PayPal is looking to develop and deliver applications and services that power PayPal's Checkout user experiences on the web, aiming to provide sophisticated, tailor-made experiences to all users and improve the scale, reliability, and performance of their platforms.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in software development, with a strong emphasis on development of large-scale and performant Web applications.
- High proficiency in JavaScript, NextJS, Node.js, React, GraphQL, or similar frameworks and libraries.
- Solid understanding of the possibilities and limitations of the modern web across all device types and form factors
- Experience in building responsive, accessible, and mobile-friendly user interfaces
- Strong problem-solving skills, possessing the ability to work independently or collaboratively to analyze and address complex technical challenges
- Ability to mentor and up level team members
- Experience with modern software development practices, version control systems, and agile methodologies
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate end-to-end ownership of features, projects, modules, and services that you and your team deliver in all phases of the software development lifecycle.
- Contribute to your team’s design and implementation of end-to-end solutions towards client-side applications using JavaScript, NextJS, Node.js, React, GraphQL, and other relevant technologies.
- Lead project discussions and contribute to the overall technical implementation of the client-side applications, advocating for best practices and innovative solutions.
- Optimize software performance, identifying and resolving bottlenecks via monitoring, logging, and metrics to enhance the user experience.
- Act as a strong advocate for clean, scalable, high-performing, secure, and reliable software services, in all areas, including coding, documentation, automation, etc.
- Identify and implement critical non-functional requirements (Availability, Security, Performance, Scalability, and Observability), and improve automated test strategies, build and deploy processes to enable speedy and reliable continuous integration.
- Collaborate with other development teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment of client-side applications, automating and enhancing build, test, and deployment processes.
Other
- Delivers complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) (design, implementation, testing, delivery and operations), based on definitions from more senior roles.
- Advises immediate management on project-level issues
- Guides junior engineers
- Operates with little day-to-day supervision, making technical decisions based on knowledge of internal conventions and industry best practices
- Communicates effectively with all technical and non-technical partners and stakeholders (Architecture, Developer Experience, Product, Design, Analytics, Legal, Marketing, etc.) as well as within your team to ensure shared understanding around the new products and features under consideration.
