Frontend Developer

What you need to know about the role As a member of the Observability Platform team, you will be responsible for the development and delivery of the applications and services that power PayPal’s Enterprise Observability platform. You will work closely with product, design, and developments teams to understand what their observability needs are. We're looking for talented, motivated, and detail-oriented technologists with a passion for building robust systems at scale. We value collaboration, communication, and a passion for achieving engineering and product excellence. Meet our team The Observability Team at PayPal is responsible for providing world-class platform that can collect, ingest, store, alert and visualize data from many different sources in PayPal – like application logs, infrastructure, Virtual Machines, Containers, Network, Load Balancers etc. The platform should provide functionalities that enables different teams in PayPal to gain business insights and debugging/triaging of issues in an easy-to-use and intuitive and self-service manner. The platform should be scalable to support the data needs for PayPal (fortune 500 company); be highly available at 99.9% or higher; be reliable and fault-tolerant across the different physical data centers and thousands for micro services. You’ll work alongside the best and the brightest engineering talent in the industry. You need to be dynamic, collaborative, and curious as we build new experiences and improvise the Observability platform running at a scale few companies can match.

Your way to Impact

As an engineer in our development team, you will be responsible for developing the next gen PayPal's Observability platform, support the long-term reliability and scalability of the system and will be involved in implementations that avoid/minimize the day-to-day support work to keep the systems up and running. If you are passionate about application development, systems design, scaling beyond 99.999% reliability and working in a highly dynamic environment with a team of smart and talented engineers then this is the job for you.You will work closely with product and experience and/or development teams to understand the developer needs around observability and deliver the functions that meets their needs. The possibilities are unlimited for disruptive thinking, and you will have an opportunity to be a part of making history in the niche Observability area.

Your day-to-day

In your day-to-day role you will

• Be Involved in development & support work on the Observability team.
• Be required to quickly ramp-up on the many different components/services - built on different technology stacks, Operations Systems and use different build and deploy pipelines - to add new features and fix issues.
• Be able to work closely with the users of the system to understand their problems and exercise empathy and maturity while working with them to solve the problems.
• Collaborate with other engineers on code reviews, internal infrastructure improvements and process enhancements.
• Understand the different use cases for the Observability Domain across the different teams and help guide evaluation and adoption of a next generation Observability Platform for PayPal that is scalable, reliable and fault tolerant.
• Help with evaluation using Proof of Concept on the different options/solutions selected that should solve for all the use cases.
• Be able to troubleshoot and help fix performance, scalability, and other live issues in a very time critical environment.
• Implement designs provided by UX/UI designers accurately, paying close attention to typography, layout, color, responsiveness, accessibility and performance.

What do you need to bring

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical discipline (or equivalent experience)
• 2+ years’ experience in developing front-end applications.
• Very strong foundational knowledge in Object-Oriented Design Principles, Data Structures, Algorithms, SQL/NoSQL, Operating Systems, and Software Engineering.
• Proficiency in front-end technologies like React, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Solid understanding of responsive design and cross-browser compatibility.
• Attention to detail: Frontend Engineers must be detail-oriented and strive for pixel-perfect designs.
• Problem-solving and critical thinking: Frontend Engineers should be able to solve problems and think critically about the design and functionality of the user interface.
• Understanding of concurrency, parallelism, networking, with profound data structure & algorithms
• Ability to isolate errors by trouble-shooting the application stack from application to framework to underlying infrastructure dependencies and network.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong applied experience. You've built, broken, and rebuilt software applications. We're looking for creative thinkers who also know how to create real-world products

**We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.

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:

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PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering more than 400 million consumers and merchants in more than 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit paypal.com.

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.

As part of PayPal’s commitment to employees’ health and safety, we have established in-office Covid-19 protocols and requirements, based on expert guidance. Depending on location, this might include a Covid-19 vaccination requirement for any employee whose role requires them to work onsite. Employees may request reasonable accommodation based on a medical condition or religious belief that prevents them from being vaccinated.