PayPal Staff Software Engineer - iOS 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

570400080

This job acts as a project leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers, determining technical tasks, and improving existing structures and processes. It involves making technical decisions, collaborating with management to set standards, and representing the company to external partners.

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.

Job Summary:

As a Staff Software Engineer for PayPal Checkout, you will provide technical leadership for your development team and you will lead the team’s participation in all phases of our software development lifecycle. In this role, you will be responsible for shaping the future of PayPal's customer facing checkout products. This will be accomplished through technical leadership, implementation of technical designs, direct contributions to architectural decisions, influencing the technical direction of our client-side applications and mentoring of junior engineers. You will be responsible for developing industry-leading experiences that bring unquestionable value to both merchants and buyers. You will use your years of technical expertise and a solid understanding of the business domain to help us improve the scale, reliability, and performance of our platforms

As an iOS Staff Software Engineer, you will:

• Makes technical decisions affecting multiple teams, crossing organizational boundaries
• Establishes conventions & processes to be followed by other employees
• Actions determine the utilization of company resources (people, money, assets) and affect the effectiveness of the company
• Handles multiple, multi-team initiatives simultaneously, using judgement to prioritize among more issues than can be handled individually.
• Understands evolving industry capabilities & practices and can judiciously apply up--to-date information for optimal results
• Competent at communicating technical issues with non-technical audiences
• Spreads their behavior, principles, and knowledge as a means of improving technical results of other employees (via many means – modelling behaviour, 1:1s, working sessions, quality documentation)
• Partners with product management, to ideate solutions to business problems & goals
  

What you need to bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 8+ years of hands-on mobile development experience (iOS).
• Experience in designing, developing and delivering software and/or platforms (libraries)
• Deep expertise in mobile technologies and architecture.
• Solid understanding of Cocoa Frameworks
• Strong object-oriented skills including design, coding and testing patterns.
• Familiarity with database technologies (SQL and NoSQL databases) and ORM frameworks (Hibernate, JPA).
• Ability to design scalable, reliable, and maintainable software systems.
• Thorough understanding of XCode
• Proven ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with mobile payment technologies and integrations
• Proficiency in Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin, Java, and React Native.
• Familiarity with continuous integration (Jenkins), application monitoring (Crashlytics and fabric.io), mocking tools (Appium and Apiary), build tool development and enhancements, using unit testing and cucumber tests for functional tests
• Familiar and comfortable with iOS technologies, the trade offs, and the design patterns emerging.
• Knowledge of mobile performance optimization techniques.
• Experience with machine learning and AI in mobile applications.
• Strong ability to influence and inspire teams.

Our Benefits:

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