Software Engineer

What you need to know about the role: We are looking for a strong Front End Software Engineer to join us in changing the future of payments. . Meet our team: Software engineers at PayPal develop innovative solutions and high-quality products that touch millions of people every day around the globe. Our engineers solve some of the most complex technical problems in the world of connected payments across all business units, including PayPal, Braintree, Venmo, and others. We are looking for the highest levels of technical talent and programming skills, as well as a keen desire to deeply understand our products and services to push our technology forward with respect to functionality, performance, reliability, and scalability.

Your way to impact:

·        Web engineers at PayPal develop innovative solutions and high-quality products that impact millions of people every day around the globe by building full-stack solutions in Node.js, GraphQL, and browser JavaScript. As a Web Platform Solution Engineer, you will 

·           Be an expert in the languages, system components and concepts of web applications: JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, web browsers, http, content delivery networks

·        Be an expert in the tools and processes needed to build, deploy, and manage web applications: IDEs, linters, continuous integration, containerization

·        Be an expert in PayPal-specific components, services, and software development lifecycle that every web engineer at PayPal relies upon

·        Monitor support requests in order to provide ideal solutions to their technology use cases

·        Build and maintain sustainable, automated processes and pipelines to support tech debt remediation for the web platform frameworks and fleet of applications that use them

·        Manage, analyze, and address the pipeline of support requests from web engineers

·        Manage, analyze and address

·        Interface with the web platform engineering team to identify trends that should influence the backlog or roadmap

·          Interface with other platform teams to provide a seamless experience for web engineers in the support process

You’ll work alongside the best and the brightest engineering talent in the industry. You are engaged, collaborative, and curious about our customers’ needs as well as the technology that will deliver results to them. You are looking to grow as a technologist and help those around you grow.

What do you need to bring:

·       Strong applied experience. You’ve built scalable web applications using  JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, NPM, http, and browsers

·       Very strong foundational knowledge of knowledge in Object-Oriented Design Principles, Data Structures, Algorithms, SQL/NoSQL, Operating Systems, and Software Engineering

·       Great customer and interpersonal skills

·       Good experience and understanding of continuous integration and the methodologies and technologies required (unit & functional testing, Jenkins or related build systems, containerized computing, etc)