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PayPal

Staff Software Engineer

Job Description

Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 375 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.

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PayPal‘s Customer Support Platform team is building a feature rich, highly scalable and available cloud-based document management system. It’s an opportunity to lead and build a platform and an ecosystem that enables millions of customers and merchants to manage transactional and regulatory documentation and media through the life of their account.

What is the opportunity?

PayPal‘s Customer Support Platform team is building a feature rich, highly scalable and available cloud-based document management system.

It’s an opportunity to lead and build a platform and an ecosystem that enables millions of customers and merchants to manage transactional and regulatory documentation and media through the life of their account.

What you will do?

  • Responsible for full software lifecycle, system design and development of back-end systems components
  • Work with the product team to identify appropriate business requirements and help design high-load solutions that will be deployed across merchants
  • Design and development of distributed systems
  • Play an active role in providing coaching, feedback and code quality across Agile teams through formal and informal code reviews
  • Assure the overall quality and integrity of the system components. Engage in the automation of software testing and simulations and contribute to performance tuning, improvement, and load testing

What do you need to succeed?

  • 4+ years of full time relevant experience in backend and distributed systems, BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field
  • Penchant for great algorithm design / strong CS fundamentals
  • Strong knowledge of Java, Java based frameworks like Spring
  • Experience working with relational / NoSQL databases and ORM technologies
  • Detail-oriented with the ability to manage projects from inception to execution; responsible, independent, and disciplined, taking ownership of your projects
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and make pragmatic engineering decisions in a short amount of time
  • Strong desire to learn, push the envelope, and share knowledge with others
  • Knowledge of Javascript frameworks like React and Angular is a plus
  • Knowledge of container platforms like Docker is a plus
  • Knowledge of data science and ML is a plus

We're a purpose-driven company whose beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We hold ourselves to our One Team Behaviors which demand that we hold the highest ethical standards, to empower an open and diverse workplace, and strive to treat everyone who is touched by our business with dignity and respect. Our employees challenge the status quo, ask questions, and find solutions. We want to break down barriers to financial empowerment. Join us as we change the way the world defines financial freedom.

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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Job ID: f0ac29bca9db8b39d004479da9b9816c6a8983f42621cf726a78538bb808b0cc
Employment Type: Other

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