Sr. MTS Software Engineer

As a Sr MTS Software Engineer within eBay's Identity team, you will focus on developing and supporting Identity Services, including Authentication, Authorisation, 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.
Responsibilities:
Independently lead complex technical initiatives within and beyond your team.
Drive technical direction and roadmap, leads across domain teams and guides others towards the right technical decisions.
Authors ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) that serve as a blueprint or a proposed solution for a given technical problem and influence overall tech strategy.
Responsible for one or more large functional areas, possessing in-depth knowledge and expertise.
Demonstrate a strong systems mindset, go beyond immediate needs, proactively addressing performance, security, and future-proofing solutions.
Take ownership of complex projects, driving them from conception to successful implementation.
Change agency to set a high bar and uplevel across teams on culture, process and engineering practices.
Empower teams through effective collaboration, knowledge sharing, and tool building.
Identifying areas in the company platforms likely to change and integrating flexibility in the design for these area improving engineering velocity.
Long-term technology vision to continually modernise and keep systems relevant in constantly changing environments.
Lead engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an "always-on" 24/7 site.
Evaluate and implement emerging technologies that boost system performance and facilitate easier compliance with global payment regulations.
Requirements:
Experience in creating and driving technical strategy and roadmap across multiple domains.
Balanced trade-offs to ship scalable solutions supporting long-term goals.
Successfully forged alignments with key stakeholders on significant architecture decisions and technical direction for ambiguous problem areas through Architectural Decision Records (ADR).
Developed and drove the adoption of technical practices that improved team velocity to deliver high-quality code across the organisation.
Solid knowledge in end-to-end system design involving GraphQL/Rest APIs, Messaging Systems, RDBMS/NOSQL, Containers, Infrastructure layer, with deep knowledge in several key components.
Experience in GraphQL is preferable.
Experiences in leading complex technical initiatives across teams independently from inception to successful delivery.
Excellent decision-making skills, thrive on dealing with ambiguities and changes.
Strong sense of ownership and communication skills, embrace diverse ideas across the organisation and align on a mutually agreed direction to get things done and move forward.
Deeply care about growing others, great at mentoring and coaching, creating a large positive impact on organisational culture.
Strong learning ability, self-driven.
Attending knowledge-sharing sessions, both within the company and externally.
Learning transferable skills.
Growth mindset and constantly looking for opportunities to learn.
Learns adjacent areas (project management, people management, product management) in addition to core technical skills to better support the organisation.
Bachelor's degree in EE, CS or other related field.
10+ years of experience in building large-scale, distributed web platforms/APIs with 5+ years as an architect/technical lead responsible for the end-to-end product scope across multiple domains.

Experience
13-17 yrs