Essential Responsibilities:
- 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
Minimum Qualifications:
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:
- Designs and implements highly scalable and configurable authorization services using cloud-native technologies
- Writes and maintains high-quality documentation including architectural documentation, API references, quickstarts, and best practices for authorization systems to support both developers and operations teams
- Strong experience with cloud-native engineering practices, including microservices architecture, containerization, and DevOps methodologies.
- Proficiency in identity and access management standards such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and SCIM. Experience with JWT, JWS, JWE, and token-based authentication mechanisms.
- Experience with Java EE technologies, Spring frameworks, and RESTful API development. Knowledge of distributed systems, high-scale system design, and modern database technologies.
- Experience with using Agile/Scrum methodology for software development.
- Experience with large-scale, high-performance systems.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Experience with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB).
- Experience with security frameworks and cryptography principles.
- Contributions to open-source projects.
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