Principal Platform Architect

The Company

PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.

We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources. Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk.

Job Description Summary:

The Pricing and FX Platforms Engineering Team handles the financial infrastructure that supports all verticals within PayPal and enables those verticals to generate revenue. This team supports multiple verticals within PayPal, including Treasury (cash management & foreign exchange), Pricing (how PayPal prices its merchants and partners), and Merchant and Partner domains.

Meet the Team:

This team works very closely with revenue-generating engineering functions—meaning that this team is high-visibility and high-impact here at PayPal. The selected candidate will have a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on scale, performance and customer experience by building highly available and scalable platforms using emerging technologies like Cloud, AI/ML.

Job Description:

Your way to impact:

• You will provide technical leadership across a complex business area for Pricing and FX that supports multiple verticals within PayPal.
• Provide technical direction and support technical and leadership capabilities of other staff members.
• Solid understanding of business systems across multiple domains to shape technical requirements and solutions.
• Strong experience in solutions architecture, distributed systems, and a proven track record of improving teams from a tech stack or technology perspective.

Your day to day:

• Primarily focus on the design of systems but maintain enough hands-on implementation time to stay current with technologies.
• Guide the selection of technologies across multiple projects and teams and mentor junior team members.
• Enhance overall system operational characteristics by establishing best practices for code quality and reduction in tech debt.
• Identify opportunities for refactoring, API changes, and other types of tech debt remediation.
• Influence management for driving technical decision-making for the right selection of technology.
• Work across organizations and with other platform architects to establish technical guidelines and standards.
• Drive decision-making with team members to help synthesize the best solution.

What you need to bring:

• 15-20 years of strong technical experience in distributed and transactional systems.
• Strong experience in Java/J2EE and cloud platform technologies (AWS preferred).
• Knowledge of web services (REST/SOAP), ORM (Hibernate), Spring MVC, and programming in languages like Python, XML, HTML, Unix, and C++.
• Understanding of algorithmic techniques/design patterns, experience with Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), and rational databases (NoSQL).
• Payments and Financial service knowledge.
• Solid knowledge of emerging best practices in technology to improve system components.

Additional Job Description:

Subsidiary: PayPal

Travel Percent: 0

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, equity, and benefits.

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

For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace.

Our Benefits:

At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. We offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life, including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance, and more.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

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 law.

Belonging at PayPal:

Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging.

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don’t hesitate to apply.

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