Sr. MTS, Software Engineer

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. We are looking for a rockstar engineer to spearhead our Identity Platform. As a senior member of the team, 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. 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.

Responsibilities:
•    Work within a team of highly talented engineers, product and architects to design and develop a highly scalable and configurable Identity Platform
•    Ability to drive design meetings to propose, discuss and refine new features and functionality.
•    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.
•    Maintain and enhance the existing architectural documentations and create the new one as needed
•    You will be involved in all aspects of the project life cycle, from the initial kickoff 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.

Required Skills:
•    Expert on open standards such as OAuth 2.0, Open ID Connect, SCIM, FAPI etc.
•    Expert in back-end development using Java EE technologies (e.g. Java language, application servers, servlet containers, JMS, JPA, Spring MVC, Hibernate).
•    Strong OOP skills, with ability to analyze requirements and transform into scalable software designs.
•    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 (e.g. Spring).
•    Competent in design/implementation for reliability, availability, scalability, and performance.
•    Competent in software engineering tools (e.g. Java 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
•    Demonstrate a high level of curiosity, passion for technology, pride of ownership and strive for excellence
•    Experience with using Agile/Scrum methodology for software development
•    Good understanding of web services and SOA related standards like REST/OAuth/JSON and SOAP/WSDL.
•    Extra credit: Provide your GitHub account or code samples with your resume!

Basic Qualifications:
•    Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.
•    A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals.
•    15+ years of experience building successful production software systems.
•    5+ years of relevant experience in Identity Access Management domain & solid understanding of Identity open standards and specs