דרושים Lead Android Software Engineer ב-איביי ב-United States, Portland

About the team and role:

You’ll work on , while driving modernization of the native platform using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and modern Android architecture . The role involves deep collaboration with iOS, backend, and security teams to deliver cohesive, cross-platform identity solutions.

Job Requirements :

• 8+ years of professional experience in native mobile development.

• Bachelor’s degree in EE, CS, or a related field.

• Mastery of advanced Kotlin language features and Android APIs.

• Experience authoring shared libraries (internal or external distribution).

• Advanced debugging skills (emulator, adb, LLDB).

• Experience with Android CI/CD.

• Proven experience proposing and influencing technical strategy and roadmap, balancing short- and long-term objectives.

• Strong background designing and building scalable, distributed, and highly available systems.

• Solid knowledge of end-to-end system design from frontend to backend involving JavaScript frameworks, GraphQL/REST APIs, Messaging Systems, RDBMS/NoSQL, Containers, and Infrastructure layers. (GraphQL experience preferred.)

• Proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks, with deep mastery in at least one or two.

• Demonstrated ability to improve team velocity and code quality through strong engineering practices.

• Experience using AI tools to enhance productivity and efficiency.

• Excellent decision-making skills; thrives in ambiguity and change.

• Strong ownership mindset with exceptional interpersonal and cross-functional collaboration skills.

• Passion for mentoring and developing others; proven positive impact on team culture and technical growth.

Responsibilities:

• Translate requirements into software design and develop clean, efficient, and maintainable code.

• Own large functional areas and demonstrate deep technical expertise.

• Influence technical direction across domain teams and guide others toward sound architectural decisions.

• Improve team productivity by identifying and implementing opportunities for process and tooling enhancements.

• Design systems with flexibility in mind to accommodate future changes and improve engineering velocity.

• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams (product, design, backend,

  iOS
  , and security) to deliver innovative, high-impact solutions.

• Manage project features, break down work into sub-tasks, and drive execution by resolving technical blockers.

• Provide technical guidance, perform code reviews, contribute to and review Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), and mentor engineers within and across teams.

• Identify gaps and issues across systems, propose technical solutions, and help shape the engineering roadmap.

• Maintain a growth mindset and continuously seek learning opportunities through knowledge sharing and professional development.

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

What you will accomplish

• Build and maintain eBay’s homepage/CMS backend engineering and machine learning stack

• Translate requirements to software design and create clean, efficient, extensible, maintainable code.

• Be responsible for a large functional area possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise.

• Influence across domain teams and guiding others towards the right technical decisions

• Design and build scalable, distributed and high-available systems, ensuring high-performant, responsive website and accessibility.

• Provide technical guidance, code review for immediate team and other teams, contribute and review ADRs (Architecture Decision Records), coaching, and mentorship to individual team members within and outside teams.

• Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities.

• Identify areas in the team applications and integrate flexibility in the design for these areas

• Improving engineering velocity.

What you will bring

• 6+ years of experience in working in JavaScript, GraphQL REST APIs, messaging systems and/or other backend programming languages.

• Hands-on experience building data-driven applications (RDBMS, NoSQL, ElasticSearch)

• A deep understanding of building scalable backend applications.

• Strong experience delivering results in fast-paced environments (agile, TDD, CI/CD)

• Passion for AI technologies (LLMs and Machine Learning)

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

What you will accomplish:

• Lead and grow a team of Android engineers, attracting top talent and nurturing their development through coaching and mentorship

• Deliver high-quality, innovative mobile experiences for millions of daily active users, setting new industry standards for performance and usability

• Foster collaboration across multi-functional and global teams, improving workflows and accelerating product delivery

• Drive continuous improvement in development processes, advocating for standard methodologies in code quality, technical architecture, and team culture

• Champion agile methodologies and data-driven decision making, ensuring successful feature launches and impactful product releases

• Mentor engineers in advanced Android development, supporting each team member’s learning journey and helping develop future technical leaders

What you will bring:

• Prefer 12+ years’ experience designing, building, and releasing native Android applications using Kotlin and established architecture patterns

• Proven leadership in managing and developing high-performing engineering teams

• Expertise in Android frameworks and tools, including Jetpack Compose, MVVM, Dagger, and integration with backend APIs (REST/GraphQL)

• Strong advocacy for automated testing, continuous delivery, and software quality across the development lifecycle

• Excellent communication, documentation, and remote collaboration skills for success across dispersed team environments

• Experience working on consumer-facing products, driving customer-centric solutions and delivering measurable business impact

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

What you will accomplish :

• Collaborate with engineers, UX designers, and product managers in an agile environment to design, develop, test, and support high-quality, high-performance, visually appealing, and interaction-rich front-end products across all phases of the development cycle, ensuring compatibility across browsers and operating systems.

