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, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards.  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. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade. 

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day.  We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.

Job Description Summary:

What you need to know about the role:
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, including Treasury (cash management & foreign exchange), Pricing (how PayPal prices its merchants and partners), and Merchant and Partner domains.
• 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 maintain with current technologies.
• Guide the selection of technologies across multiple projects and teams and mentor junior team members in the selection and implementation techniques.
• 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, 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 across organizations and with other platform architects to establish technical guidelines, and standards and present pricing domain more effectively for any architecture or design decisions
• Drive decision-making with team members with different views for simple to complex problems with the business requirements 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 the ability to program in other languages like Python, XML, HTML, Unix, and C++
• Understanding of algorithmic techniques/design patterns, experience with Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), and experience with rational databases (NoSQL)
• Nice to haves: preference for Agile, Linux, and Vim and experience in traditional and non-traditional SORs from Oracle to Couchbase and Cassandra. Understanding of cloud technologies
• Payments and Financial service knowledge
• Solid knowledge of emerging best practices in technology to improve the flexibility, functionality, or usability of system components.

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

Subsidiary:

PayPal

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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 (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

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, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

Our Benefits:

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. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

Who We Are:

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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 federal, state, or local law.  In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.  If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at talentaccommodations@paypal.com.

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. Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.

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