Senior Software Architect- Shipping

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At eBay, we’re more than a global ecommerce leader — we’re changing the way the world buys, sells, and connects. Our culture is built on passion, innovation, collaboration, and the belief that empowering people creates extraordinary outcomes. If you’re excited by solving complex engineering challenges at massive scale and shaping the future of global commerce, we’d love to talk to you.

Our Shipping team is at the heart of the ecommerce experience, influencing critical buying and selling decisions by delivering the best shipping options and enabling seamless post-purchase delivery experiences for millions of buyers and sellers worldwide.

We build and operate highly scalable distributed systems that power global shipping, fulfillment, and logistics capabilities across eBay’s marketplace. Our mission is to innovate and optimize shipping and logistics experiences to enable borderless commerce at scale.

Role Overview

As a Senior Software Architect, you will play a critical role in defining and evolving the architecture of eBay’s next-generation shipping and logistics platforms. You will provide hands-on technical leadership in designing, building, and operating highly scalable, resilient backend systems that support high-volume, low-latency, and high-availability workloads.

You will partner closely with engineering, product, and business teams to solve complex logistics challenges, drive architectural innovation, and improve platform scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the architecture and design of large-scale distributed systems powering eBay’s Shipping platform

• Drive development of high-performance backend services with strong focus on scalability, reliability, and resiliency

• Define and implement architectural strategies that improve transaction efficiency, system throughput, and customer experience

• Design scalable integrations with global carrier and logistics ecosystems

• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, payments, and fulfillment teams to deliver innovative platform capabilities

• Mentor engineers and technical leads, promoting engineering excellence, best practices, and architectural standards

• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies to improve platform performance, interoperability, and operational efficiency

• Contribute hands-on to critical system design, implementation, troubleshooting, and production operations

What You Bring

• 12+ years of software development experience building large-scale, high-volume distributed systems

• Strong experience designing and architecting microservices-based cloud platforms

• Proven expertise in backend system architecture and scaling platforms for significant user and transaction growth

• Experience in shipping, logistics, supply chain, or fulfillment domains is highly preferred

• Proficiency in Java or Python, with deep understanding of distributed systems and backend engineering principles

• Strong knowledge of cloud-native technologies, APIs, event-driven architectures, and CI/CD practices

• Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems and influence architectural decisions across teams

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Experience working in Agile environments and modern software delivery practices

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)

Additional Details

eBay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at talent@ebay.com. We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible. View our accessibility statement to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities.

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