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
Expected Qualifications:
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualification:
-8+ Strong Java programming skills and familiarity with frameworks like Spring/Spring Boot; plus experience designing, building, and optimizing data workflows on big data platforms.
-3+ years of hands-on experience in big data platform projects (data processing, pipelines, distributed frameworks).
- Solid understanding of database technologies (relational and NoSQL), and experience integrating backend services with large-scale data storage and processing systems.
Demonstrated ability to design and architect AI-driven applications and cloud-based solutions (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), enabling scalable and robust full-stack systems.
Our Benefits:
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