What you need to know about the roleAs a member of the Blockchain, Crypto and Digital Currencies (BCDC) Transfers team, you will be responsible for the design, development and delivery of PayPal’s cryptocurrency products, including PYUSD and other cutting-edge projects. In this role, you will bring your expertise and experience to build the infrastructure for fast scaling and high reliability utilizing cloud-based technologies. You will collaborate with internal and external partners to design and deliver new technologies to the market.
Your day to day
- Design, estimate and implement new and refactored software services on the platform securely, reliably and at scale. Takeownership of qualityof design and implementation ofsoftware components.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Demonstrate end-to-end ownership of features, projects, modules, and services that you and your team deliver in all phases of the software development lifecycle.
- Act as a strong advocate for clean, scalable, high-performing, secure, and reliable software services, in all areas, including coding, documentation, automation, etc.
- Provide deep knowledge into the cryptocurrency space, research and learn new concepts to fit them into our product.
- Have an appetite to learn and contribute to complex projects alongsideyour colleagues.
- Participate in code reviews.
- Interact with various non-engineering teams such as product, support, finance, risk and compliance.
What do you need to bring
- Bachelor’s and/or master’s in computer science, or a related field of study, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of experience with Python or equivalent high-level programming language.
- Proven expertise with GCP or other public cloud platforms, distributed services and backend systems.
- Expertise with SQL relational databases, caching solutions (e.g Redis) and messaging/queuing systems (e.g PubSub, Kafka, RabbitMQ).
- Experience in managing infrastructure as code using Terraform or similar frameworks.
- Expertise with cloud monitoring such as Datadog/Splunk or equivelant.
- Blockchain and cryptography experience – optional.
Our Benefits:
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