Native App Engineer - iOS

eBay Inc.; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Join eBay as a Mobile Developer and lead technical strategy to innovate in eCommerce. With a focus on iOS applications, you will translate complex requirements into solutions that enhance user experience. This role offers the chance to work in a diverse team, shaping the future of eCommerce with cutting-edge technologies.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Competitive compensation and benefits

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience in native mobile development.
• Experience in implementing modern platform design patterns.
• Understanding of iOS application testing using platform tools.

Responsibilities

• Translate requirements to software design and create efficient code.
• Responsible for the entire software life cycle including design and testing.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners for innovative solutions.

Skills

Communication

Decision-making

Ownership

Teamwork

Self-driven

Education

Bachelor's degree in EE, CS or related field

Tools

Swift

CI/CD tools

SPM/Cocoapods/Carthage

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.

Looking for a company where you can shape how the world buys, sells, and gives? Where you’ll be part of a work culture that’s been genuinely committed to diversity and inclusion since its founding more than 25 years ago? Where you can just be yourself, do your best work, and have a meaningful impact? If so, we’d love to talk to you.

Every day, millions of users sell and ship their wares using eBay. Our team supports this diverse community by integrating connected products into the eBay platform, helping individual sellers and small businesses to meet the growing expectations of online buyers. We are an agile team who adapt quickly and stay curious. Join us to make an impact on one of the world’s largest e-commerce websites.

What you'll do and learn:

• Translate requirements to software design and create clean, efficient, extensible, maintainable crash-free code that's aligned with native platform guidelines

• Responsible for subsystems within a large domain, possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise. Taking full responsibility for the entire software life cycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, observability and monitoring.

• Serve as a key player in influencing and guiding others towards the right technical decisions.

• Identifying areas of features likely to change and integrating flexibility in the design for these areas improving engineering velocity.

• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners to develop innovative solutions that adhere to development goals and principles.

• Manage project features, break into sub-tasks, identify and resolve issues for efficient execution.

• Provide technical guidance, code review for immediate team and other teams, coaching, and mentorship to individual team members.

• Identify gaps and issues across systems and functional areas, propose solutions, build the engineering roadmap, and drive resolution.

• Lead and improve E2E testing quality and increase delivery velocity across features

What you bring:

• Innovative, team player, excellent communication and decision-making

• Strong sense of ownership and interpersonal skills to work effectively across teams

• Strong learning ability, self-driven

• Excited about new and innovative technologies within immediate field of expertise

• Attending knowledge sharing sessions, both within the company and externally

• Learning transferable skills

• "Experience in creating and driving technical strategy and roadmap across multiple domains. Balanced trade-offs to ship scalable solutions supporting long-term goals.

• Innovative, team player, excellent communication and decision-making skills

• Strong sense of ownership and interpersonal skills to work effectively across teams

• Strong learning ability, self-driven

What we bring:

• Exciting Product Mission with Impactful Technical Challenges - Dive into the heart of eCommerce innovation at Buyer Experiences, where we’re transforming eBay's shopping journey. By focusing on simplification, personalisation, and modernisation, we aim to build world-class buyer and seller experiences on eBay marketplaces with creativity and passion. Utilising cutting-edge technologies like Generative AI, you'll tackle complex challenges that directly improve the shopping experience for millions of eBay users everyday.

• Vibrant Culture - At Buyer Experiences, our strength lies in our diversity, transparency, and collaborative spirit. Our open culture ensures every voice is valued and heard. We celebrate our successes together and approach each challenge as an opportunity for collective growth. Be a part of a dynamic community that not only values your expertise but is also committed to your personal and professional growth.

• Flexible Working - Enjoy exceptional support for remote work, allowing you to balance your professional and personal life seamlessly.

• Competitive Compensation and Benefit - No matter where you are in the world, eBay supports your health and wellbeing with benefits as unique as you. Explore the benefits that help you be your best self. Check out our benefits here: https://www.ebaybenefits.com/index.html.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in EE, CS or other related field.

• 6+ years professional experience in native mobile development

• Experience implementing modern platform design patterns

• Understanding of testing iOS applications using platform tools

• Experience with production monitoring

• Basic proficiency with swift memory management

• Understanding of advanced swift features such as generics / concurrency mgmt /

• Experience with dependency management tools in iOS - SPM/Cocoapods/Carthage etc

• Basic understanding of system design for large scale consumer mobile applications

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools

• Advanced networking skills ie. migration between stacks, graphql, protobuff, streaming protocols, pub-sub ect.

• Experience monitoring and improving app performance

• Experience designing, implementing, maintaining shared code

• Advanced understanding of iOS design paradigms (HIG)

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