Staff Software Engineer

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:

At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives.

Meet our team

You will be part of the PayPal Commerce Platform Team. You will be responsible for analysis, design, coding, and building web platforms. You should be self-motivated, team-oriented, problem solver, possess creative problem-solving skills, and have the ability to handle multiple projects at the same time. You will be developing multiple-tiered web applications based on modern technologies.

What you need to know about the role:

This is primarily a backend role and you will be sought as an expert of frameworks, advocate for best practices, and cross-team influencer.

Job Description:

Your way to impact

The PPCP Engineering team is responsible for building highly scalable applications to enable payment processing capabilities on the platform.

Your day to day:

• Play a crucial role in building solutions for our customers.
• Build and maintain a highly reliable, available, and resilient commerce platform.
• Lead by example and help foster a culture of positivity, psychological safety, and inclusivity within the team.
• Work with other engineers and PMs across multiple teams to gather requirements, design, develop, test, launch, and maintain features.
• Drive operational excellence by optimizing processes and workflows for enhanced productivity and efficiency.
• Drive integration efforts and lead critical work streams of strategic initiatives sponsored by senior executives
• Mentor other engineers and contribute to the technical direction of the team.

What do you need to bring:

• Must have a BS or MS Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 7+ years of experience in software development building large-scale enterprise applications.
• Deep understanding of and extensive experience applying advanced object-oriented design and development principles.
• Expert-level understanding of designing and developing data-intensive applications and architecting them for scalability and availability.
• Developing high-traffic backend services, with low latency and designing them for scale.
• Experience applying software design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
• Passionate about mentoring team members and staying up-to-date on the latest technologies and platforms.
• Prior experience in monitoring large-scale distributed systems. Demonstrated knowledge of automation for most of the manual tasks around SDLC with techniques such as packaging with Docker, ensuring a reliable CI/CD Should be able to isolate errors by trouble-shooting the application stack from application to framework to underlying infrastructure dependencies and network.
• Hands-on knowledge of OOP/OOD/Functional languages along with a strong understanding of concurrency, parallelism, and networking, with profound data structure & algorithms.
• Experience developing solutions for service monitoring, automated remediation, measuring availability and reliability, performance, analytics, and network.
• Ability to reduce tech debt and have a plan to remove them from the system.
• Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision in a team to define, design, implement, test, release rollout, and support software applications for PayPal.
• Work with business units to crystallize business needs into product features.
• Experience in application performance fine-tuning is a plus.
• Experience with unit testing using Junit and writing functional testing.
• Experience using industry-standard software development tools (IDE / Version Control / Continuous Integration)
• Strong debugging and problem-resolution skills
• Expertise in online payments and related domains is a plus.
• Focuses on test-driven development and automation.
• Believes in Agile development and is comfortable with SCRUM process.
• Refactor existing codebase and understand existing implementations to decide whether to refactor or rewrite.
• Identify Performance bottlenecks and use good coding patterns to avoid them.

Highly competent hands-on experience in the following:

• Enterprise architecture/software design/implementation, particularly large-scale web-based systems. (J2EE)
• Java programming in Linux/Unix environment
• OO-based analysis and design
• SOA / Web Services
• MVC frameworks such as Spring along with Sprint boot
• Software design and development methodologies, including Agile methods
• Source Control (GIT experience is an advantage)
• Unit testing frameworks such as JUnit, Google Test
• Database design and optimization. (Oracle/MySQL)
• Jenkins/Hudson, Maven/Ant, RESTs experiences

Additional Job Description:

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

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PayPal is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

Actual Compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to work location, and relevant skills and experience.

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is

$84500 to $204600

For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

Our Benefits:

At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset—you. That’s why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.

We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

Who We Are:

Click Here to learn more about our culture and community.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at paypalglobaltalentacquisition@paypal.com.

Belonging at PayPal:

Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.

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