Sr. Software Engineer, iOS, eBay Live

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About the team:

eBay Live Engineering builds and operates the real-time platform supporting eBay’s live shopping and interactive experiences. We combine low-latency video, interactive chat, and commerce actions with robust trust, safety, and analytics—at global scale.

As an iOS Software Engineer, you will guide technical decision-making and own complex projects. You will also uplift engineering practices while reporting to a multi-functional team dedicated to continuous modernization in a dynamic environment.

What you will accomplish: 

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, modular, and loosely coupled features for eBay’s Live iOS application.

• Collaborate with multi-functional teams (Product, Build, Backend) to define, build, and ship new features.

• Ensure performance, quality, responsiveness, and stability of the application.

• Work with backend service teams to design mobile-optimized service contracts.

• Participate in Agile/Scrum processes, providing estimates, identifying risks, and supporting planning and rollout of changes.

• Participate in code reviews and contribute to continuous improvement through adoption of modern tools and practices.

What you will bring:

• 5+ years of professional experience in iOS development.

• Proficiency in Swift, including advanced language features such as generics and concurrency (Objective-C experience is a plus).

• Experience building iOS applications using SwiftUI and/or UIKit, with a focus on state-driven UI.

• Solid understanding of modern iOS architectures, including MVVM and unidirectional data flow, with exposure to or hands-on experience with The Composable Architecture (TCA).

• Experience managing application state, side effects, and navigation using reducers, actions, and stores (or similar concepts).

• Experience integrating APIs, including GraphQL, and working with async/await and Combine where appropriate.

• Familiarity with dependency management tools (SPM, CocoaPods, Carthage) and CI/CD pipelines.

• Ability to independently translate product and design requirements into clean, well-tested, crash-free, maintainable production code.

• Experience writing unit and UI tests, conducting code reviews for the immediate team, and resolving issues across development, test, and production environments.

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 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.

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