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