Staff Engineer Mobile Android

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. About the team and the role: TCGplayer connects hobbyists and hobby businesses to communities. We constantly improve how people exchange items and ideas that fuel their passions. We offer compelling destinations and tools for collectible card game fans and professional sellers. Now part of eBay, TCGplayer promotes and grows products by linking millions of buyers with tens of thousands of retailers in a $25 billion global hobby market. The Mobile Application Team owns our dedication to empower hobbyists to effortlessly engage with our marketplace, driving growth and dedication. We embody innovation, agility, and a relentless focus on the hobbyist to build outstanding experiences. Our mobile engineering team thrives on a core foundation of quality, collaboration, ownership, and an unwavering dedication to excellence. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will architect and develop outstanding mobile experiences that empower our hobbyists. We are looking for a team member driven by user-centric approaches, innovation, collaboration, agility, and dedication to quality. You will lead the charge in critical architectural and development guidelines 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. What you will accomplish: • Provide technical leadership for mobile engineering across the organization, influencing architecture, standards, and guidelines • Build, architect, and hands-on develop high-quality native mobile solutions that scale to millions of users • Drive the mobile platform architecture, ensuring security, reliability, performance, and an outstanding user experience • Define and influence the mobile technical roadmap, balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform health • Partner closely with product managers, designers, backend engineers, cloud platform teams, and ML engineers to deliver cohesive, end-to-end features • Lead initiatives that improve development velocity, quality, observability, and operational excellence • Identify technical risks early, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and implement mitigation strategies • Champion guidelines for development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and on-call readiness • Architect on-device, cloud-assisted, and hybrid AI solutions, making informed tradeoffs around performance, privacy, battery usage, and offline behavior • Ship Product features capabilities using feature flags, experimentation frameworks, and gradual rollouts, and iterate based on real-world usage and feedback What you will bring: • 12+ years of experience building native mobile applications, with deep, hands-on expertise in Android (Kotlin required) • Deep understanding of mobile architecture, build patterns, lifecycle management, and performance optimization • Experience building secure, consumer-facing mobile apps with high availability and scalability • Hands-on experience with WebView integrations alongside native UI components • Experience with Computer Vision and real-time frame processing • Experience with shared C++ components across iOS and Android • Experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into production mobile applications • Strong understanding of secure data handling & privacy considerations, including PII, consent management, and regional compliance requirements Leadership & Collaboration: • Proven ability to lead through influence, mentor engineers, and raise the technical bar across teams • Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical decisions, tradeoffs, risks, and opportunities to both technical and non-technical collaborators • Experience working in Agile or Scrum environments • Ability to conduct research, analyze results, and apply findings to real-world product decisions • Experience participating in or leading Tier 4 on-call support for critical systems Why You’ll Love Working Here • A culture that values collaboration, diversity, ownership, and passion • Opportunity to work on products used by millions of hobbyists worldwide • The chance to build the future of mobile and AI-powered experiences at scale! 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