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Senior Software Architect

Senior Software Architect

BraintreeLoves Park, Illinois, US
27 days ago
Job description

The Company

Please read the information in this job post thoroughly to understand exactly what is expected of potential candidates.

PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.

Job Description Summary :

PayPal China Technology team is looking for a talented, highly motivated, and seasoned architect to join the team. The person will serve as a key technologist in the team responsible for architectural design and technical solutions. The ideal candidate is a self-starter and self-motivated individual with strong consulting, technology skills, commitment to quality, positive work ethic and a "can do" attitude.

Job Description : Your way to impact-

In this position, you will architect platforms and make design decisions that impact millions of merchants and consumers in China and across the global. You will be the go-to person for all back end systems and infrastructure that support Chinese customers. You will closely collaborate with global architecture, infrastructure, program management, engineering and product teams to refine and deliver the strategies and build technical & solution architecture for large initiatives. You will work with partners and conduct technical assessments and impact analysis.

Your day to day –

In your day-to-day role you will :

  • Develop a strong partnership with China and global business, product, and engineering leaders to define business, product, and technology architecture.
  • Gain a deep understanding of domain and industry best practices to develop technical vision and strategy.
  • Define and maintain long term architecture (LTA) for China and other geo-locations globally.
  • Effectively communicate technology strategies and trade-offs both to senior and executive management and to development teams.
  • Review solution designs to determine their technical viability and their relevance to the business goals.
  • Responsible for creating simple APIs, easy integration patterns for external services.
  • Develop and govern repeatable design strategies and patterns to ensure consistent solutions.
  • Guide engineering teams toward a common methodology.
  • Work with the engineering team on Proof of Concepts.
  • Be an extended team member to the global enterprise architecture team.

What do you need to bring-

  • 10+ years of relevant work experience required.
  • Fluency in programming languages such as Java, Node, Python.
  • Expert with frameworks, platform trends in the space of Data and Distributed Systems – Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Elastic Search, Graph DB, etc.
  • Ability to lead various Technology Assessments.
  • Broader knowledge of infrastructure and info security.
  • Familiarity with frameworks such as Spring Boot, Spring Data, and microservices methodology.
  • Documenting Solution Design and Architecture.
  • Delivering proof of concepts and reference implementations.
  • Excellent communication skills; verbal, written, and presentation skills and interpersonal skills.
  • Mentor and direct architects and engineers.
  • Cross-Functional collaboration with various stakeholders and partners (Business, Product, Engineering, and Architecture).
  • Comfortable with context switching and managing across multiple priorities.
  • Make high-quality decisions with limited information.
  • Thrive in an environment of constant change.
  • Be a quick learner undaunted by complex systems. Ability to expand to new domains and be able to pick up and contribute quickly.
  • Experience in the payments or eCommerce industry.
  • Prior knowledge of Risk Management and Fraud Detection technologies in the Payments industry is a plus.
  • Prior experience in active-active, multi-AZ, multi-region processing a huge plus.
  • Fluent English and Mandarin-speaking is a plus.
  • Travel may be required.

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