Lead Mobile Architect - iOS

Meet our Team: Identity Engineering team is responsible for providing the Identity Access Management capabilities for PayPal users and partners. We design, develop, enhance services that get called across every interaction between PayPal and its users and partners. Our solutions need to scale across billions of such interactions, working with petabyte plus data, integrating with various other APIs in real time and yet providing high availability and configurability to the business. To achieve this, we are always looking at advances in technology and science and tying those back to business needs. What you need to know about the role: We are looking for a Rockstar engineer to spearhead our Identity mobile native platform development. As a Senior Member of Technical Staff – Mobile Native / iOS Engineer , you will architect and implement robust solutions to the complex problems. Our team is fast and innovative, following agile methodologies. If you are self-driven, passionate, a team-player and have effective communication skills, this role will fascinate you.

Your way to impact

You will be responsible for working with a team of engineers in design, development, test, and deployment of a range of products on web and mobile platforms. A successful candidate will have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences, a strong technical ability, excellent project execution skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.

Your day to day

• Creating thought leadership within the area of technology specialization and in compliance with guidelines and Policies

• Collaborate with Chief Architect & Enterprise Architect group to ensure we take right Architecture Decisions and have a seamless Modernization Journey

• Work with Engineering team, Product Management, UX designers & Other domain Leads in meeting our Release Goals

• Ability to collaborate with technology and business partners across PayPal to provide strategic input into the long-term direction and roadmap

• Work within a team of highly talented engineers, product and architects to design and develop a highly scalable and configurable Identity Platform

• 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.

• You will be involved in all aspects of the project life cycle, from the initial kick off through the requirements analysis, design and implementation.

• 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, will also be responsible for communicating to stakeholders on technical standards, principles, methodology and trends.

• Highly analytical, innovative, and able to think strategically and to develop comprehensive detailed specifications.

• Highly effective at working in cross-functional groups and getting results in matrix organizations.

• Experience in engineering support of a product through a PDLC. Working knowledge of finance industry standards and practices preferred.

What do you need to bring

• Strong technical knowledge and Hands-on experience on iOS and Android apps design, architecture

• Experience Leading design and implementation of consumer grade experience IOS and Android apps

• Good Knowledge in frameworks, architecture and product lifecycle management ; Architectural patterns, Design Patterns, UML

• Would be advantage if individual has back-end development using Java EE technologies (e.g. Java language, application servers, servlet containers, JMS, JPA, Spring MVC, Hibernate).

• Experience with HTTP, REST API's and competent designing and building web services/microservices in a commercial setting.

• Knowledge of SQL and other/NoSQL/modern database and storage technologies. Desired understanding of Oracle, JDBC and ORM frameworks (e.g. Hibernate).

• Experience with Design Patterns, MVC and frameworks

• Competent in design/implementation for reliability, availability, scalability, and performance.

• Competent in software engineering tools (e.g. Mobile native build tools) and best practices (e.g. unit testing, test automation, continuous integration, etc.).

• Should be 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

• Extra credit: Provide your GitHub account or code samples with your resume!

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 15+ years of experience building successful production software systems or equivalent.

**We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.