eBay · 1 week ago
Lead Software Engineer, Agentic AI
Austin, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$136K/yr - $229K/yr
8+ years expeBay is a global ecommerce leader dedicated to changing the way the world shops and sells. The Lead Software Engineer will develop agentic AI capabilities, standardize service interactions, and create scalable services to enhance customer experiences.
AuctionsE-CommerceInternetMarketplaceRetail
Responsibilities
Lead the development of agentic AI capabilities across services, defining multi-agent orchestration and safety patterns
Standardize service interaction patterns across Node.js/TypeScript, Java/Spring Boot, modern web UI frameworks, micro frontend web applications, and Python data pipelines, ensuring industry standard quality
Implement and optimize retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and fine-tuned LLM workflows grounded in policy and transaction data
Develop scalable services that connect with multiple eBay systems, establishing standards for observability, reliability, and operational excellence
Define guardrails, fallback logic, and safety patterns to ensure alignment to compliance, privacy, and auditability
Partner with multi-functional teams to define agent behavior, success metrics, and continuous improvement loops and mentor engineers through reviews, documentation, technical mentorship, and pair programming
Qualification
Required
8+ years of software development experience with strong CS fundamentals and distributed systems expertise and project or team lead experience
Proficiency in developing backend services using Node.js/TypeScript and Java (Spring / Spring Boot)
Experience in crafting and scaling microservices, APIs, and workflow orchestration
Hands-on experience with Open AI SDK's, LLMs, proficiency with session/context storage systems (e.g., NuDocument/NuKV), embeddings, and RAG; strong data modeling and integration with internal/external APIs
Skilled in CI/CD, Git, Docker, and Kubernetes, emphasizing secure coding and operational excellence
Experience with agentic architecture, including agent frameworks, tool-calling protocols and planning/execution patterns
Benefits
Target bonus
Restricted stock units
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
401(k) eligibility
Various paid time off benefits
PTO
Parental leave
Company
eBay
eBay is a global online marketplace enabling users to buy, sell, and auction new or used items across various categories.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.16BKey Investors
Benchmark
2022-11-07Post Ipo Debt· $1.15B
1998-09-24IPO
1998-01-01Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Jamie Iannone
CEO
Alex Kazim
VP, GM eBay Services
Recent News
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