Lead Ios Software Engineer

About The Team And The Role

The View Item and Transaction Flows Engineering team occupies a crucial space at the heart of eBay, crafting the experiences that shape how millions of users discover, interact with, and purchase items across all devices and browsers. This highly visible team leads development of features including item details, auctions, offers, and SEO-optimized landing experiences—driving significant revenue and reaching a global audience. Agile collaboration, rapid experimentation, and continuous user feedback fuel the team's drive to innovate and improve customer delight. You'll be joining a group that emphasizes scalable, responsive systems, meaningful impact, and supports an inclusive, growth-oriented team culture. This role reports into an engineering leader overseeing critical user-facing functionalities.

What You Will Accomplish

1. Architect and deliver solutions powering high-visibility transactional flows, directly influencing core eBay outcomes and marketplace revenue.
2. Foster team productivity by introducing improvements and advocating best practices that accelerate engineering velocity and quality across a large functional area.
3. Influence technical direction and decision-making, guiding domains to successful, scalable outcomes as a technical mentor and coach.
4. Collaborate across multi-functional product, design, and services teams to co-create innovative, high-impact user experiences.
5. Champion learning through knowledge sharing sessions, personal growth, and continuous experimentation, contributing to both team and organizational success.
6. Shape the future of mobile architecture at eBay by identifying system gaps, integrating flexibility, and driving forward a robust engineering roadmap.

What You Will Bring

• 12+ years' professional experience in native mobile development, including mastery of advanced Swift features and iOS APIs.
• Demonstrated ability to design and maintain shared libraries and modular patterns for large, complex applications—with experience collaborating with 50+ engineers.
• Proficiency in advanced debugging, CI/CD optimization, and monitoring/improving app performance at scale.
• Deep expertise in backend API integrations (REST/GraphQL), networking protocols, architecture decisions, and agile methodologies.
• Exceptional interpersonal and documentation skills with a strong growth mindset—committed to mentoring, collaboration, and driving positive team culture.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience; familiarity with project tracking/reporting tools (e.g., Jira), and willingness to continuously learn and adapt in fast-paced environments.

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

$152,400 - $247,800

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 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). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employees will be in an "at-will position" and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

eBay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at talent@ebay.com. We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible. View our accessibility statement to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities.