At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives.

Job Description Summary:
What you need to know about the role: The PayPal Merchant Integration team is looking for a talented and highly motivated seasoned architect to join the team. You will serve as a key technologist in the team responsible for designing the API specification, payment processing, and building up security components both for client SDKs and server API interactions. Meet our team: The merchant integration team empowers our merchants and partners with seamless integration solutions, enabling them to effortlessly link their systems to our user-friendly API and SDK toolkits. Joining this dedicated team, you will contribute high-quality code to help turn this mission into a reality.

Job Description:
Your way to impact:

In this position, you will architect platforms and make design decisions that impact millions of merchants and consumers across the globe. You will be the go-to person for all API services and infrastructure that support PayPal customers. You will closely collaborate with enterprise architecture, infrastructure, program management, engineering, and product teams to refine and deliver the strategies and build technical & solution architecture for large initiatives. You will work with partners and conduct technical assessments and impact analysis.

Your day to day:

• Develop a strong partnership with global business, product, and engineering leaders to define business, product, and technology architecture
• Gain a deep understanding of domain and industry best practices to develop technical vision and strategy
• Define and maintain long-term architecture (LTA) for merchant integration
• Effectively communicate technology strategies and trade-offs both to senior and executive management and to development teams
• Review solution designs to determine their technical viability and their relevance to the business goals
• Responsible for creating simple APIs, and easy integration patterns for external services
• Develop and govern repeatable design strategies and patterns to ensure consistent solutions
• Guide engineering teams toward a common methodology
• Work with the engineering team on Proof of Concepts
• Serve as a mentor and coach for less experienced engineers, sharing your expertise and insights to foster professional growth.
  
  
  

What you need to bring:

• A Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 10+ years of relevant work experience required
• Fluency in programming languages such as Java, Node, Python
• Expert with frameworks, and platform trends in the space of Data and Distributed Systems – Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Elastic Search, Graph DB, etc.
• Ability to lead various Technology Assessments.
• Broader knowledge of infrastructure and info security
• Familiarity with frameworks such as Spring Boot, Spring Data, and microservices methodology.
• Documenting Solution Design and Architecture
• Options Analysis and Recommendations with costs/benefits, high-level tradeoffs, constraints, and assumptions
• Define/Refine Architecture Guidelines and Principles
• Detailed Designs (RESTful API design)
• Delivering proof of concepts and reference implementations
• Excellent communication skills; verbal, written, and presentation skills and interpersonal skills
• Mentor and direct architects and engineers
• Cross-functional collaboration with various stakeholders and partners (Business, Product, Engineering, and Architecture)
• Comfortable with context-switching and managing across multiple priorities
• Make high-quality decisions with limited information
• Thrive in an environment of constant change
• Be a quick learner undaunted by complex systems. Ability to expand to new domains and be able to pick up and contribute quickly
• Experience in the payments or eCommerce industry
• Prior knowledge of Risk Management and Fraud Detection technologies in the Payments industry is a plus
• Prior experience in active-active, multi-AZ, and multi-region processing is a huge plus
• We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.
  
  
  

PayPal is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

Actual Compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to work location, and relevant skills and experience.

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is $107300 to $259600

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 https://www.paypalbenefits.com

Who We Are:

To learn more about our culture and community visit https://about.pypl.com/who-we-are/default.aspx

PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering more than 400 million consumers and merchants in more than 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit paypal.com.

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 paypalglobaltalentacquisition@paypal.com.

As part of PayPal’s commitment to employees’ health and safety, we have established in-office Covid-19 protocols and requirements, based on expert guidance. Depending on location, this might include a Covid-19 vaccination requirement for any employee whose role requires them to work onsite. Employees may request reasonable accommodation based on a medical condition or religious belief that prevents them from being vaccinated.

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