Software Engineer 3

What you need to know about the role The primary role of the MTS1, Software Engineer on the Payments SOR Team is to provide technical and domain expertise in the design and delivery of software and infrastructure. Meet our team As a leader of this critical payments domain, you would be responsible for powering 40M transactions & 4B lookups everyday for our customers. You would need to work across all business units, including PayPal, Braintree, Venmo, Xoom, HyperWallet and others. We need to encourage our talent to push our technology forward with respect to functionality, performance, reliability, and scalability.

Your way to impact

The ideal candidate understands the complexity of a fully scaled out micro services architecture and can make intuitive judgements on how to support it in a highly reliable and effective manner.  In addition to addressing the need of the environment, you should also be a super star leader who builds relationships with product and platform development leaders and organizations.  You’ll work alongside the best and the brightest engineering talent in the industry. As a core participant of your team, you’ll estimate engineering efforts, prioritize projects, plan implementations, and triage production issues. You need to be dynamic, collaborative, and curious as we build new experiences, improve existing products, and develop distributed systems powering the world’s largest e-commerce and payments websites at a scale only a few companies can match. 

Your day to day activities:

• Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on engineering excellence, execution, and craftsmanship as a Customer Champion.
• Develop trusted partnerships with developers, partners, and architecture leaders to drive optimized platform product delivery.
• Design, build and operate scalable solutions at the heart of PayPal
• Build and take operational responsibility of realtime and near realtime services used by millions of users
• Be a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional agile team, contributing to design and code reviews
• Mentor other engineers on the team and provide technical leadership

What do you need to bring

• 8+ years of relevant industry experience
• Experience building a scalable, production-grade micro-services/API based platform
• Excellent problem-solving, team, and time management skills
• Understanding of oracle database.
• Knowledge of Java tech stacks (Spring, Spring Boot, JPA / Hibernate)
• Understanding of TDD and unit testing using frameworks like Junit / TestNG
• We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.
• Passionate about quality and software engineering
• Working on problems involving scaling, innovation in fast-paced high-pressure environment.
• Demonstrated strength at leading all phases of the Product Lifecycle, from setting the vision to roadmap planning, capturing requirements, project definition, execution, and operational excellence.
• Strong communication, listening, interpersonal, influencing, and negotiation skills; able to convey important messages in a clear and compelling manner.

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.