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Original Job Post

PayPal · 2 days ago

Senior Software Engineer

San Jose, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$73K/yr - $176K/yr

4+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Understand the Core and complex Identity Problems and build robust solutions, by using Latest technologies and scaling the applications.

Engage with multiple teams of highly talented engineers and architects to design and develop highly scalable, secure and configurable identity solutions that meet the needs of our customers and stakeholders.

Actively engage with leadership across Product, Architecture, Design and Engineering to design, propose, discuss and refine new features and functionality.

Collaborate with other engineering teams, IT, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver innovative identity solutions that meet organizational needs.

Communicate with stakeholders on technical standards, principles, methodologies and trends.

Enhance overall system operational characteristics by establishing best practices for code quality, reduction in tech debt, building frameworks or shared techniques to improve engineering effectiveness.

Identify opportunities for refactoring, API changes, solution designs and other types of tech debt remediation.

Influence management for driving technical decision-making for the right selection of technology by giving forthright, understandable, and actionable advice.

Work with standards defining organizations to understand the evolving standards, identify gaps, provide inputs on platform gaps, contribute to roadmap planning to build world class CIAM platform.

Drive decision-making with team members with different views for simple to complex problems with the business requirements to help synthesize the best solution.

Engage with business team, highly analytical and have experience designing and implementing A/B tests, with approach like data-based experiments. You know exactly what and how to track business metrics and KPIs.

Qualification

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Computer science fundamentalsProduction software systemsIdentity solutionsProblem-solvingTeamworkOAuth 2.0Open ID ConnectSCIMWeb applications designAPI design patternsApplication securityInformation securityAuthenticationAuthorization protocolsCustomer interacting devicesMobile webNative appsTechnical leadershipTech leadDesign patternsService-to-workerMVCAPI gatewayIntercepting filterDependency injectionLazy loadingHTTPREST APIWeb servicesMicroservices

Required

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field

A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals

4-8 years of experience building successful production software systems and Identity solutions

Preferred

Knowledge of Identity standards such as OAuth 2.0, Open ID Connect, SCIM etc.

Deep understanding of modern web applications design architecture, good API design patterns, performance, and scale

Good understanding of application security, information security, web application fundamentals, authentication & authorization protocols

Good understanding of various customer interacting device, browser, mobile web, Native apps such as iOS, Android and related working fundamentals

Demonstrated technical leadership experience, such as being an architect or tech lead for high impact customer facing product development

Understands use cases for advanced design patterns (e.g., service-to-worker, MVC, API gateway, intercepting filter, dependency injection, lazy loading etc) to implement efficient code

Experience with HTTP, REST API's and competent designing and building web services/microservices in a commercial setting

Knowledge of SQL and other/NoSQL/modern database and storage technologies. Desired understanding of Oracle, JDBC and ORM frameworks (e.g. Hibernate)

Experience with Design Patterns, MVC and frameworks (e.g. Spring)

Competent in software engineering tools (e.g. Java build tools) and best practices (e.g. unit testing, test automation, continuous integration, etc.)

Serve as a strong advocate of code craftsmanship, good coding standards and use of tools that will improve the quality of the delivered code

Experience with using Agile/Scrum methodology for software development

You must have significant business knowledge and technical expertise in application design and architecture, as well as knowledge of related domains of technical architectures (network, security, and infrastructure engineering), information architectures, and data architectures

Extra credit: Provide your GitHub account or code samples with your resume!

Benefits

Flexible work environment

Employee shares options

Health and life insurance

Company

PayPal

Glassdoor

3.8

PayPal is a financial service company that provides online payment solutions to its users worldwide.

Founded in 1998

San Jose, California, USA

10,001+ employees

https://www.paypal.com/home

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