iOS Technical Lead

We are the Selling Experience Engineering Team! We work in small, focused, collaborative project teams and follow an agile methodology. Our cross-functional teams include product management, product development, quality, and user experience research and design. We work together on a daily basis and enjoy collaborating on large-scale, challenging, and interesting problems.

This is a unique opportunity to join a world leader in mobile commerce and directly impact the lives of a global population, while growing the revenue of eBay exponentially.

Our iOS app, with millions of daily active users, facilitates billions in commerce transactions, and is the entry point for a growing number of new customers. You will be focused on delivering comprehensive and innovative experiences to the apps that delight our customers and move the bar on the industry standard.

What you will accomplish:

• Native iOS app development and converting ideas, designs and requirements to concrete stable production builds. Understand and implement iOS specific design patterns.
• Develop and iterate within a rather lean, yet very fast-paced Engineering team.
• Attracting, recruiting, hiring, and retaining a team of native iOS engineers.
• Growing your team through coaching, mentoring, and consistent one-on-one conversations.
• Leading agile development processes, including planning, implementation, testing, demos, and retrospectives for your team.
• Getting into the details, investigating issues, writing code, performing code reviews, and prototyping new solutions.
• Providing expert feedback for code quality, performance, scalability, system architecture, and engineering methodologies.
• Collaborating effectively with product development and engineering teams across multiple domains and multiple geographies.
• Focusing on continuous improvement in our practices, driven from the ground up. We will expect you to advocate for improvements in code and culture, and to support your team in the same.
• Manage a small team of iOS engineers.

What you will bring:

• Your passion for engineering, quality, agility and more.
• 10+ years proven experience in designing, building, refactoring and releasing rich client software using industry standard patterns.
• Experience with iOS XCode, Swift, Swift UI, debuggers (e.g. Charles), revision control systems (e.g. Git) and bug tracking (e.g. Jira). TCA is a plus
• Experience in integration with backend APIs (REST/GraphQL)
• Proven ability to lead the development of multiple features of an application and coordinating cross-team consensus and delivery of a product release.
• Experience with TDD, pairing, code reviews, and other techniques to maintain high-quality code and resiliency.
• Advocacy of automated testing, continuous delivery, and software quality across the software development life cycle.
• Proven track record in successfully delivering large scale enterprise-wide solutions, from design to development to testing to production.
• Be open to having a few iOS engineers report to you, having people management experience is a plus.
• Preferred experience with Swift’s Combine framework: Functional programming, reactive software architecture, decoupled APIs, TCA architecture.
• Excellent understanding of S.O.L.I.D principles and the ability to apply them on their day to day software development.
• Preferred Master's degree in Computer Science, or Bachelor's degree with equivalent experience.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum/Kanban methodologies and working in an agile engineering team.