Principal Software Engineer, Front End

The Company

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.

We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards.  Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade. 

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:

The Identity Engineering team is responsible for providing Identity & Access Management capabilities for PayPal users and partners. We design, develop, and enhance services that are called across every interaction between PayPal and its users and partners. Our solutions must scale across billions of such interactions, working with petabyte plus data, integrating with various other APIs in real-time and 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.
PayPal's senior leadership team has made the decision to invest in improving the technical capabilities, security, native and web experiences, and back-end infrastructure of the Identity platform. To do so requires subject matter experts with deep technical experience in Web and native technologies along with experience implementing Identity protocols and standards, cybersecurity best practices, and in building scalable solutions to meet the demands of the customer.
As the Principal member of the Identity Engineering organization, you will play a pivotal role in developing, implementing, and maintaining the customer facing identity and access management capabilities focusing primarily on Web, Mobile Web, iOS and Android mobile native offerings. This role is critical in ensuring the security, scalability, and efficiency of the identity experience, infrastructure, aligning with business objectives and compliance requirements. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of Web application technologies, Mobile devices, Mobile OS and system libraries, hands-on experience building web components and application, identity and access management technologies, strong leadership skills, a strategic mindset, and motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. You will be architecting and implementing cutting-edge, robust solutions to complex problems. Our team is fast and innovative, following agile methodologies. If you are self-driven, passionate about Identity technology, a team-player and have effective communication skills, this role will fascinate you.

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• Engage with multiple teams of highly talented engineers and architects to design and develop highly scalable, secure and configurable identity solutions that meet the needs of our customers and stakeholders.
• Actively engage with leadership across Product, Architecture, Design and Engineering to design, propose, discuss and refine new features and functiona