PayPal Distinguished MTS Software Engineer 

United States, California, San Jose 

912552303

Distinguished Software Engineer

What you need to know about the role-

Seeking a highly experienced Distinguished Software Engineer with expertise in mobile and web development. They have the ability to demonstrate working on highly scalable systems within complex organizations.

Your day to day-

• 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 risks in existing systems & opportunities for refactoring, rearchitecting 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.
• Do hands on coding for core components & frameworks, evaluation of newer technologies and guide engineering teams to resolve critical production incidents.
• Work with standards defining organizations to understand the evolving standards, identify gaps, provide inputs on platform gaps, contribute to roadmap planning to build world class CIAM platform.
• 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+ years of experience building successful production software systems and Identity solutions.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals
• You must have significant business knowledge and technical expertise in application design and architecture, as well as knowledge of related domains of technical architectures (network, security, and infrastructure engineering), information architectures, and data architectures.
• Must be a self- starter, work independently or as a team member, and have strong communication skills in interfacing with business partners and the Technology.
• Expert in architecting highly scalable distributed systems in Java/J2EE tech stack.
• Strong OOP skills, with ability to analyze requirements and transform into scalable software designs.
• Experience with HTTP, REST APIs and competent designing and building webservices/microservicesin a commercial setting. Good understanding of REST API standards and documenting REST API contracts using tools like Open API/Swagger. Working knowledge of GraphQL would be a plus.
• Knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL databases and storage technologies. Good understanding of Oracle, JDBC and ORM frameworks (e.g. Hibernate).
• Experience with messaging platforms like Kafka and distributed cache like Redis is desired.
• Competent in software engineering tools (e.g. Java build tools, GitHub) and best practices (e.g. unit testing, test automation, continuous integration, etc.).
• Serve as a strong advocate of code craftsmanship, good coding standards and use of tools that will improve the quality of the delivered code.
• Experience with using Agile/Scrum methodology for software development

Travel Percent:

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 .

The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is

$144800 to $319000

Our Benefits:

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