Senior Engineering Manager, eBay Selling Team

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Job Title: Senior Engineering Manager, eBay Selling Team

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands (Hybrid)

About the team and the role:

The eBay Selling team builds and scales the core experiences that power how sellers list, manage, and grow their business on eBay. As a Senior Engineering Manager based in Amsterdam (Hybrid), you’ll lead a talented group of full-stack engineers shaping services and applications that impact millions of users globally. Reporting into eBay’s Selling Technology organization, you’ll foster a culture of innovation, inclusion, and engineering excellence while driving architectural strategy and product delivery.

What you will accomplish:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of full-stack engineers, building scalable, reliable, and secure systems that serve eBay’s sellers.
• Guide technical architecture across services and client applications, ensuring reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Oversee CI/CD, blue/green and canary deployments, and production operations including monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Drive the development and integration of robust APIs and event-driven systems, ensuring observability and strong service contracts.
• Partner cross-functionally with product, platform, security, and mobile/web teams to deliver aligned, high-impact solutions.
• Champion engineering standards around testing, documentation, accessibility, and code quality to ensure long-term maintainability.
• Hire, develop, and support engineering talent through coaching, feedback, and clear career growth pathways.

What you will bring:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3–5+ years leading full-stack or platform teams in large-scale, customer-facing environments.
• Proven track record in building and scaling distributed systems using cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Strong hands-on expertise with MongoDB, including schema design, indexing, and performance optimization.
• Deep understanding of service and API development (REST/GraphQL), observability, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience delivering client software across Web, iOS, and Android using modern technologies (React/Next.js, Swift/SwiftUI, Kotlin/Jetpack).
• Demonstrated excellence in people leadership, fostering inclusive, collaborative teams and effective performance management.
• Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Hybrid role based in Amsterdam with a preference for in-office collaboration 3 days per week.