
Senior Director, Engineering – Seller Experience Platform
eBay
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Jose • California • Washington • United States
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Salary
💰 $274,400 - $366,300 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Guide teams in architectural refactoring, focusing on monolith-to-microservices migration
- Collaborate with architects to design and implement a next-generation services platform
- Define and promote the engineering vision to enhance growth and engineering velocity
- Develop strategies for improving operational and execution efficiencies
- Partner with product and business stakeholders to align technology roadmaps with strategic goals
- Foster strong relationships with third-party partners
- Influence the future platform strategy and execution across the company
- Cultivate an engineering culture focused on collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous improvement
- Mentor and evolve team structures, workflows, and interaction models to optimize delivery velocity
- Advocate for community engagement, equipping the seller community with necessary tools
- Analyze current architecture and identify areas for improvement
- Implement best practices in services platform architecture to enhance user experience for our global audience
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (Master’s preferred)
- 15+ years in engineering and leadership, with experience in managing multiple teams
- Strong architectural skills with scalable, loosely coupled systems
- Proven success in migrating monoliths to microservices
- Full-stack development experience across modern stacks
- Expertise in Team Topologies and sociotechnical systems thinking
- Experience in flow optimization using DORA and SPACE metrics
- Dynamic reteaming experience to adapt to priorities
- Experience leading large engineering organizations, managing ambiguity, and aligning efforts with business goals
- Proficient in Federated GraphQL to drive efficient architectures with data fetching across multiple services
- Strong understanding and implementation of Agile and Lean principles to foster continuous improvement and iterative development processes
- Experience in managing remote and distributed teams, with the ability to effectively harness global talent while managing cultural and timezone differences
- Experience with AI/Machine Learning solutions, capable of integrating AI/ML to enhance service platform capabilities and optimize user experiences without requiring advanced expertise.
Benefits
- full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave)
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Hard skills
architectural refactoringmonolith-to-microservices migrationfull-stack developmentFederated GraphQLDORA metricsSPACE metricsAgile principlesLean principlesAI solutionsMachine Learning solutions
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationmentoringrelationship buildinginfluencingcommunity engagementadaptabilitystrategic alignmentcontinuous improvementoptimizing delivery velocity
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceMaster’s degree in Computer Science