Senior Software Engineer

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 & Preferred Qualifications :

• Lead engineering efforts and team level processes by defining outcomes for others, refining ongoing processes, and providing technical advice to senior leaders on systems, solutions, challenges, and strategy.
• Support end-to-end ownership of design, implementation and operational excellence of software components while proactively improving existing structures and processes.
• Contribute to the technical engineering roadmap by completing quality and thorough assessments of implementation alternatives and their associated trade-offs and providing recommendations.
• Provides technical leadership for a small team with minimum guidance from management or senior teammates.
• Design, estimate and implement new and refactored software services on the platform securely, reliably and at scale. Take ownership of quality of design and implementation of software components.
• Deliver high quality code on time and follow our SDLC process.
• Own the performance and availability of the services as well as participate in on call rotations and provide support during incidences.
• Have an appetite to learn and contribute to complex projects alongside your colleagues.

Requirements:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced skills with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching solutions (e.g. Redis, ElastiCache, Hazelcast) and messaging/queuing protocols/systems such as SQS/Kafka/RabbitMQ/Pulsar
• Ability to lead projects and mentor all levels of engineering staff, along with managing relationships with Product, Engineering Operations and non-technical business and support teams
• Expert with distributed services and backend systems
• Expertise with building services on public cloud – preferably AWS or GCP, Azure
• Experience in managing infrastructure as code using Terraform
• Experience working with fault-tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems.