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eBay

Staff Engineer - MTS 2 (Integrations)

Toronto · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 15 days ago
TypeScriptJavaKotlinScalaNode.jsDistributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentAWSCloud PlatformsGraphQLAccessibilityLeadershipCommunication

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Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds40
Fits your clock70

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Green-card filing pattern in this occupation

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eBay Inc. obtained a prevailing wage determination for Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists in Austin, TEXAS on 2026-06-08. No matching green-card filing appears in our data yet. The determination expires in 0 days (2026-09-05), and a green-card filing must follow before then or the employer starts over.+2 more active determinations on file

Green-card follow-through: 93%

Of 44 labor certifications old enough to have been used, 3 expired without the employer filing the next step. Median time from filing to decision: 480 days.100% of their filings were for a worker who already held the job.Only certifications past the 180-day window are counted — recent ones cannot have expired yet.

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About the role

  • Write and ship production code; this role is expected to be heavily hands-on
  • Translate ambiguous business or product goals into clear, scalable technical solutions
  • Help define how eBay capabilities can be exposed as services for other platforms and future integrations

Responsibilities

  • Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers - and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.
  • This is a highly hands-on technical leadership role for an experienced backend engineer who can define architecture, write production code, and drive execution in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
  • The team sits at the center of a strategic initiative to deliver marketplace capabilities such as identity, demand generation, payments, and shipping as reusable services, with the potential to expand across additional platforms over time.
  • Drive architectural discussions, design reviews, and PR reviews across integration workstreams
  • Influence engineering best practices around system design, maintainability, and long-term scalability

Requirements

  • Experience with GraphQL, especially federated graph architectures such as Apollo
  • Experience with Scala, Kotlin, or other JVM languages
  • Familiarity with full-stack or web architecture

Skills

  • AWS or other cloud infrastructure experience

Company info

  • Lead the technical architecture for a marketplace integration team, from early concept through implementation
  • Partner closely with engineering teams to integrate services across distinct platforms and tech stacks
  • Strong hands-on backend engineering experience in Java
  • Proven ability to lead technical architecture and make sound system design decisions
  • Experience building or integrating distributed systems and service-based architectures
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and forming a clear technical point of view with incomplete information
  • Strong individual contributor mindset with a desire to grow as a technical leader rather than a people manager

This listing is sourced directly from eBay's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.