familiarity with ranking models, search algorithms, and semantic search

• Experience in personalization and recommender systems , ideally using real-time data

• Strong analytic skills and ability to synthesize data from multiple sources

• Passionate advocate for user, and has confirmed results in achieving superb user experience within tight constraints

• Demonstrated leadership ability, self-motivated and directed, entrepreneurial ability to innovate quickly

This role requires a unique product leader who can successfully navigate an ambiguous, fast-paced environment. You will be responsible for defining and delivering high-impact features across the entire live commerce journey, including the foundational technology platform, the global buyer experience, and the tools sellers use to broadcast, engage, and monetize their live streams. If you thrive on significant ownership, high visibility, and the chance to build the future of e-commerce, this is the role for you.

What you will accomplish:

• Serve as a visionary leader for your product space within live commerce, developing a strategy and roadmap that aligns with eBay's top-level goals. This requires blending deep customer empathy with an understanding of market trends, business goals, and competitive insights.

• Drive the full product lifecycle for multiple features or a major product initiative, from initial discovery and opportunity sizing to launch, iteration, and post-launch analysis.

• Own and deliver a challenging product roadmap on time, demonstrating a strong bias for action and high-quality outcomes. You will write clear, detailed requirements (PRDs) that prioritize hypotheses for testing and iteration.

• Lead and inspire confidence among a wide range of partners, including engineering, design, data science, research, and marketing. You will foster collaboration, build alignment, and drive shared goals across all stakeholders.

• Define key success metrics, leverage data and analytics to quantify customer problems, size opportunities, and ultimately measure the impact of your work on organizational goals.

• Cultivate a knowledge of the technical architecture and backend systems for your product area to effectively partner with engineering, unblock development, and influence technical decisions.

What you will bring:

• 9+ years of product management or related strategy experience, with e-commerce, video, or social commerce experience highly preferred.

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or relevant advanced degree preferred.

• Ambiguity Management: Exceptional ability to thrive in an ambiguous, 0-1 environment, distilling complex, unclear problems into a clear product vision and actionable roadmap.

• Prioritization and Tradeoffs: Demonstrated ability to evaluate options, assess trade-offs (short-term vs. long-term), and recommend a path forward, even with incomplete data.

• Influence & Communication: Masters written and verbal communication, adapting your message to influence both execution teams and executive leadership. Ability to lead and inspire without direct authority.

• Analytical Rigor: Proven ability to use quantitative and qualitative insights to build strong business cases, define necessary data, and measure product performance.

Roles/Responsibilities:

• Native iOS app development and converting ideas, designs and requirements to concrete stable production builds

• Coordinate and collaborate with the Product and Engineering team to identify problems, come up with creative solutions, and help with tracking and delivering within the release plan

• Understand and implement iOS specific design patterns

• Experience with iOS XCode, Obj-C, Swift, SwiftUI, network debugging (e.g. Charles), revision control systems (e.g. Git) and bug tracking (e.g. Jira)

• Develop and iterate within a rather lean, yet very fast-paced Engineering team

• Develop code and testing methodologies to improve the DevOps "Four Key Metrics"

• Be part of a transformative, productive and fun startup culture

Job Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience developing iOS applications, with deep experience in both Swift, Objective-C, SwiftUI, Xcode

• Deep experience in unit testing and functional UI testing with XCTest / XCUITest

• Well versed in SOLID principles

• Experience with GraphQL

• Experience with modern design patterns such as MVVM, VIPER, RIBS, etc...

• Ability to collaborate and drive best practices with engineers from numerous teams

• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies

• Experience working with services teams to design optimal mobile services contracts

• B.S Degree in Computer Science or equivalence.