Android Software Engineer

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​The Team:

eBay’s native Focus Category team is a dynamic segment of the company’s marketplace dedicated to delivering a stellar buying experience for our suite of Focus Categories including Parts & Accessories, Vehicles, Fashion, Collectibles and Electronics.

The Native Focus Categories Engineering team is tasked with supporting and implementing all Focus Category-specific features in the core eBay mobile app. We cultivate a culture of drive and innovation, continuously adopting the latest technologies and improving our processes. 

The Role:

As an Android Software Engineer you'll collaborate across multiple domain teams such as Search, View Item, Checkout, and more due to the dynamic nature of the Focus Categories vertical. You'll work on initiatives alongside other native developers in an agile workflow, directly engaging with product, design, and analytics teams to create the best user experience. 

What you will accomplish:

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

• Collaborate with multi-functional teams (Product, Design, Backend) to define, develop, 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 Android tools and practices.
   

What you will bring:

• 4+ years of professional experience in Android development.

• Proficiency in Kotlin (Java experience is a plus), including advanced language features such as coroutines and lambdas.

• Experience building Android applications using Jetpack Compose and/or XML-based UI, with a focus on modern platform design patterns.

• Solid understanding of Android architectural patterns, particularly MVVM and unidirectional data flow.

• Experience developing small to medium-sized features independently.

• Experience writing unit, UI, and automation tests using Android platform tools, with an emphasis on clean, testable code.

• Familiarity with dependency management and build tools such as Gradle and Artifactory.

• Basic understanding of system design principles for large-scale consumer mobile applications.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, production monitoring, and memory management fundamentals.

• Ability to independently translate product and design requirements into clean, well-tested, crash-free, and maintainable production code, including solving issues across development, test, and production environments.

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