eBay is looking to solve the problem of supporting a diverse community of sellers and buyers on its platform by building shipping products around the globe and helping individual sellers and small businesses meet the growing expectations of online buyers.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in building large scale, distributed web platforms/APIs with 5+ years as an architect/technical lead responsible for the end to end product scope across multiple domains.
- Experience in creating and driving technical strategy and roadmap across multiple domains.
- Solid knowledge in end to end system design from frontend to backend involving JavaScript frameworks, GraphQL/Rest APIs, Messaging Systems, RDBMS/NOSQL, Containers, Infrastructure layer, with deep knowledge in several key components.
- Experience in GraphQL is preferable.
- Experiences in leading complex technical initiatives across teams independently from inception to successful delivery.
- Balanced trade-offs to ship scalable solutions supporting long-term goals.
- Successfully forged alignments with key stakeholders on significant architecture decisions and technical direction for ambiguous problem areas through Architectural Decision Records (ADR).
Responsibilities
- 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 serves as blueprint or a proposed solution for a given technical problem and influences overall tech strategy
- Responsible for one or more large functional areas possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise.
- Demonstrate 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.
- Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an 'always-on' 24/7 site.
Other
- Bachelor's degree in EE, CS or other related field.
- Excellent decision-making skills, thrive on dealing with ambiguities and changes.
- Strong sense of ownership and communication skills , embrace diverse ideas across 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.
- Growth mindset and constantly looking for opportunities to learn
