Principal SWE (Android), Mobile Team

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.

The Mobile Application Team owns our commitment to empower hobbyists to effortlessly engage with our marketplace, driving growth and loyalty. We embody innovation, agility, and a relentless focus on the hobbyist to create exceptional experiences. Our mobile engineering team thrives on a core foundation of quality, collaboration, ownership, and an unwavering commitment to excellence.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will architect and develop exceptional mobile experiences that empower our hobbyists. We are looking for a team member driven by user-centric approaches, innovation, collaboration, agility, and commitment to quality. You will lead the charge in critical architectural and development best practices that define our mobile application products.  Your strategic vision and leadership will be key in ensuring our mobile experience is at the forefront of technology and provides unparalleled hobbyists experiences.

Our team prides itself on a culture that fosters camaraderie, embraces diversity, and exudes passion! We are one of New York State’s 50 best employers and Fortune.com’s top 100 companies for women in the U.S.

What you will accomplish: 

• Mobile leadership across the company

• Hands-on development of our next generation mobile solutions

• Drive the technical architecture and implementation of mobile platform and solutions ensuring security, scalability, reliability, performance, and amazing user experience

• Define and prioritize the mobile platform roadmap and feature development

• Foster strong relationships with product managers, designers, cloud platform partners and other engineers to ensure seamless collaboration, knowledge sharing, and alignment

• Track and report project progress, identify risks, and implement mitigation strategies to support successful project outcomes

• Champion best practices for development, deployment and quality life-cycles 

What you will bring: 

• 12+ years of experience building native mobile apps for Android

• Deep knowledge of native mobile app architecture, design patterns, and lifecycle

• Experience in building out secure consumer-facing mobile apps with high performance, availability, and scalability

• Experience with Computer Vision and real-time frame processing

• Experience with cross-platform C++ for iOS and Android devices

• Experience with WebView integrations as well as native UI components

• Leadership and communication skills with the ability to mentor, inspire, and motivate team members to achieve team goals

• Ability to conduct research, perform analysis, and communicate results 

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to effectively articulate technology solutions, project status, risks, and opportunities to stakeholders and influence through well-reasoned explanations

• Experience working in an Agile or Scrum environment is preferred

• Tier 4 on call support experience

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