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At eBay, we're transforming the future of commerce for enthusiasts worldwide. Search is at the heart of that experience: each query reveals buyer intent, trust, and opportunity. We're developing the next generation of smart, scalable, and progressively autonomous search experiences that assist customers in finding what they want quicker, more intuitively, and more efficiently. We're seeking an Engineering Manager to guide a high-performing software engineering team developing backend services and platforms for agentic and search experiences worldwide. This position suits a leader passionate about growing engineers, crafting clear technical direction, and working in an environment where engineering quality, product impact, and team culture are valued.
Job Responsibility:
Lead a high-performing team building highly available, low-latency backend systems and APIs powering large-scale search and agentic experiences
Mentor and develop engineers, nurture a culture of accountability, inclusion, technical excellence, and operational rigor
Make thoughtful hiring and talent growth decisions
Direct technical strategy and delivery by guiding architecture and implementation of scalable distributed systems using Java, Kotlin, and GraphQL
Enhance reliability, performance, quality, and developer efficiency
Collaborate closely with Product, Applied Science, Build, and peer Engineering teams to translate business priorities into technical plans
Help compose the future of search and discovery
Requirements:
4+ years of experience leading and managing engineering teams
Strong track record of delivering scalable backend systems in production
Experience building and operating distributed systems with demanding availability, performance, and latency requirements
Hands-on technical depth in backend engineering, ideally with Java and/or Kotlin
Experience crafting and delivering APIs and service architectures, including GraphQL, REST, or gRPC
Strong understanding of backend systems, data flows, and platform build
Experience with operational excellence practices such as SLOs, observability, incident management, and postmortems
Ability to turn ambiguous goals into clear execution plans and strong team outcomes
Proven success hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers
Data-driven, ownership-oriented approach passionate about business and customer outcomes
Nice to have:
Experience in search, relevance, discovery, recommendations, or agentic/product intelligence systems
Experience leading teams through platform modernization or periods of rapid growth
Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL systems, event-driven architectures, or streaming technologies such as Kafka
Strong quality approach with experience promoting testing, code reviews, and resilient engineering practices
Experience contributing to agile teams dedicated to constant development
What we offer:
Competitive salary
Performance bonus
RSU equity
Flexible hybrid working model
Generous PTO and family-friendly policies, including parental leave
Learning and growth through mentorship, internal tech communities, and continuous development
Comprehensive benefits that support different stages of life and career
An inclusive culture where you can bring your authentic self to work every day