Associate Tech Lead

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Certilogo an eBay company empowers brands and consumers through trusted product authentication and brand engagement solutions. The Brand Success squad onboards new brands integrates brand data creates demo connectors for business development and marketing teams and provides first-line support for brand and consumer issues.

In this role you will lead the squads technical direction and help scale these capabilities while improving reliability standardization and operational efficiency. You will work in a collaborative client-facing environment where diverse perspectives are valued and technical challenges are approached as opportunities for shared learning and growth.

This is a full-time position based in Milan with a hybrid work model (3 days per week in the office) and flexibility to support work-life balance.

• Lead the technical direction of the Brand Success squad making architecture and delivery decisions that align with the broader platform strategy.

• Deliver high-quality solutions across design implementation testing deployment and observability with a focus on customer and business outcomes.

• Balance short-term delivery priorities with longer-term scalability automation reliability and operational improvements.

• Raise engineering quality through code reviews development practices testing CI/CD monitoring and observability.

• Streamline and automate repeatable processes including brand onboarding and connector creation to help the squad scale effectively.

• Support operational readiness and incident response in a fast-paced client-facing environment.

• Help engineers develop their skills through technical guidance collaboration and shared problem-solving.

• 6 years of experience building large-scale distributed web platforms or APIs including 12 years in a technical lead mentoring or delivery ownership role.

• Strong software architecture and engineering fundamentals including design patterns and modern development practices.

• Hands-on experience with Java/Spring JavaScript frameworks and GraphQL or REST APIs.

• Broad system design knowledge across frontend and backend systems including messaging databases and cloud infrastructure.

• Experience improving software quality through testing CI/CD containerization observability and operational practices.

• Strong communication and judgment with the ability to make practical technical trade-offs and collaborate effectively across teams in a client-facing environment.

• Fluency in English. Italian language skills are a plus.

• Ability to work full-time in a hybrid model based in Milan (3 days in the office per week).

Additional Details

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors including location skills and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a range of insurance coverage (including medical) and/or other benefits (including retirement plan eligibility and various paid time off benefits such as PTO wellbeing and parental leave). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided upon an offer of employment.

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