PayPal Complete Payments (PPCP) is PayPal's all-in-one payment processing platform, enabling businesses to accept different payment methods through a single integration. PPCP enables merchants and partners to accept multiple payment types, including PayPal payments, credit and debit cards, digital wallets (such as Apple Pay and Google Pay), and buy-now-pay-later options—all within one unified system. As a PPCP Payment Services Group architect, you will build, improve, and expand platforms that address payment processing challenges.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in Payment Services and FinTech system architecture
- Proven track record designing large-scale, distributed payment processing systems
- Understanding of FinTech domain, security standards, and compliance requirements
- Expertise in modern cloud technologies, microservices, and API design
- Demonstrated history of technical leadership in complex engineering environments
- Experience mentoring engineers and building high-performing teams
- Strong communication skills with ability to translate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale payment processing platforms that handle complex financial workflows
- Drive architectural decisions for high-availability systems processing millions of daily transactions
- Lead the adoption of innovative technologies to solve payment processing challenges
- Optimize platform performance, security, and reliability across global markets
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define PayPal's Payment Services engineering strategy
- Guide technical implementation from functional specifications through deployment and integration
- Mentor engineering teams and establish best practices for complex payment system development
Other
- Makes technical decisions affecting multiple teams, crossing organizational boundaries
- Establishes conventions & processes to be followed by other employees
- Actions determine the utilization of company resources (people, money, assets) and affect the effectiveness of the company
- Handles multiple, multi-team initiatives simultaneously, using judgement to prioritize among more issues than can be handled individually.
- Competent at communicating technical issues with non-technical audiences
