eBay
Staff Engineer, API Design & Governance
Toronto · Staff+
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JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaKotlinReactDistributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentCode ReviewGitAPI DevelopmentGraphQLRESTUX DesignAccessibilityAgileLeadershipMicrosoft Office
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About the role
- A key focus of this role is designing clear, scalable, and well-governed APIs and service contracts that enable consistent, high-quality integration across systems.
- Architect high-traffic, distributed systems across multiple domains
- Write high-quality, maintainable, and performant code
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable, resilient fullstack systems supporting core platform capabilities
- Lead the design of robust, intuitive, and evolvable APIs and service contracts
- Define and enforce standards for API design, documentation, versioning, observability and governance
- Drive clarity and consistency in technical specifications, ensuring they are precise, consumable, and scalable
- Lead complex technical initiatives end-to-end, from design through production rollout
- Apply SOLID principles and advanced design patterns to ensure clean, extensible architectures
- Design multi-threaded and highly concurrent systems with strong performance guarantees
- Collaborate with Product, UX, Data, and Business teams to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in the software industry
- Proven ability to design and operate GraphQL APIs in large-scale systems, with strong understanding of API architecture (alongside REST/RPC), versioning strategies, and efficient data fetching patterns.
- Experience with agentic coding assistants like claude code, cursor or github copilot
- Strong understanding of system performance, availability, and observability
Nice to have
- Experience with Federated GraphQL architectures (e.g., Apollo Federation or similar)
- Experience designing and scaling modern frontend systems using TypeScript/JavaScript with frameworks such as React (or similar)
- Experience with microservices and cloud-native architectures
- Background in large-scale platforms or multi-tenant architectures
- Experience with search systems, recommendation engines, pricing systems, or payment flows
- Experience driving technical strategy across multiple team
- Makes sound architectural trade-offs balancing performance, cost, and development velocity
- Customer-obsessed outlook - understands how technical decisions impact performance, reliability, and user experience
Company info
- eBay's Developer Ecosystem team offers resources that help developers create solutions to make buying and selling on eBay faster and easier.
- The team builds and manages eBay's Public APIs and eBay's world-class Developer Portal, which helps onboard new developers, gets them started with eBay APIs, and answers their questions about our products.
- APIs are first-class products at eBay.
- APIs allow our developer community to create powerful experiences and manage their eBay business at scale.
- Our goal is a large ecosystem of developer applications that contribute to our buyers and sellers.
This listing is sourced directly from eBay's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.