Lead Software Engineer (Full Stack)

At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to revolutionize commerce globally to make moving money, selling and shopping, personalized and secure. 

Job Description Summary:

What you need to know about the role:
You will be responsible for working with a team of engineers in design, development, test, and deployment of a range of products on web and mobile platforms. A successful candidate will have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences, a strong technical ability, excellent project execution skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.

Meet our team:
Identity Engineer team is responsible for providing the Identity Access Management capabilities for PayPal users and partners. We design, develop, enhance services that get called across every interaction between PayPal and its users and partners. Our solutions need to scale across billions of such interactions, working with petabyte plus data, integrating with various other APIs in real time and yet providing high availability and configurability to the business. To achieve this, we are always looking at advances in technology and science and tying those back to business needs.

Job Description:

Your way to impact:

This position will be working in the mid-tier/back-end level of the tech stack providing server-side solutions in a techstack comprising mostly of Node.JS, GraphQL, JAVA, and scripting languages.

Your day-to-day:

• Work within a team of highly talented engineers, product and architects to design and develop a highly scalable and configurable Identity Platform 

• Being involved in design meetings to propose, discuss and refine new features and functionality. 

• You must have significant business knowledge and technical expertise in application design and architecture, as well as knowledge of related domains of technical architectures (network, security, and infrastructure engineering), information architectures, and data architectures. 

• Maintain and enhance the existing architectural documentations and create the new one as needed 

• You will be involved in all aspects of the project life cycle, from the initial kickoff through the requirements analysis, design and implementation. 

• Must be a self- starter, work independently or as a team member, and have strong communication skills in interfacing with business partners and the Technology, will also be responsible for communicating to stakeholders on technical standards, principles, methodology and trends. 

• Highly analytical, innovative, and able to think strategically and to develop comprehensive detailed specifications. 

• Highly effective at working in cross-functional groups and getting results in matrix organizations. 

• Experience in engineering support of a product through a PDLC. Working knowledge of finance industry standards and practices preferred. 

What you need to bring to the role:

• Expert in back-end development using Java technologies stack using micro-services architecture (e.g. Java language, Node.Js, React.Js etc). 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field. 

• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals. 

• 8+ years of experience building successful production software systems. 

• Strong OOP skills, with ability to analyze requirements and transform into scalable software designs. 

• Experience with HTTP, REST API's and competent designing and building web services/microservices in a commercial setting. 

• Knowledge of SQL and other/NoSQL/modern database and storage technologies. Desired understanding of Oracle, JDBC and ORM frameworks (e.g. Hibernate). 

• Experience with Design Patterns, MVC and frameworks (e.g. Spring). 

• Competent in design/implementation for reliability, availability, scalability, and performance. 

• Competent in software engineering tools (e.g. Java build tools) and best practices (e.g. unit testing, test automation, continuous integration, etc.). 

• Experience with JAVA and JavaScript programming languages 

• Should be a strong advocate of code craftsmanship, good coding standards and use of tools that will improve the quality of the delivered code 

• Demonstrate a high level of curiosity, passion for technology, pride of ownership and strive for excellence 

• Experience with using Agile/Scrum methodology for software development 

• Good understanding of microservices architecture

• Extra credit: Provide your GitHub account or code samples with your resume! 

• Good to have: Experience on Identity standards such as OAuth 2.0, Open ID Connect, SCIM etc. 

• Working knowledge of web technologies (such as HTTP, HTML/DOM, JavaScript) will be beneficial 

Nice-to-Have Skills 

• GraphQL knowledge

  Authentication and Authorisation concepts 

Additional Job Description:

Subsidiary:

PayPal

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Our Benefits:
At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset—you. That’s why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.
We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit

Who We Are:

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PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit  ,   and  .

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at .

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