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Distinguished MTS - Seller Engineering

eBay

San Jose, California

Job description

Overview

As a Distinguished MTS, you will steer the technical vision for the Seller journey, shaping a modern, decoupled architecture across web, mobile, and backend systems. You'll lead legacy transformation, domain boundaries, and client-backed decoupling using Federated GraphQL, while maintaining architectural integrity and fast learning cycles. You balance strategic design with hands-on coding to drive scalable, safe, and high-quality solutions. This role offers impact at scale within a fast-moving, collaborative engineering culture with a strong emphasis on psychological safety and experimentation.

Compensation / Benefits
  • bonus opportunity
  • RSUs
  • medical benefits
  • 401(k) eligibility
  • paid time off
  • parental leave
Responsibilities
  • Define outcome-led technical strategies and measure success using BVSSH metrics
  • Lead the transformation of monolithic services into a distributed architecture
  • Guide Domain-Driven Design and descaling to create clean bounded contexts
  • Architect Federated GraphQL to empower Web and Mobile teams
  • Optimize for flow efficiency and enable safe, fast experiments in JVM services
  • Foster a blameless culture with psychological safety and intelligent failure
  • Lead by hands-on contribution, building foundational patterns and reducing anti-patterns
Key requirements
  • 15-20+ years of engineering leadership experience
  • Proven track record delivering large-scale enterprise-grade solutions
  • Full-stack fluency in Java, Kotlin, Scala; modern Web FE (React/Node) and Native Mobile (iOS/Android)
  • Strong knowledge of Spring, Docker, Kubernetes; automated testing and CI/CD
  • Experience with service-based architectures, Domain-Driven Design, and reactive/event-driven systems
  • Transformation experience modernizing monolithic systems and implementing Federated GraphQL
  • Strong leadership, communication, and mentorship skills
  • Commitment to psychological safety and iterative problem-solving
  • leadership and stakeholder management
  • excellent communication
  • mentorship and coaching
  • Java
  • Kotlin
  • Scala

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