Lead 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:

Meet our team:

PayPal Payouts is a global, high growth product. This Business to Consumer (B2C) and Business to Business (B2B) product allows our customers to pay thousands of their customers each and every day.

We solve world-scale problems and provide opportunities to match. We build diverse teams that recognize our strengths and allow us to work on our weaknesses. You bring skills and a relentless focus on the customer, and we'll provide the support you need to do the best work of your life.

Job Description:

Your Way to Impact:

As a Lead Software Engineer in the Payouts Engineering team you will be instrumental in the evolution of the Payouts Platform. You will make key technology decisions, build & maintain large production grade systems, work with our customers to solve their day-to-day problems, and mentor and guide other engineers.

Every day we come to work looking to develop innovative solutions that deliver high customer value at scale. If you are excited about solving hard problems for our customers, working with a passionate and dedicated engineering team, and are focused on constant improvement as an engineer then please apply!

Your Day to Day:  

• Anchor major team work-streams to build and improve large-scale systems, grow the scale of our platform, reduce complexity, increase automation and burn down technical debt.  

• Build key components of our platform via pair programming with other engineers. 

• Design and develop highly scalable and available applications for mission-critical systems.

• Design, develop and maintain client-side and server-side software components including Web, REST APIs, GraphQL API, real-time systems and batch.

• Setup practices to ensure the highest levels of operational resiliency. 

• Collaborate with leadership, peers and customers to effectively deliver solutions and projects. 

• Serve as a mentor, technical leader, and thought leader within a talented team of engineers, challenging others and helping them grow.

• Track business impact of features on a regular basis, and rely on performance data to make informed decisions about possible changes or improvements. 

• Contribute to a culture of learning and sharing technology insights across teams.

• Support production systems 24/7 (One week in 2+ months - Team rotation based). 

What You Bring:  

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering.

• Design and operational experience with large scale production grade systems. 

• Strong experience in Java development.

• Linux skills and understanding of operating systems. 

• Proficiency with at least one scripting language.

• Experience designing, building, and maintaining large distributed systems on one of the major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP). 

• Extensive API design and development experience. 

• Strong technical accomplishments in SQL, ETLs and data analysis skills. 

• MySQL, Postgres, Redshift, or similar data handling experience.

• Expertise with modern messaging platforms (e.g. ActiveMQ, Kafka, SQS / SNS).

• Expertise on performance testing and tuning.

• Experience with infrastructure as code tooling such as Terraform & CloudFormation.

• Ability to work in a fast paced, agile development environment.

• Ability to partner with business units, product management, program management and cross-functional teams to deliver business results with agility and high quality.

• Excellent time management skills and ability to work on concurrent assignments with different priorities.

• Proven results-oriented engineer with a focus on the customer and delivering quality products.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Strong customer focus, ownership, urgency and drive.

Nice to have:

• Experience with legacy technology stack (EJB, JSF, Glassfish, EclipseLink) and monolith systems.

• Experience on infrastructure.

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

$107300 to $259600

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 talentaccommodations@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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