MTS 2 Software Engineer(FE)

eBay; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

eBay is looking for an experienced MTS Software Engineer to join their Identity team in Bengaluru, India. The role involves developing and supporting a range of Identity Services crucial to maintaining the eBay platform.

The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in large-scale web platforms, be skilled in technical leadership, and possess a strong understanding of system design and APIs. eBay values diversity and encourages all qualified candidates to apply.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in building large-scale web platforms/APIs.
• 6+ years as an architect/technical lead responsible for end-to-end products.
• Experience in creating technical strategies and roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex technical initiatives and drive technical direction.
• Own overall technical decisions and document through ADRs.
• Evaluate and implement emerging technologies to enhance systems.

Skills

Leadership in technical initiatives

Systems design

JavaScript frameworks

REST APIs

Mentoring and coaching

Technical strategy and roadmap

GraphQL

Education

Bachelor’s degree in EE, CS or related field

Job description

About the Team And The Role

As a MTS Software Engineer within eBay’s Identity team, you will focus on developing and supporting Identity Services including Authentication, Authorization, Onboarding, User Management, Web Services Security, Device Fingerprinting, and Account Linking/Entity Resolution. Your work will involve implementing ID Federation protocols like OAuth and OpenId Connect. This role is crucial in maintaining the eBay platform, servicing hundreds of millions of users across both Desktop and Mobile. As a senior engineer, you’ll take part throughout the product development lifecycle—from conceptual design to product launch—while working closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Architectural teams.

What You’ll Do And Learn

• Independently lead complex technical initiatives within and beyond your team.
• Drive technical direction and roadmap, leads across domain teams and guides others towards the right technical decisions.
• Authors ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) that serve as blueprint or a proposed solution for a given technical problem and influence overall tech strategy.
• Responsible for one or more large functional areas possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise.
• Demonstrate a strong systems mindset, go beyond immediate needs, proactively addressing performance, security, and future-proofing solutions.
• Take ownership of complex projects, driving them from conception to successful implementation.
• Change agency to set a high bar and uplevel across teams on culture, process, and engineering practices. Empower teams through effective collaboration, knowledge sharing, and tool building.
• Identify areas in the company platforms likely to change and integrate flexibility in the design for these areas, improving engineering velocity.
• Develop a long-term technology vision to continually modernize and keep systems relevant in constantly changing environments.
• Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an "always-on" 24/7 site.
• Evaluate and implement emerging technologies that boost system performance and facilitate easier compliance with global payment regulations.

What You Will Bring

• Experience in creating and driving technical strategy and roadmap across multiple domains. Balanced trade-offs to ship scalable solutions supporting long-term goals.
• Successfully forge alignments with key stakeholders on significant architecture decisions and technical direction for ambiguous problem areas through ADR.
• Developed and drove adoption of technical practices that improved team velocity to deliver high-quality code across the organization.
• Solid knowledge in end-to-end system design from frontend to backend involving JavaScript frameworks, REST APIs, messaging systems, RDBMS/NOSQL, containers, and the infrastructure layer, with deep knowledge in several key components. Experience in GraphQL is preferable.
• Experience in leading complex technical initiatives across teams independently from inception to successful delivery.
• Excellent decision-making skills, thrive on dealing with ambiguities and changes.
• Strong sense of ownership and communication skills, embrace diverse ideas across the organization and align on a mutually agreed direction to get things done and move forward.
• Deeply care about growing others, great at mentoring and coaching, creating a large positive impact on organizational culture.
• Strong learning ability, self-driven.
• Attending knowledge sharing sessions, both within the company and externally.
• Learning transferable skills.
• Growth mindset and constantly looking for opportunities to learn.
• Learns adjacent areas (project management, people management, product management) in addition to core technical skills to better support the organization.
• Bachelor’s degree in EE, CS or other related field.
• 10+ years of experience in building large-scale, distributed web platforms/APIs with 6+ years as an architect/technical lead responsible for the end-to-end product scope across multiple domains.

Additional Details

eBay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at [e-mail]. We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible.