Senior Software Architect- Shipping

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At eBay were more than a global ecommerce leader were changing the way the world buys sells and connects. Our culture is built on passion innovation collaboration and the belief that empowering people creates extraordinary outcomes. If youre excited by solving complex engineering challenges at massive scale and shaping the future of global commerce wed love to talk to you.

Our Shipping team is at the heart of the ecommerce experience influencing critical buying and selling decisions by delivering the best shipping options and enabling seamless post-purchase delivery experiences for millions of buyers and sellers worldwide.

We build and operate highly scalable distributed systems that power global shipping fulfillment and logistics capabilities across eBays marketplace. Our mission is to innovate and optimize shipping and logistics experiences to enable borderless commerce at scale.

Role Overview

As a Senior Software Architect you will play a critical role in defining and evolving the architecture of eBays next-generation shipping and logistics platforms. You will provide hands-on technical leadership in designing building and operating highly scalable resilient backend systems that support high-volume low-latency and high-availability workloads.

You will partner closely with engineering product and business teams to solve complex logistics challenges drive architectural innovation and improve platform scalability reliability and operational excellence.

What Youll Do

• Lead the architecture and design of large-scale distributed systems powering eBays Shipping platform

• Drive development of high-performance backend services with strong focus on scalability reliability and resiliency

• Define and implement architectural strategies that improve transaction efficiency system throughput and customer experience

• Design scalable integrations with global carrier and logistics ecosystems

• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering product payments and fulfillment teams to deliver innovative platform capabilities

• Mentor engineers and technical leads promoting engineering excellence best practices and architectural standards

• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies to improve platform performance interoperability and operational efficiency

• Contribute hands-on to critical system design implementation troubleshooting and production operations

What You Bring

• 12 years of software development experience building large-scale high-volume distributed systems

• Strong experience designing and architecting microservices-based cloud platforms

• Proven expertise in backend system architecture and scaling platforms for significant user and transaction growth

• Experience in shipping logistics supply chain or fulfillment domains is highly preferred

• Proficiency in Java or Python with deep understanding of distributed systems and backend engineering principles

• Strong knowledge of cloud-native technologies APIs event-driven architectures and CI/CD practices

• Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems and influence architectural decisions across teams

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Experience working in Agile environments and modern software delivery practices

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field (or equivalent practical experience)

Additional Details

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