Staff Software Engineer

PayPal
Loop, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 3/14/2023 CLOSED ON 3/27/2023

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Software Engineer position at PayPal?

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.

Summary:

What you need to know about role:

As a software engineer in Merchant Reporting team you will be instrumental in building next generation platform and craft solutions capable of delivering millions of hits every day. Candidate should be able to thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy driving innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development. Candidate should be passionate about bringing great experiences to life and comfortable working with back-end tech stacks, development frameworks, and third-party libraries. The person is also expected to be an able individual contributor, a lead, a mentor, and a peer.

Meet our team:

On the Merchant Reporting team, you will closely work with the various world-class data driven data ingestion, orchestration and generating millions of reports with high volume of data across PayPal by using the cutting-edge technologies and advanced data solution.

You will face the complex big data challenges or problems for fin-tech industry domain, turning big data into valuable business insights, on time delivery of reports with various cadences and meeting the merchant SLA. Understand the data deeply but are also able to be hands' on in the design & development of enterprise-level data solutions for huge amounts of data.

Job Description:

Your way to impact:

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Merchant Reporting, you will be responsible for the evolution of our merchant reporting experience platform building solution on various touchpoint failures, provide proactive orchestration of report delivery for millions of merchants. You will make key technology decisions providing solution in AWS, network infra, build & maintain large production grade systems, work with our customers to solve their day-to-day problems, and mentor and guide other engineers.

Your day to day

  • Design and develop highly scalable and available applications for mission-critical systems
  • Work with product management to design or simplify APIs
  • Write clean, functional code for the front-end and back-end features.
  • Design, develop and maintain client-side and server-side software components including Web, REST APIs, GraphQL Api, real-time systems and batches.
  • Prototype ideas quickly using cutting edge technologies.
  • Show pride of ownership and strive for excellence in everything you do.
  • Provide technical solutions to meet business requirements
  • Actively mentor and coach engineers on technology and engineering aspects
  • Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams

What you need to bring:

  • 5 years of experience in software development designing and implementing scalable, fault tolerant components.
  • 3 years of work experience developing back-end systems in Java
  • Experience on common stacks across back-end tech stacks
  • Experience working on webservices/REST API, GraphQL, Event driven real-time systems and Batch components using Spring Framework, muti-threaded programming.
  • Strong skill in data structure and algorithm
  • Experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery, deploying in containers like Dockers
  • Experience with unit testing/functional automation testing and tools
  • Proven experience delivering complex software projects and solutions effectively through Agile methodologies on a regular release cadence.
  • Experience in the online payments or related domain is a plus
  • Proficiency with at least one scripting language (Perl, Python, Unix Shell Script etc.)
  • Solid understanding of data security & classification
  • Bachelor's and /or Master's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Required soft skills

  • Provide leadership to others, particularly junior engineers who work on the same team or related product features.
  • Proven experience delivering complex software projects and solutions effectively through Agile methodologies on a regular release cadence
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Strong customer focus, ownership, urgency and drive.

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:

0

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:

Click Here to learn more about our culture and community.

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 paypalglobaltalentacquisition@paypal.com.

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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