Ebay Software Architect 

Canada, Ontario, Toronto 

516460602

The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of building large scale applications, low latency API’s, data pipelines, and a high focus on capability oriented architecture. As the lead engineer you will oversee aspects of the software lifecycle : design, development, testing and experimentation.

Architecture & Engineering Excellence:

• Influence and contribute to the organizational technology strategy, ensuring its adoption and successful execution within your projects/domains

• Act as a change agent with a strong sense of ownership and innovative mindset, proactively identify architectural opportunities, advocate and bring forth better solutions, prototype quickly, demo and collect feedback often, document well to get buy-in

• Lead architecture & design with a systematic approach, balancing the holistic design and scalability of software architecture with short-term feature development

• Playing a pivotal role in continuously improving engineering practices, bringing a significant long-term impact on team velocity including speed and quality of delivery

• Produce best-in-class documentation, such as Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), facilitate design reviews, and maintain architectural wikis to foster self-learning and efficient onboarding.

• Collaborate closely with fellow architects across various teams and domains within the organization to align and synergize architectural efforts

Execution:

• Responsible for driving major projects and features across teams from design phase to coding and testing

• Work closely with product managers, engineering leaders and collaborate with partner teams to execute product/technology roadmap

Grow Others:

• Coach and mentor others via either formal mentorship structure or day to day activities such as pair programming, code/design review, hackathon

• Play a critical role in hiring, acting as a bar-raiser to elevate team talent

Job Requirements

• Deep experience building large scale, high throughput distributed web platforms/APIs serving millions of users

• Exceptional development skills in Java / Scala, Javascript, solid knowledge in GraphQL.

• Tracking records of identifying high-value, high-complexity technical problems, driving to effective solutions that had a significant positive impact

• Successfully forged alignment with senior stakeholders on technical direction for ambiguous problem areas

• Developed and drove adoption of technical patterns that significantly improved engineering practices across the organization

• Strong sense of ownership, embrace differences and disagreement to get things done and move forward

• Deeply care about growing others, great at mentoring and coaching.

• Bachelor’s degree and 15+ years (or) a MS in Computer Science and 12+ years of software design and relevant experience

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