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:

What you need to know about the role:
As a key member of Risk Platform engineering team, you will design, test, deploy and maintain software solutions.

Meet Our Team:
Do you want to be part of building the next gen data infrastructure and ecosystem that is are integral to the success of the company and powers the large-scale data intensive AI/ML applications and analytics platform? Are you passionate about driving innovation and delivering quality products that delight customers?
• Risk Platform Services team is responsible for providing the infrastructure for fraud detection and decisioning, risk management and compute services across PayPal - globally. As an MTS1 Software engineer, you would be responsible for designing, building and scaling the next generation data engine and making it cloud ready.
We research, ideate, design, and develop the platform that gets called across every interaction between PayPal’s customers and partners. Our solutions need to scale across hundreds of millions of such interactions per day, working with petabyte plus data, integrating with various other APIs in real time and yet providing high availability and resiliency to the business. To achieve this, we are always looking at leveraging the best technology and science and tying those back to business needs.
You will be responsible for working with a team of engineers in design, development, test, and deployment of a range of products in Risk Data platform. A successful candidate will have an established background in being a go-getter with a strong technical ability, great communication skills, leading projects and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. PayPal Software Engineers are strong technologists who are passionate to solve large scale highly complex computer engineering problems.

In PayPal, we develop massively scalable, distributed software systems that require high availability to our business. You build strong competencies in data structures and algorithms, along with a technical fascination for how everything ties together. You need to have a solid foundational knowledge of computer engineering and intellectual curiosity to understand the business. To help with this, we are always looking for strong technologists who are passionate to solve large scale highly complex computer engineering problems, in a repeatable and maintainable way. Our engineers build strong competencies in data structures and algorithms, along with a deep understanding of business processes.


You’ll work alongside the best and the brightest engineering talent in the industry. As an MTS1 Software Engineer, you will participate in all phases of our software development lifecycle from design, architecture and planning to development, testing, deployment, monitoring and beyond. You will be responsible in delivering an industry leading product. The prospective candidate will be an individual contributor working with various cross functional groups (business, product, analytics, engineering) and will require admirable collaboration skills. Business acumen, hands-on technology skills, positive work ethic and a collaborative mindset are key to the success of this role.

Job Description:

Your Impact:

You’ll work alongside the best and the brightest engineering talent in the industry. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will participate in all phases of our software development lifecycle from design, architecture and planning to development, testing, deployment, monitoring and beyond. You will be responsible in delivering an industry leading product. The prospective candidate will be an individual contributor working with various cross functional groups (business, product, analytics, engineering) and will require admirable collaboration skills. Business acumen, hands-on technology skills, positive work ethic and a collaborative mindset are key to the success of this role.

What you need to bring:

• Demonstrate end to end ownership of features, projects, modules, and services that you and your team deliver.
• Demonstrate a customer centric mindset as part of day-day work.
• Participate in design and development efforts of existing and new frameworks built in Risk Data Platform and Infrastructure.
• Act as a strong advocate for clean and scalable coding principles.
• Participate in formal and informal code reviews to ensure code quality.
• Be a champion of high-performance, secure, and reliable software services.
• Collaborate with core platform, infrastructure, business & product teams to implement features for Risk Platform.
• Work with your Agile team to achieve shared understanding around the new products and features under consideration.
• Continuously learn by staying on top of the latest technology trends and share your knowledge and experience with your peers, adjacent teams, and across the organization.
• Actively contribute to our automated test suite and build/deploy processed to enable speedy and reliable continuous integration.
• Advocate for ways to remediate technical debt on an ongoing basis.
• Lead projects while working and collaborating with your peers and junior engineers.
• Mentor junior engineers as they develop their technical skills.

Personal Traits

• Be curious and open-minded.
• Be a quick learner undaunted by complex systems.
• Take risks and thrive in an environment of constant change.
• Exposure and participation in tech events, hackathons, contributions to open source, authoring of blogs and active participation in online tech forums is a plus.

Technical Hands-on Skills

• Strong programming skills and expertise in Java, Spring, Messaging Infrastructures like Kafka and server-side technologies.
• 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.
• Strong foundational knowledge in Object-Oriented Design Principles, Data Structures, Algorithms, SQL/NoSQL, Concurrency, Operating Systems, and Software Engineering
• Experience with NOSQL Databases, Distributed systems, Cloud-based technologies, Big Data Frameworks.
• Experience on Big Data Technologies such as Apache Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, etc. 
• Applied Experience with development of RESTful APIs, Web Services, SOA.
• Expertise in understanding high level design and translating it into detailed design artifacts.
• Ability to drive projects independently and demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills to effectively connect with both business and technical teams
• Should be a strong advocate of code craftsmanship, good coding standards and use of tools that will improve the quality of the delivered code.
• Authority in writing Unit Test cases, Functional test cases and meeting Non-Functional requirements like application security, availability and performance.

Education & Work qualifications

• BSCS or equivalent + 8 years of experience / MSCS + 6 years of experience in software development.

Nice to Have

• Experience with building end to end data pipelines, data streaming and ingestion, Machine Learning, data storage and processing using Airflow, Cloud Pub/Sub, Dataproc, BigQuery etc. along with some front end technologies is a big plus
• Exposure and participation in tech events, hackathons, contributions to open source, authoring of blogs and active participation in online tech forums is a plus.
• Understanding of mathematical concepts, statistical analysis is a plus

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