Sr Software Engineer

PayPal•San Jose, CA

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

PayPal, Inc. seeks Sr Software Engineer in San Jose, CA. This role involves designing and developing security, authentication, and identity management software products and features. The engineer will build scalable solutions and seamless experiences in partnership with PayPal’s partner development teams for open-source web applications such as Ruby on Rails in multiple regions. The position requires owning the concept, implementation, and delivery of technical solutions that affect the authentication stories of the entire organization. The role involves close partnership with the product team and cross-functional experts responsible for building a robust user management experience. The engineer will work with business leads and stakeholders to analyze and define technical requirements for achieving compelling customer experiences and identify and eliminate software design or implementation faults. Ensuring compliance with software design principles, operational procedures, site architecture, and component design to enhance monitoring and operation is key. The role also includes mentoring and supporting other engineers, providing hands-on guidance, and sharing technical expertise. Producing modular, well-commented software code that complies with quality assurance best practices, developing automated tests, and delivering high-quality software code to production within a short development cycle in a continuous integration and delivery environment are expected. Defining the overall test strategy, automation strategy, and ensuring testability for assigned software features and scrum teams is also part of the responsibilities. Executing refactoring and technical debt removal initiatives, using business domains during software design and implementation to create products supporting business capabilities, and estimating software engineering effort, planning implementation, and rolling out system changes while maintaining five 9s stability requirements are also key aspects of this role. Implementing software product features focused on design activities in support of overall team implementation is also required. Partial telecommuting is permitted from within a commutable distance.

Requirements

Master’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related field plus three years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
Employer will accept a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related field plus five years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
Experience designing and developing large-scale backend APIs using TTD (3 years).
Experience in Okta IdP integrations with third party systems as well as JWT (JSON Web Token) auth strategies (3 years).
Experience in the development and maintenance of Ruby and Ruby on Rails applications in production environments (3 years).
Experience with Redis and other caching technologies for maximizing app performance (3 years).
Experience on how to maintain and enhance application pipelines powered by Kubernetes (3 years).
Experience with Agile environments with dynamic initiatives (3 years).
Experience with discovery, design, and execution of complex technical projects (3 years).
Experience with cloud-based architectures, specifically AWS (2 years).
Experience with database optimizations and query count management (2 years).
Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

Design and develop security, authentication, and identity management software products and features.
Build out scalable solutions, and seamless experiences in partnership with PayPal’s partner development teams for open-source web applications such as Ruby on Rails in multiple regions.
Own the concept, implementation, and delivery of technical solutions that affect the authentication stories of the entire organization.
Partner closely with the product team and cross-functional experts responsible for building a robust user management experience.
Work with business leads and stakeholders to analyze and define the technical requirements for achieving compelling customer experiences and identify and eliminate software design or implementation of faults that are negatively impacting technical requirements.
Ensure compliance with software design principles, operational procedures, site architecture, and the design of the components to enhance the ability for software components to be monitored and operated.
Mentor and support engineers, providing hands-on guidance and sharing technical expertise to elevate team skills and productivity.
Produce modular, well-commented software code that fully complies with the tools, techniques, and best practices around quality assurance in use by the team.
Develop automated tests and deliver high-quality software code to production within a short development cycle in the continuous integration and delivery environment.
Define the overall test strategy for assigned software features and scrum teams define automation strategy and ensure testability.
Execute refactoring and technical debt removal initiatives as described by senior members of the team.
Use business domains during software design and implementation activities to create software products that support business capabilities.
Estimate software engineering effort, plan implementation, and roll out system changes while maintaining our five 9s stability requirements.
Implement software product features focused on design activities in support of implementation by the overall team.