Senior Tech Lead

PayPal-posted about 1 month ago

Full-time • Mid Level

Hybrid • Austin, TX

5,001-10,000 employees

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We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to serve as the Senior Tech Lead across multiple scrum teams within our Merchant Integrations group. You'll be at the technical helm of some of our most critical initiatives-building secure, scalable systems that power integrations used by merchants around the globe. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role for someone ready to shape architecture, influence best practices, and lead others across a modern tech stack.

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
Lead architecture and technical decisions across teams
Serve as a point of contact for system design and cross-team collaboration
Design and build distributed systems using AWS, Java, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, and more
Participate in on-call rotations, ensuring reliability and incident response
Develop and execute short- and long-term API strategy that aligns with Product goals, ensuring the best experience for our merchants.
Oversee the development and optimization of API endpoints, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align API design and implementation with rapidly changing business objectives.
Conduct code reviews to maintain high-quality standards and ensure adherence to best practices in various languages and platforms

Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
8+ years of software engineering experience
Proven leadership across multiple teams or large-scale systems
Deep experience with cloud-native architecture (preferably AWS)
Excellent leadership, verbal and written communication skills.
Deep GraphQL API backend experience and developing complex mutations.
Proficient in at least two of: Java, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails
Solid understanding of distributed systems and cloud architectures.
Ability to present technical problems to non-technical audiences.
Comfortable navigating ambiguity, influencing cross-functional teams, and driving decisions across orgs

Experience working with payment systems, identity platforms, or edge networking is a plus

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.

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