Distinguished MTS - Seller Engineering
AI summary of the role
Distinguished MTS (individual contributor) reporting to the VP of Engineering, C2C & Seller Experiences, responsible for the architectural vision and technical strategy of eBay's seller platform.
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What you’ll do
- Define and execute the architectural roadmap to transform highly coupled monolithic services into a modern, distributed architecture.
- Apply Domain-Driven Design to descale complex systems into clean bounded contexts for independent team delivery.
- Architect Federated GraphQL to decouple Web and Native Mobile teams from backend release cycles.
- Cultivate psychological safety and a blameless culture while enabling fast, safe-to-fail experiments.
What you’ll bring
- 15–20+ years of engineering experience delivering large-scale distributed systems.
- Deep JVM ecosystem fluency: Java, Kotlin, Scala; plus modern Web FE (React/Node) and Native Mobile (iOS/Android) architectures.
- Proven success modernizing highly coupled monolithic enterprise systems and implementing Federated GraphQL.
- Deep experience with service-based architectures, Domain-Driven Design, and reactive/event-driven systems.
Technologies
Java · Kotlin · Scala · React · Node.js · iOS · Android · Spring · Docker · Kubernetes · Federated GraphQL · Domain-Driven Design
About eBay
Global C2C/B2C marketplace connecting 135M+ buyers and millions of sellers across 190+ markets, increasingly focused on enthusiast verticals (collectibles, fashion resale, refurbished, parts).
Public · 5000+ people
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
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. The Role Reporting directly to the VP of Engineering, C2C & Seller Experiences, you will serve as a lead technical visionary for the platforms and architectures that empower millions of C2C and
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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. The Role Reporting directly to the VP of Engineering, C2C & Seller Experiences, you will serve as a lead technical visionary for the platforms and architectures that empower millions of C2C and professional sellers globally. As a Distinguished MTS, you are a high-impact technical individual contributor responsible for the end-to-end architectural integrity and technical strategy of the Seller journey. In this role, you will define how we build, scale, and transform a high-scale legacy environment into a modern, decoupled ecosystem across Web Front-End, Native Mobile (iOS & Android), and Backend architectures (primarily Kotlin and Java, with a strategic migration away from legacy Scala). [... source excerpt omitted ...] are a practitioner-leader who balances high-level strategic design with hands-on execution, ensuring our systems are optimized for flow efficiency and colleague engagement. Your Responsibilities Outcome-Led Architecture: Move beyond "feature factory" thinking. You will define technical strategies based on Outcome Hypotheses, measuring success through Better Value Sooner Safer Happier (BVSSH) metrics—prioritizing quality, unique business outcomes, time-to-learning, continuous compliance, and developer joy. Legacy Transformation & Modernization: Lead the architectural evolution of our core commerce systems. You will create and execute the roadmap to transform highly coupled monolith [... source excerpt omitted ...] g business continuity while radically improving system maintainability and deployment safety. Domain-Driven Design (DDD) & Descaling: Lead the evolution of our domain boundaries. You will apply the pattern of "Achieve Big through Small"—descaling complex systems into clean, bounded contexts that minimize cognitive load and allow multidisciplinary teams to deliver independently. Client-Oriented Decoupling: Leverage Federated GraphQL to drive consumer-driven contracts. You will architect the graph to empower Web and Native Mobile teams to iterate rapidly and independently of backend release cycles, ensuring a flexible and performant data layer. Optimize for Flow & Learning: Arch
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