# Senior Technical Program Lead

**Company**: PayPal
**Location**: Austin, Texas
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $160,500.00 - $238,700.00 Annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

This job acts as a project leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers, determining technical tasks, and improving existing structures and processes.

**Essential Responsibilities:**

- Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system

- Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow

- Actions result in the achievement of customer, operational, program or service objectives

- Proactively improves existing structures & processes

- Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities (time, quality, complexity risk) to identify optimal solutions to problems

- Notices patterns and condenses repetition into densely meaningful generalized solutions

- Collaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor

- Trusted to represent PayPal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations

**Additional Responsibilities:**

- Lead complex architectural discussions that span multiple systems, and author and present architecture decision records (ADRs)

- Identify product and functionality gaps, and collaborate with internal product and technology teams to define the development needed to deliver solutions

- Drive integration efforts and lead critical work streams of strategic initiatives sponsored by senior executives

- Drive engineering excellence by creating reusable, production-ready frameworks, and challenge the status quo when needed

- Drive engineering excellence through CI/CD and automation

- Proactively identify and troubleshoot integration and technical issues, and lead root cause analysis for production incidents

- Reduce technical debt, with a clear plan to remove it from the system

**Benefits:**

- Comprehensive, choice-based programs to support all aspects of personal wellbeing,physical, emotional, and financial

- Generous paid time off

- Healthcare coverage for you and your family

- Resources to create financial security and support your mental health

**Requirements:**

- 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience

- Proficiency in at least one backend language (Java, Go, or Python)

- Experience with backend development experience, including designing and implementing scalable, reliable RESTful services

- Experience with at least one cloud platform (GCP, AWS, or Azure)

- Advanced skills with relational and NoSQL data stores, including database design and data modeling, and familiarity with ORM tools

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Go
- Python
- backend development
- cloud platform
- database design

### Nice to have
- Spring
- Redis
- Aerospike
- Hazelcast
- Kafka
- Pulsar
- RabbitMQ
- SQS
- Kubernetes

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