Principal Frontend Software Engineer, Ads Platform
About The Position
PayPal Ads’ vision is to be the premier commerce-centric advertising platform, seamlessly connecting PayPal, Venmo, and Honey users with advertisers and merchants. We connect advertisers and merchants, enabling consumers to discover and buy what they love. Leveraging transaction data from approximately a quarter of the world’s $6 trillion in digital commerce and nearly 400 million active accounts annually, our platform empowers advertisers to engage customers through the entire marketing funnel—from awareness to purchase, loyalty, and advocacy. This role will act as the architect, leading our frontend development across Web, iOS and Android. You'll design, develop, and optimize core systems powering millions of interactions daily, delivering innovative solutions that delight customers and drive business success.
Requirements
- 10+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
Nice To Haves
- Worked in the Ad space and worked on Ad Management systems, gained significant ads domain experience.
- Experienced on building Ad platforms or integrating with Retail Media Networks.
- Track record designing and shipping large-scale, low latency, highly available distributed Ads systems.
- Proven mentorship of Senior/Staff engineers and effectiveness establishing technical standards and communities of practice.
- API platform experience (REST/gRPC/GraphQL), SDK/developer experience mindset, and a bias for cost aware, operable designs.
- Excited about working on large-scale, consumer-facing mobile and web applications
Responsibilities
- Increases results & effectiveness of all software engineers in a large domain
- Sets the technology roadmap for a domain
- Adapts their role to the need, selecting the most effective means of realizing their technical goals
- Provides advice and counsel to senior executives within PayPal, influencing the development of multi-year business strategies
- Exercises wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments and takes initiative to achieve results
- Handles ambiguous and unfamiliar situations and uses creativity to deliver decisive resolutions
- Uses discovery & exploratory research, not being limited to technical domains, to make successful decisions
- Identifies themes & trends that span projects and teams, and finds broadly impactful opportunities for improvement
- Uses professional savvy to determine when industry-standard solutions can be adopted, versus when a problem space warrants a novel solution (“build/buy”)
- Mentor others as a means of propagating technical influence, and to enhance the performance of their organization
- Own the multiyear architecture for PayPal Ads systems.
- Partner with product, risk, compliance, data, and finance to align technical choices to business outcomes; translate complex tradeoffs into clear, executive ready decisions.
- Grow Staff+ engineering capability: lead architecture reviews, create reusable frameworks and reference designs, and raise the quality bar across multiple teams.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
