Android Engineer - MTS 1

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.

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.

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

• Translate requirements to software design and create clean, efficient, extensible, maintainable crash-free code thats aligned with native platform guidelines
• Responsible for subsytems within a large domain, possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise. Taking full responsibility for the entire software life cycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, observability and monitoring.
• Serve as a key player in influencing and guiding others towards the right technical decisions.
• Identifying areas of features likely to change and integrating flexibility in the design for these area improving engineering velocity.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-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, coaching, and mentorship to individual team members.
• Identify gaps and issues across systems and functional areas, propose solutions, build the engineering roadmap, and drive resolution.
  
  
  

What You Will Bring

• 8+ years professional experience in native mobile development
• Mastery of advanced Kotlin language features & android APIs
• Experience authoring shared libraries (internal or external distribution)
• Advanced debugging skills emulator, adb, LLDB
• Experience with Android CI/CD
• Understanding of advanced Kotlin language features, coroutines, lambdas, ect.
• Experience with depedency management tools in android, artifactory, gradle
• Basic understanding of system design for large scale consumer mobile applications
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools
• Advanced networking skills ie. migration between stacks, graphql, protobuff, streaming protocols, pub-sub ect.
• Experience monitoring and improving app performance
• Experience designing, implementing, maintaining shared code
• Advanced understanding of Android design paradigms (Material)
• Innovative, team player, excellent communication and decision-making
• Strong sense of ownership and interpersonal skills to work effectively across teams
• Strong learning ability, self-driven
• Excited about new and innovative technologies within immediate field of expertise
• Attending knowledge sharing sessions, both within the company and externally
• Learning transferable skills
• Bachelor's degree in EE, CS or other related field..
  
  
  

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, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at talent@ebay.com. We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible. View our accessibility statement to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities.

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