Staff Software Engineer, Ruby on Rails

At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to revolutionize commerce globally to make moving money, selling and shopping, personalized and secure. 

Job Description Summary:

What you need to know about the role- You will be designing, and implementing complex, multi-tier distributed software applications, document and test systems, modify as appropriate for our Braintree team.
Meet our team:
Join us at PayPal working on Braintree Payments! Our platform powers e-commerce transactions for many of the world’s largest merchants. The Payment Experiences team is the product owner of Pay with Venmo, Pay with PayPal, and Digital Wallets (Apple Pay, Google Pay) for Braintree merchants. We build backend APIs that many of the largest and most familiar companies are depending on to keep their payments running smoothly.

Job Description:

• Your way to impact

• Turn business needs into high quality, high performance code.
• Make the team around you better through great technical leadership
• Consider the future while building great products today
• Work across organizations within PayPal

Your day to day:

• Write highly scalable and distributed Ruby on Rails services.
• Drive technical projects and take pride in building systems that are used by millions of users every day.
• Develop mid-tier services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
• Work on traditional and non-traditional SORs from Oracle to Couchbase and Cassandra.
• You think Agile is the way to go for faster development until something better comes along.
• You call Linux and Vim as your best buddies.

What you need to bring:

• Strong Ruby or strong programming abilities in Java and other languages like Python, C++
• Strong understanding of algorithmic techniques, design patterns and best practices.
• You have great communication skills
• You are passionate about PayPal and its mission to "build the web's most convenient, secure, and cost effective payment solution.
• Curiosity about how things work and the behavior of finding the answers. Flexible and adapting the changing circumstances, tenacious.
• Knowledge/experience with Unix. Knowledge/experience with relational databases, NoSQL databases.
• Knowledge/experience with GitHub. Knowledge/experience with Service Oriented Architectures.
• 5+ years and at least a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent).

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

Additional Job Description:

Subsidiary:

Braintree

Travel Percent:

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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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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. For more information, visit https://www.paypal.com ,  https://about.pypl.com and  https://investor.pypl.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.

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