Senior Front-end Engineer

What you need to know about the role: 

Meet our team: 

Merchant Engineering’s mission is to simplify commerce by providing a one-stop payment platform for all customer segments. 

We are the customer-facing teams within Product and Platform Engineering building the touchpoints that interact with our customers across all stacks (PayPal, Braintree and Hyperwallet), across all channels (online and in-store, web and mobile) for our Merchants. 

Within Commerce Solutions and Services, PayPal’s Merchant Engineering team is looking for a talented front-end engineer with strong application engineering fundamentals and JavaScript programming experience to design and build solutions supporting our merchant engagement strategy. 

Every day we come to work looking to develop innovative solutions that deliver high customer value on a 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 Way to Impact: 

You will be responsible for Developing efficient, elegant, clean, reusable code with no unnecessary complication or abstraction. Should exhibit ownership and Deliver quality solutions on schedule. Will be responsible to create / Review well-articulated, detailed design documents. 
Your Day to Day: 

• Own implementation of a module/application/product 

• Design, develop, test, and deploy robust software solutions in a Linux/Unix environment, ensuring high performance, security, and scalability. 

• Participate in complex architectural discussions that involve multiple systems. 

• Identify any product/functionality gaps and collaborate internal product and technology teams to define the necessary development to support solution delivery. 

• Drive operation excellence. 

• Pro-active response in identifying and troubleshooting integration or technical issues. 

• Challenge the status quo when needed. 

• Ownership and strive for excellence in your role. 

What you need to bring to the role: 

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or an equivalent combination of 

• technical education and work experience. 

• 3+ years’ experience building software or web applications with object oriented or functional programming languages. 

• Expert knowledge in React JS fundamentals, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Nodejs and ExpressJs 

• Good knowledge of testing frameworks and deployment techniques. 

• Hand-on experience in leveraging languages like Typescript for developing Graphql APIs 

• Intermediate level Understanding of Java, Spring, REST API and Messaging Architectures like ActiveMQ/Kafka . ( Experience in development is a plus ) 

• Deep understanding of and extensive experience applying advanced object-oriented design and development principles. 

• Intermediate level understanding of designing and developing data intensive applications, and architecting them for scalability and availability. 

• Demonstrated ability to scope, create and successfully deploy new strategy/ initiatives / capabilities. 

• Experience applying software design patterns, data structures, algorithms. 

• Good analytical and problem solving skills 

• Strong debugging and problem resolution skills 

• Focuses on test driven development and automation. 

• Experience collaborating with business users to define the key business requirements and translate them into process/technical solutions. 

• Experience developing automated unit, integration, and functional tests, 

• Experience in performance aspects like caching, code splitting, lazy loading, pagination, etc & Security aspects like authentication, CORS, xss. 

• Experience to interact with engineering teams from multiple geo-locations. 

• Should have good communication skills. 

• Expertise in online payments/loan management system and related domains is a plus