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Description
Designing, implementing, and delivering state-of -the-art solutions for Foundational Commons that are in accordance with customer expectations, business aspirations, and platform principles. Collaborate between various internal teams in our global product and engineering organizations, UX designers, content designers, platform and infrastructure teams, database teams, release engineering, site reliability engineering, analytics, etc., and external stakeholders such as technology vendor partners, technology service providers, and staffing vendor partners. Implement and enforce best practices of software engineering that bring agility, quality, performance, scale, security, and efficiency for all products being delivered. Constantly adapt and experiment with new best practices followed within the industry. Understand and enrich technical architecture, design, and implementation patterns by working within PayPal s cross-functional technology teams. Focus on innovation as a key cultural element and optimize for efficiencies by bringing unique solutions to the table and questioning the status quo and refactoring the existing codebase. Manage teams that are accountable for all facets of software development like architecture, design, implementation, quality engineering, release and monitoring. Embrace a data and metrics-driven culture to help make informed decisions . Your way to impact: Customer Centricity: Demonstrate a customer-centric mindset as part of day-to-day work and imbibe the culture among team members. Take a deep interest in the customer journey of our consumers and merchants to understand the challenges they face and optimize opportunities for the product. Function effectively in a dynamically changing competitive and regulatory environment and manage continuously changing business needs. Employee Engagement, Growth, and Talent Attraction: Recruit, mentor, and coach engineering teams towards strengthening a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, and quality. Help team members create their individual career development plans and provide them with resources and support necessary to achieve their career aspirations. Set goals for the team members, and help them track, measure, and in most cases exceed the set goals. Lead with empathy, transparency, clarity, and pragmatism to build trust and camaraderie with and within the team. Participate actively in various India center level activities, as well as activities driven at a global level. Encourage and entertain a culture that nurtures and promotes inclusion and diversity and engages and empowers every team member to bring their best self to work every day. What you need to bring: Bachelor s in Computer Science or Master s in Computer Science degree or related field 15 years in experience in building solutions at scale. A t least 10 years experience leading teams of over 30 engineers Experience with test frameworks and Functional Test frameworks. Exposure to one or more server-side scripting technologies is a plus. Highly Competent in Enterprise Architecture/ Software design & Implementation Good knowledge of REST API s, Web Services. Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS / GCP is desired. Very strong foundational knowledge in Data Structures, Algorithms, SQL/NoSQL, Operating Systems, and Software Engineering Strong object-oriented programming skills and expertise . Deep understanding of various web-scale design paradigms. Good understanding of mobile technologies and frameworks.