• Develop and maintain web applications using JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS, web UX component template language, web assembly, and Node.js. Design and develop responsive layouts, ensuring cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility and performance.

• Build rich web applications by improving browser local IndexedDB and web workers.

• Design and implement shareable UX components, libraries, tools, and processes to improve team development agility.

• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins and Git and integrate with backend APIs, focusing on performance tuning for both browser and Node.js virtual machines.

• Write and maintain automated tests using tools such as Playwright, Percy, or other testing frameworks and ensure code quality by writing well-structured, maintainable, and efficient code, incorporating CSS and JavaScript standard methodologies.

What you will bring:

• Prefer B.S. or M.S degree with 10+ years of experience in architecting, designing, and developing high-volume, highly interactive web applications that are compatible across various browsers and device types.

• Expertise in HTML5, CSS3 (using preprocessors like LESS or SASS), Content Delivery Networks (CDN), and advanced JavaScript/TypeScript development. Proficient in Ajax and web template technologies, with expert-level skills in server-side Node.js web application development.

• · Knowledge of automation testing tools and experience in writing automation tests to cover unit, component, and UI visual tests.

• Strong foundation in computer science, particularly in data structures and algorithms.

• Experience in non-functional skills like Security, Load and Performance Tests, Accessibility, Site Speed optimization, Cross-browser /Cross-platform UX Design.

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

About the Role :

What you will accomplish :

• Crafting/giving functional and technical direction to a solution

• Test-driven development (TDD)/Behavior Driven Development (BDD), clean code, software craftsmanship

• Testing at all levels (unit, integration, UI and acceptance)

• Refactoring to enhance testability and re-usability

• Continuous delivery and integration

• Identify project risks, quantify risk/benefit relationships

What you will bring :

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited College or University in Computer Science or related major and 5+ years of mobile development experience

• Experience in iOS, Swift, Objective-C, and XCode as well as familiarity with the integration of network services

• Knowledge of GraphQL, REST is helpful

• Knows about Async/Await, concurrency, combine, UIkit, SwiftUI and various iOS development frameworks essential for Mobile Application development

• Full stack development experience is a bonus

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

• Write clean, efficient, testable code in Java/Kotlin and Python.
  

• Apply modular design principles and ensure clear separation of concerns across service boundaries.
  

• Support the integration, deployment, and optimization of AI/ML models to enhance product functionality and system performance.
  

• Partner with cross-functional teams—including ML, data, product, and other engineering groups—to deliver high-quality solutions for eBay’s marketplace.
  

• Use AI-driven tools and modern engineering practices to accelerate development and improve productivity.
  

• Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to shaping the direction of backend and applied AI/ML systems.

• Proven software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend systems and production-grade services.
  

• Proficiency in Java/Kotlin and Python , with the ability to write clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
  

• Deep understanding of backend architecture, distributed systems, modular design principles, and core system design fundamentals.
  

• Strongly preferred experience with:
  

  • Applied AI/ML model integration
    

  • Hugging Face
    

  • PyTorch
    

  • Spring Boot
    

  • NoSQL databases
    

  • Spark
    

• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and effectively leverage AI tools to enhance engineering workflows.
  

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  

• 6–8 years working in software engineering roles.
  

• Excellent communication skills and a track record of collaborating successfully with geographically distributed teams.
  

• A passion for building high-quality, scalable software that delivers meaningful customer impact.

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

What you will accomplish:

• Independently lead sophisticated, high-impact initiatives within eBay’s selling inventory management domain, from conception to successful production rollout.

• 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.

• 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.

What you will bring:

• 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. Deep architectural understanding of system design and a proven ability to lead projects to completion.

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

• 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.

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below: