Sr. MTS -Team Lead, Software Engineering

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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.

About the Team and Role

We are the Selling Engineering Team at eBay! We are seeking a dedicated, creative, and high-impact Lead Software Engineer (Team Lead) to guide a highly skilled backend engineering team. In this role, you will combine hands-on technical leadership with team leadership to architect, design, and build innovative, high-performance, and highly available web services and applications.

These solutions empower business sellers worldwide to onboard, manage inventory and listings, and grow their business on one of the world’s largest global marketplaces. This position is critical to improving eBay’s selling experience and delivering meaningful impact to sellers globally.

You will play a key role in leading a team of engineers, driving adoption of AI, improving code quality, and elevating engineering best practices to build the next generation of eBay’s selling platform.

What You Will Accomplish

• Provide technical leadership in designing cross–data center distributed, fault-tolerant, highly available, and performant web services and applications

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a high-performing, collaborative, and inclusive team environment

• Contribute hands-on to architecture, design, and development using strong OOA/D skills and problem-solving abilities

• Drive projects end-to-end from design through development, testing, deployment, and support

• Partner closely with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, Analytics) to deliver high-quality, impactful solutions

• Contribute to technical strategy and roadmap planning for the Selling platform

• Champion adoption of AI and modern engineering practices

• Establish and uphold high standards for code quality, performance, scalability, and reliability

• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and ongoing feedback to engineers to support growth and development

• Support hiring, onboarding, and team planning in partnership with engineering management

• Estimate engineering effort, plan implementations, and ensure successful system rollouts

• Identify technical risks and drive mitigation strategies

• Foster a strong engineering culture centered on innovation, accountability, collaboration, and execution excellence

What You Will Bring

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership and/or team leadership experience

• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop engineers while remaining hands-on

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience, with a strong background in building scalable distributed systems and internet-scale applications

• Proven track record of contributing to and leading the development of highly used web applications

• Strong execution skills with the ability to drive work through influence, collaboration, and ownership

• Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively across technical and cross-functional teams

• Deep, hands-on experience with , Spring framework, GraphQL services, REST APIs, JSON, and internet protocols

• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, multithreading, synchronization, and concurrent programming

• Experience contributing to system design, architecture discussions, and delivering projects end-to-end

• Strong understanding of design patterns and object-oriented analysis and design (OOA/D)

• Ability to produce well-documented design docs and actively participate in code reviews and development

• Experience working with large-scale distributed systems and modern backend architectures

• Strong collaboration skills across distributed teams and the ability to manage multiple priorities

• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals and modern web technologies

• Experience with non-functional requirements such as security, performance, scalability, accessibility, and site optimization

• Passion for building scalable systems, improving engineering practices, and developing strong teams

Additional Details

This job posting relates to an existing vacancy within eBay.

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