Senior Staff Engineer

eBay; Toronto; On-site; CAD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team at a leading global ecommerce company, where you will play a pivotal role as a Software Architect. This position involves redefining the buyer experience through innovative architecture and engineering excellence. Collaborate with talented engineers, designers, and product managers to create impactful products that enhance the shopping experience for millions. With a strong emphasis on mentorship and team growth, you will have the opportunity to influence technology strategy and improve engineering practices. If you are passionate about building scalable solutions and fostering a culture of innovation, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 15+ years experience in software design and development.
• Deep experience in building large scale distributed web platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and design with a focus on scalability.
• Drive major projects from design phase to coding and testing.

Skills

Java

Scala

JavaScript

GraphQL

Distributed Systems

Mentoring

Problem-Solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Master’s degree in Computer Science

Job description

At eBay, we're more than a global ecommerce leader — we’re changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We’re committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts.

Our customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work — every day. We're in this together, sustaining the future of our customers, our company, and our planet.

Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.

Are you looking for a company that inspires passion, courage and imagination, where you can be part of the team shaping the future of global commerce? Want to shape how millions of people buy, sell, connect, and share around the world? If you’re interested in joining a purpose driven community that is dedicated to creating an ambitious and inclusive workplace, join eBay – a company you can be proud to be a part of.

eBay's Buyer Experience engineering team is looking for an outstanding Software Architect to work with as we redefine the face of eBay. You’ll be working with a world class team of engineers, designers, product managers, and analysts to create great products that make a difference on one of the world’s most trafficked and loved websites.

The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of building large scale applications, low latency APIs, 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.

Primary Job Responsibilities

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