Staff Software Architect - Front End

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About the Team:

We are the Buyer Payments Experience engineering team that helps deliver engaging customer experiences for our buyers. We own Checkout, Shopping Cart, Wallet, and other experiences to enable a seamless shopping and payment journey for our diverse customer base across different markets around the world.

Speed and availability are our foundation, with which we drive great financial and customer impact through smooth, fabulous, and personalized experiences. We are a data driven agile organization. We ship often, get immediate user feedback and use experimentation to make decisions. We constantly strive for engineering excellence and the best engineering culture.

We are looking for highly collaborative, inquisitive, driven Staff Software Architect - Front End who can help us reshape the future of our frontend applications. You'll be working with an extraordinary team of engineers, designers, product managers, business partners and analysts in a fun environment building extraordinary customer experiences.

• Leading architecture development working with a team of frontend engineers and solving problems that span domains and systems.

• Implementing tests and responsible software development practices

• Getting into the details, investigating issues, writing code, performing code reviews, and prototyping new solutions

• Providing expert feedback for code quality, performance, scalability, system architecture, and engineering methodologies

• Modernizing and advocating for continuous improvement of the technology stack by inspiring change through the organization

• Shepherding multiple teams and collaborating effectively with product, design and engineering teams across multiple domains and multiple geographies

• 10+ years of experience designing and building scalable web applications with deep experience in Javascript, NodeJS, and React

• Advanced experience with designing large-scale distributed systems using industry standard patterns

• Proven track record of learning, evaluating, and leveraging new technologies to solve customer problems. Experience with Java, iOS (Swift)/Android (Kotlin), and FGQL is a plus

• Master's degree in Computer Science, or Bachelor's degree with equivalent experience

• Proven track record in architecting applications and systems for user experience delivery

• Experience with patterns for achieving feature modularity

• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employees will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

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