Senior Engineer – Backend (Java)

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 as Lead Software Engineerr in PayPal’s DPE organization, you will be the lead level developer and will have an impact in designing solutions for PayPal’s developers. You will have to understand the needs of our developers, process, identify opportunities and improve our eco system to drive efficiency across entire organization from code to release. 
You will have substantial training and professional development opportunities to develop and expand your leadership, consulting, and technical skills. You will put your troubleshooting, decision-making and collaboration skills to use as an active contributor on your teams. Above all, PayPal offers a collaborative culture that fosters innovation, entrepreneurship, continuous learning, and growth.

Meet our team

 Developer Platform Engineering ( DPE ) offers its developers a cohesive suite of tools, AI, services, and infrastructure, enabling them to build, test, deploy, and monitor applications efficiently across PayPal.
As part of DPE organization, our mission is to reduce the cycle time of software delivery and enabling development teams to quickly take their code changes to production with highest quality which can be done by providing a Console Experience Platform for PayPal employees, be they Developers, Data Scientists, Content Designers etc. PayPal platform teams build and provide web or CLI experiences on an experience platform that provides them standard pattens, many out of the box capabilities with a paradigm shifting model, that enables rapid prototyping and development. Come join us as we enhance and support this brand new platform at PayPal and open-source the innovative solution we have built

Job Description:

Your day-to-day: 

In your day to day role you will be,

• Responsible for providing Technical Leadership, define architecture best practices and work with Engineering and Product counterparts across the organization.
• Spends most of the time developing code, and efficiently produces exemplar and thoroughly tested code for the most challenging features. Code typically persists for the lifetime of a software version.
• Owns and is accountable for the design and development of core platform components
• Work with managers and operations to ensure that systems meets reliability, accuracy, reusability and performance goals.
• Innovate to improve efficiencies using state of the art technologies.
• Collaborates  with Cross functional team leads and get architecture agreements, and document them clearly, to effectively deliver solutions and projects.
• Ability to adapt to new development environments, changing business requirements and learning new systems highly desired.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong analytical, research, problem solving and evaluative thinking skills.

What do you need to bring

• 8+  years of experience hands on Java Programming Expertise with specific focus on large scale distributed systems.
• Hands on application frameworks (e.g. React, Node.js)
• Strong debugging and problem solving skills across the whole tech stack - language, databases, web servers and system environment.
• Experience with test automation: TDD, unit/integration/functional testing
• Have a passion for quality and writing clean, solid, readable code that scales and performs well.
• Strong desire to learn, push the envelope, and share knowledge with others.
• Leads product design and code reviews, can competently review any aspect of their product or major sub-system.
• Ability to lead, mentor and grow a team of developers. 
• Experience with the Agile development process, including running a scrum team.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s / Masters or Equivalent in Computer Science with 8+  years of experience in the software development.
• Proficient in one or more of Java/Golang or any Object Oriented Programming Language.
• Knowledge on Application Frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Node.js)
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
• Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL), web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design
• Solid communication skills ( written and verbal ) & proven team player.

Additional Job Description:

Subsidiary:

PayPal

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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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