Sr. MTS iOS Engineer, eBay Live

eBay is a global ecommerce leader committed to transforming the way the world shops and sells. The role involves guiding technical decision-making, owning complex projects, and uplifting engineering practices within eBay's Live team to enhance user experiences on the platform.

Responsibilities:

• Author Architecture Decision Records to define technical solutions and influence eBay's tech strategy
• Drive complex projects from inception to successful implementation, improving system performance and security for entire organization and across domains
• Uplevel teams through culture, process, and engineering practices, encouraging effective collaboration and tool-building
• Identify and design flexible solutions within the application ecosystem to improve engineering velocity
• Develop a long-term technology vision to keep systems modern and relevant amidst changing environments
• Empower team members through knowledge sharing to collectively improve organizational culture and growth

Requirements:

• 12+ years professional experience in native mobile development
• Expert in advanced swift features such as generics / concurrency Mgmt
• Experience with dependency management tools in iOS - SPM/Cocoapods/Carthage etc
• Deeper understanding of system design for large scale consumer mobile applications
• Advanced networking skills ie. migration between stacks, GraphQL, Protobuff, streaming protocols, pub-sub etc
• Excellent decision-making skills, growing amidst ambiguities and changes, with a strong sense of ownership and communication
• Proficiency in mentoring and coaching, contributing positively to organizational culture
• High learning ability, self-driven with a growth mindset, eager to learn transferable skills across adjacent domains
• Experience attending knowledge sharing sessions both within and outside the company to foster continuous learning
• Mastery of core technical skills alongside learning project, people, and product management to better support eBay
• Experience building real time, user facing systems (e.g., live streaming, chat, bidding, collaboration tools, gaming, or financial trading) where latency and errors materially impact user trust and outcomes
• Background working on high traffic, event driven products (launches, flash sales, live events) with an understanding of infrastructure capacity planning, traffic spikes, and graceful degradation under load
• Lead root-cause analysis and implement long-term fixes across platform to eliminate recurring issues and continuously elevate the customer experience
• Websocket and FGQL experience a plus