1 day ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver scalable, resilient systems and APIs for eBay’s platform and developer ecosystem.
- Lead architecture for high-traffic distributed systems and reusable, evolvable service contracts.
- Establish API design and governance standards for documentation, versioning, observability, and interface consistency.
- Translate business and product requirements into technical strategies and specifications while balancing performance, reliability, cost, and speed.
- Conduct architecture and code reviews, mentor engineers, and strengthen engineering design practices.
- Identify and resolve bottlenecks, scaling challenges, and reliability risks to improve platform performance and operational excellence.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience building and scaling high-traffic, distributed, transaction-heavy systems.
- Strong proficiency in at least one backend language such as Java, Python, or Kotlin.
- Strong software design fundamentals, including SOLID principles and common design patterns.
- Deep experience designing and operating APIs at scale, including GraphQL schema design and evolution, efficient data fetching, backward compatibility, and API architecture across GraphQL, REST, and RPC.
- Expertise in distributed systems, multithreading, concurrency, enterprise-scale architecture, performance, availability, and observability.
- Experience creating technical specifications and documented service contracts and driving API design consistency and governance across multiple teams.
- Experience working in Agile environments and using modern developer productivity tools.
- Experience with federated GraphQL, cloud-native or microservices architectures, modern frontend technologies, or large-scale platform strategy is a plus.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement; the posting is tagged #LI-Hybrid.
- eBay is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable workplace accommodations.
About TCGplayer
TCGplayer operates an online marketplace and software tools for buying and selling trading card games and related collectibles, serving hobby shops and individual sellers. It generates revenue through marketplace fees, seller subscriptions, and fulfillment programs such as TCGplayer Direct. An eBay subsidiary, the company provides authentication and logistics services that help stores list inventory at scale and reach buyers across the U.S. and internationally.