PayPal is looking to solve the problem of enabling payments that do not run through credit or debit card rails, increasing PayPal's Total Payment Volume (TPV) and providing a competitive advantage by enabling merchants to integrate with a single payment provider.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional experience in software development, with a strong emphasis on backend technologies like Java, Spring Boot, design patterns, microservices architecture, and frontend development in Node.js, React
- High proficiency and strong skills in Cloud Technologies, object-oriented, and functional programming, and familiarity with AWS Lambda, Dynamo DB, and Typescript experience
- Experience in building high-scale, high-throughput, low-latency systems
- Strong problem-solving skills, possessing the ability to work independently or collaboratively to analyze and address complex technical challenges
- Experience with modern software development practices, version control systems, and agile methodologies
- Strong attention to detail, as well as a passion for delivering high-quality software solutions
- Ability to mentor and up-level team members
Responsibilities
- Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system
- Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow
- Proactively improves existing structures & processes
- Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities (time, quality, complexity risk) to identify optimal solutions to problems
- Notices patterns and condenses repetition into densely meaningful generalized solutions
- Collaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor
- Trusted to represent PayPal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations
Other
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of experience including 2+ years of Lead experience preferred
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
- Ability to work in a hybrid work model with 3 days in the office and 2 days at home
- 0% travel required