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:

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Financial Instruments team, you will help build and enhance a suite of services and tools that allow PayPal, Venmo, BrainTree, Hyperwallet customeres to maintain life cycle of various funding instruments not limited to Card or Bank but many more. We need you to assist us in developing high-quality, high-performing, secure applications and participate in all aspects of application development, including design, coding, security, testing, and production releases.

You will be delivering new features, helping to ensure quality, working closely with our product team, and ensuring regulatory compliance. This will include engineering new features, enhancements, and bug fixes for our Java REST services, message queues, and batch jobs. You'll work closely with our Product team in an agile environment to bring features from conception to launch. You'll be working in a data-intensive environment and focusing on reliability, scalability, and maintainability. Furthermore, you will participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and shared knowledge and collaborate with other teams across PayPal to ensure transparency and effective delivery.

Job Description:

At PayPal FI, we are a supportive, forward-thinking, globally distributed community of customer-centric technologists. We celebrate our successes, learn from our challenges, and always keep pushing forward. Whether we're brainstorming the next big feature, tackling complex technical challenges, or sharing insights from our latest project, there's a shared sense of purpose and excitement for what we're building. Our contributions are what make wallet possible within PayPal, and we take pride in empowering experiences that bring consumers and businesses together
Your work will directly contribute to PayPal’s overarching mission of making PayPal the most innovative way to shop. By building, enhancing, and scaling the back-end applications that underpin our financial instruments experiences, you will be a key player in enabling seamless and delightful experience for customers. Your efforts in developing high-quality, secure, and performant software solutions will not only improve consumer experiences but also drive new opportunities for merchants to connect with consumers. Your role goes beyond coding; it's about making a tangible impact on the lives of millions.
In your day-to-day role you will:

• Design, develop, test, and deploy robust software solutions using Java in PayPal recommended environment, ensuring high performance, security, and scalability.
• Strive for high coding and architecture standards. And also mentor and influence other team members towards the right industry standards
• Independently work on multiple product features, utilizing your technical expertise to propose innovative solutions for both new and existing  functionalities, informed by a growing understanding of our products and the business domain.
• Manage your own project deliverables, timelines, and priorities, effectively balancing multiple tasks to meet project deadlines and performance targets.
• Actively engage in design and code reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers and incorporating feedback into your own work to maintain high standards of code quality and functionality.
• Mentor and train new team members, sharing your knowledge and experience to help onboard them onto the team quickly and efficiently, fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement.

What Do You Need To Bring

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or an equivalent combination of technical education and work experience.
• Seven or more years of software development experience, with a strong emphasis on Java, including experience with the Spring Framework.
• A deep understanding of object-oriented design, and functional programming paradigms.
• Experience working with large-scale, highly available, and distributed systems.
• Experience developing automated unit, integration, and functional tests, preferably in a Java environment using tools like JUnit, Mockito, or Spring Test.
• Proficiency in using Maven as a build and dependency management tool. Experience designing and developing RESTful web services.
• An understanding of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) concepts, with experience in using build and deployment tools to streamline and automate the development lifecycle.

Additional Job Description:

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

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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:

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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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