The Company

PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. 

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.

We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards.  Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade. 

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day.  We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.

Job Description Summary:

What you need to know about the role

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and enhancing backend web applications and services. You will leverage your expertise in Java technologies to build robust solutions that enable our customers to seamlessly access and manage our various offerings.
We are looking for a 8 + years experienced backend developer with hands-on proficiency in Java, Spring who will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful results within an established software development lifecycle framework.
You will build our scalable solutions and seamless experiences in partnership with our cross-function teams

Meet our team

Giving Engineering Team is responsible for several of PayPal’s flagship products, including, Donate button, Donate API. Consumer giving, PayPal fundraisers, give at checkout, disaster campaigns, Charities, Charity compliance, Charity experience, Partner fundraising, Grants payout and Partner experiences. 
Aspiring to serve millions of customers daily, we are aggressively going after opportunities to expand our team and build new engaging experiences, and optimise cost and performance while maintaining top-quality experiences

Job Description:

Your way to impact

You will own the concept, productisation, and delivery of the technical solutions improves productivity, drives operational efficiency and scale to support our business growth

You will partner closely with our cross-functional teams and will be responsible for building a great experience for our customers.

Your day-to-day

In your day-to-day role you will

Design elegant, scalable solutions and maintain documentation.

Collaborate closely with other teams to solve complex problems.

Develop code sufficiently supported by high quality tests

Review code written by others and provide constructive feedback.

Deploy and maintain code using PayPal’s Dev-ops pipeline

Participate in triaging and mitigating production issues

Participate in scrum meetings and provide leadership in improving the execution rhythms.

Guide and mentor other developers in the team.

What do you need to bring

8+ years hands-on experience

Excellent problem-solving abilities

Java, OO-based design and development.

Design and implementation of micro-services

Proven track record working with real-world projects, solid understanding of software development/delivery lifecycle

Development experience with high-traffic backend services

Direct experience with concepts such as SOA, REST APIs, message-based communication.

Understand concepts around concurrency and transactions

Understand distributed systems concepts like SLAs, consistency, data durability, message persistence and idempotency.

Architecture principles for SOA, Event Driven and Large-Scale Systems  

Strong skills in Server-Side Java, Spring, Spring Batch, Hibernate, REST, Maven and other open-source Java Libraries.

Experience with Kafka/RabbitMQ (or any message broker) as well hands-on with containerisation (Docker) is a plus

Good grasp of Data structures & Algorithm concepts.

Database design, programming, tuning and query optimisation.

Test methodologies and testing tools, e.g., TestNG, JUnit.

Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems.

Experience in software configuration management and streaming strategies for large parallel development teams.

Ability to collaborate effectively with remote teams across time zones is essential.

Strong verbal and writing skills; ability to thoroughly understand product specifications, and ability to produce clear, concise documentation.

Understanding of processes and standards from compliance standpoint.

Project planning ability, experience in managing small development teams.

Experience with GitHub, Jira

Comfortable with Agile and Scrum

Nice to have:

Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD)

Experience with DevOps tools and practices including CI/CD, and Observability (e.g.: Splunk, SignalFx or similar) 

Additional Job Description:

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

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For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

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.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion 

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 talentaccommodations@paypal.com.  

Belonging at PayPal: 

Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.

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We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don’t hesitate to apply.