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Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.
About Team and Role:
TCGplayer connects hobbyists and hobby businesses to communities. We relentlessly improve the exchange of things and thoughts that fuel passions, providing the most compelling destination and tools for collectible card game enthusiasts and professional sellers! TCGplayer, now a part of eBay, promotes and drives growth of our products and services by connecting a global community of millions of buyers with tens of thousands of retailers in a $25B global collectible hobby market.
The Mobile Application Team owns our commitment to empower hobbyists to effortlessly engage with our marketplace, driving growth and loyalty. We embody innovation, agility, and a relentless focus on the hobbyist to create exceptional experiences. Our mobile engineering team thrives on a core foundation of quality, collaboration, ownership, and an unwavering commitment to excellence.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will architect and develop exceptional mobile experiences that empower our hobbyists. We are looking for a team member driven by user-centric approaches, innovation, collaboration, agility, and commitment to quality. You will lead the charge in critical architectural and development standard methodologies that define our mobile application products. Your strategic vision and leadership will be key in ensuring our mobile experience is at the forefront of technology and provides unparalleled hobbyists experiences.
What you will accomplish:
Provide technical expertise for mobile engineering across the organization, influencing architecture, standards, and best practices
Design, architect independent feature with hands-on develop high-quality native mobile solutions that scale to millions of users
Partnering with Lead on mobile platform architecture, ensuring security, reliability, performance, and an exceptional user experience
Influence the mobile technical roadmap, balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform health
Partner closely with Staff/lead Engineer, designers, backend engineers, cloud platform teams, and ML engineers to deliver cohesive, end-to-end features
Lead initiatives that improve development velocity, quality, observability, and operational excellence
Identify technical risks early, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and implement mitigation strategies
Champion best practices for development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and on-call readiness
Ship Product features capabilities using feature flags, experimentation frameworks, and gradual rollouts, and iterate based on real-world usage and feedback
What you will bring:
7+ years of experience building native mobile applications, with deep, hands-on expertise in Android (Kotlin/Jetpack required)
Deep understanding of mobile architecture, design patterns, lifecycle management, and performance optimization
Experience building secure, consumer-facing mobile apps with high availability and scalability
Hands-on experience with WebView integrations alongside native UI components
Experience with Computer Vision and real-time frame processing.
Experience with shared C++ components across iOS and Android.
Experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into production mobile applications
Strong understanding of secure data handling & privacy considerations, including PII, consent management, and regional compliance requirements
Collaboration:
Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical decisions, tradeoffs, risks, and opportunities to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Experience working in Agile or Scrum environments
Ability to conduct research, analyze results, and apply learnings to real-world product decisions
Experience participating in “on-call” support for critical systems.
A culture that values collaboration, diversity, ownership, and passion
Opportunity to work on products used by millions of hobbyists worldwide
The chance to shape the future of mobile and AI-powered experiences at scale
Additional Details
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