PayPal is hiring Staff Software Engineer- Backend

At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives.

Job Description Summary:
What you need to know about the role- We are DECO (developer Ecosystem) org. We work towards making our developers and merchants interactions, integrations with PayPal products and services frictionless and a pleasant experience. As part of that, we focus on innovative tools, Developer centric portal, Developer Docs, API Refs, dashboards and Sandbox Engineering. It’s a new role for helping build nextgen tooling for Sandbox.

Job Description:
Meet our team:

We are building nextgen tools with cutting edge technology to make a bigger impact on how merchants and developers integrate with PayPal. The work involves using AI and ML technologies to solve problems, developing tooling and products from ground up. It’s very exciting phase for our team to learn new technologies and make a bigger impact on overall PayPal products and services.

Your way to impact:

Develops efficient, elegant, clean, reusable code with no unnecessary complication or abstraction.

Mentor other engineers and developers by providing technical and business-related guidance and resources;

Deliver quality solutions on schedule.

Create / Review well-articulated, detailed design documents.

In your day-to-day role you will be responsible for:

  • Presents issues and solutions to audiences of varying sizes.
  • Provides recognized technical and business leadership and can provide deep technical support across a range of functionality.
  • Manages workload and other assignments efficiently while being able to resolve time-critical situations reliably and professionally.

What do you need to bring:

  • 8+ years of experience in Software Development
  • Proficiency in back-end technologies
  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable, highly performant, backend systems in programming languages like Java, Golang, Python etc.
  • Working experience with microservice architecture, relational and NOSQL databases, REST APIs, and public Cloud computing.
  • Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code along with unit and integration test code with automation, be able to deploy the code in VM/Docker/containerization environment.
  • Collaborate with front-end developers to ensure system integration and efficiency.
  • Experience/knowledge with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), github (or other version controls), Docker and Kubernetes
  • Problem-solving and critical thinking: Engineers should be able to solve problems and think critically about the design and functionality of software applications. They should be able to break down complex problems into smaller parts and find solutions to them.
  • Collaboration and communication: Engineers must be able to work collaboratively with other team members, including tech leads, product managers, and other developers. They should be able to communicate effectively with their team members to ensure that the software application is designed and built according to specifications and requirements. Good communication skills also help Full Stack Engineers to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

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:

To learn more about our culture and community visit https://about.pypl.com/who-we-are/default.aspx

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 [email protected].

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.

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