Lead Backend Engineer

This role is critical to understand, explore the payments platform within PayPal and think solutions which may span across components/platforms. This role will require to build synergy within Growth markets and with the other partnering teams to deliver outcomes that will add towards the $1B revenue portfolio.

Meet our team:

The Growth Markets Engineering team is responsible for constructing solutions to solve business challenges for markets that are identified to continue, grow, extend PayPal as leader of Online Payments. we'design, develop, and enhance services across PayPal s Payments platform envisaging the next generation cult solutions for Growth Markets. We are the unconventional outfit that set benchmark within PayPal for delivering products with finesse in quality through inner-source and challenge time to market factor for delivering complex yet scalable solutions across Platforms.

Your way to impact:

As Member of Technical Staff, you will play a pivotal role in developing, implementing, and being a watchdog for the most strategically aligned regions within PayPal s Growth Markets Portfolio. You will deep dive and implement robust solutions to complex problems. Our team is fast and agile, and the front runner bearing the torch for inner sourcing. If you are self-driven, passionate, a team- player and have effective communication skills, this role will fascinate you.

Your day-to-day:

• Engage with multiple teams of highly talented engineers and architects to design and develop highly scalable, unique customizable solutions that meet the needs of our customers and stakeholders.
• Actively engage with leadership across Product, Architecture, Design and Engineering to design, propose, discuss and refine new features and functionality.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams, IT, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver innovative solutions that meet organizational needs.
• Communicate with stakeholders on technical standards, principles, methodologies and trends.
• Enhance overall system operational characteristics by establishing best practices for code quality, reduction in tech debt, building frameworks or shared techniques to improve engineering effectiveness.
• Identify opportunities for refactoring, API changes, solution designs and other types of tech debt remediation.
• Influence management for driving technical decision-making for the right selection of technology by giving forthright, understandable, and actionable advice.
• Drive decision-making with team members with different views for simple to complex problems with the business requirements to help synthesize the best solution.
• Engage with business team, highly analytical and have experience designing and implementing A/B tests, with approach like data-based experiments. You know exactly what and how to track business metrics and KPIs.

What you need to bring:

• You must have significant business knowledge and technical expertise in application design and architecture, as we'll as knowledge of related domains of technical architectures scaling Payments, innovative methods, etc
• 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.
• Demonstrated technical leadership experience, or tech lead for high impact customer facing product development.
• You must have experience in modern technologies such as Java (min Java 8, functional programming paradigm is highly recommended), Reactive Spring boot, Algorithms, DSA, SQL, Databases
• Understands use cases for advanced design patterns (eg, service-to-worker, MVC, API gateway, intercepting filter, dependency injection, lazy loading etc) to implement efficient code.
• Strong OOP skills, with ability to analyze requirements and transform into scalable software designs.
• Deep understanding of modern web applications design architecture, good API design patterns, performance, and scale.
• Deep understanding of webservices, Native apps such as iOS, Android and related working fundamentals.
• Experience with HTTP, REST APIs and competent designing and building web services/microservices in a commercial setting.
• Experience with Design Patterns, MVC and frameworks (eg Spring).
• Competent in software engineering tools (eg Java build tools) and best practices (eg unit testing, functional testing/test automation, continuous integration, etc).
• Serve as a strong advocate of code craftsmanship, good coding standards and use of tools that will improve the quality of the delivered code.
• Experience with using Agile/Scrum methodology for software development.
• Deep understanding of web services and SOA related standards like REST/OAuth/JSON and SOAP/WSDL.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor s or master s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals.
• 10-14 years of experience building successful production software systems and solutions