Ebay Sr. MTS Software Engineer 

United States, Oregon, Portland 

323388962

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: