Lead iOS Software Engineer

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.

What you'll do and learn:

Responsibilities

• Translate requirements to software design and create clean, efficient, extensible, maintainable code.

• Responsible for a large functional area possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise.

• Influencer across domain teams and guiding others towards the right technical decisions.

• Improves team productivity by identifying and evangelizing opportunities for productivity improvements.

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

• Collaborate effectively with multi-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, contribute and review ADRs (Architecture Decision Records), coaching, and mentorship to individual team members within and outside teams.

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

What you bring:

• Excellent decision-making skills, thrive on dealing with ambiguities and changes. 

• Strong sense of ownership with outstanding interpersonal skills to work effectively across teams & multiple division partners

• Deeply care about growing others, great at mentoring and coaching, creating a large positive impact on organizational culture. 

• Strong learning ability, determined                        

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

• Learning transferable skills

• Growth mindset and constantly looking for opportunities to learn

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, personalization, and modernization, we aim to build world-class buyer and seller experiences on eBay marketplaces with creativity and passion. Utilizing innovative technologies like Generative AI, you'll tackle complex challenges that directly improve the shopping experience for millions of eBay users every day.

• 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.

• Job Requirements:

  • 10+ years professional experience in native mobile development 

  • Mastery of advanced swift language features & iOS APIs 

  • Experience authoring shared libraries (internal or external distribution)

  • Advanced debugging skills lldb, instruments, network conditioner, ect. 

  • Experience with iOS CI/CD        

  • Proven track record in architecting common libraries and patterns for use in large scale applications with 50+ engineers.

  • Deep experience in unit testing and functional UI testing with XCTest / XCUITest.

  • Deep experience with Xcode and all of its lovely quirks.

  • Experience with modern design patterns such as MVVM, VIPER, RIBS, etc.

  • Experience with patterns for achieving feature modularity.

  • Experience with reactive programming using Combine or RxSwift.

  • Experience in integration with backend APIs (REST/GraphQL), network debugging (e.g. Charles)

  • Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

  • Experience working with services teams to design optimal mobile services contracts.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with SwiftUI.

• Experience working on large scale applications encompassing dozens of features and > 500k LOC.

• Experience with project tracking and reporting tools (e.g., Jira)

• Master's degree in Computer Science, or Bachelor's degree with equivalent experience

• Excellent documentation skills.

• Experience building data-driven applications (RDBMS, NoSQL, ElasticSearch)

• Experience delivering results in fast-paced environments (agile, TDD, CI/CD)

• Familiarity with shift left approach is a plus

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