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Job Description Summary:

Lead Staff Full Stack Engineer for the Merchant Platform team

Job Description:

What you need to know about the role:

Meet our team:

Merchant Engineering’s mission is to simplify commerce by providing a one-stop payment platform for all customer segments.

We are the customer-facing teams within Product and Platform Engineering building the touchpoints that interact with our customers across all stacks (PayPal, Braintree and Hyperwallet), across all channels (online and in-store, web and mobile) for our Merchants.

Within Commerce Solutions and Services, PayPal’s Merchant Engineering team is looking for a talented front-end engineer with strong application engineering fundamentals and JavaScript programming experience to design and build solutions supporting our merchant engagement strategy.

Every day we come to work looking to develop innovative solutions that deliver high customer value on a scale. If you are excited about solving hard problems for our customers, working with a passionate and dedicated engineering team, and are focused on constant improvement as an engineer then please apply!

Your Way to Impact:

A customer focused, hands-on experienced full stack engineer, responsible for designing, implementing and delivering state of the art payment solutions and merchant experiences. In this role, you will be responsible for the overall development and implementation of front and back-end software applications. Your responsibilities will extend from designing system architecture to high-level programming, and systems integration.

To ensure success as a full stack engineer, the ideal candidate is an individual with advanced programming skills, experience with application development, and excellent troubleshooting skills. Business acumen, hands-on technology skills, positive work ethic and a collaborative mindset are key to the success of this role.

The prospective candidate will be an individual contributor working with various cross functional groups (business, product, analytics, user experience design and engineering) and will require admirable collaboration skills. The role would involve building features and capabilities on merchant products and payment platforms that would redefine how customers of PayPal pay and get paid.

Your Day to Day:

• Demonstrate a customer centric mindset as part of day-day work.
• Ensure that the design and implementation adheres to defined specs and processes.
• Own end-to-end quality of deliverables during all phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Understand technical designs by working within PayPal’s cross-functional technology team.
• Collaborate with core platform and infrastructure teams to satisfy the infrastructure needs for payments solutions.
• Collaborate between business, product and technology in the process of understanding the requirement and coming up with implementation options
• Ability to function effectively in a fast paced environment and manage continuously changing business needs

What you need to bring to the role:

• Strong frontend and backend programming skills and previous experience as a full stack engineer.
• Proficiency with fundamental front end languages such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Proficiency with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React and Amber.
• Experience with REST API’s, Web Services, Unit Testing and build tools.
• Proficient in back-end languages including Java, Python, Rails, Ruby, .NET, or PHP.
• Good understanding and hands on experience with databases such as MySQL/ Oracle etc.
• Rich object-oriented design and analysis skills.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Good problem solving skills. Attention to detail.

Personal Traits:

• Be a quick learner undaunted by complex systems.
• Take risks and thrive in an environment of constant change.
• Contributed to building the complete life cycle of transaction processing preferably in payments domain.
• Experience in refactoring existing code base and in understanding existing implementations to decide to refactor or rewrite.
• Exposure and participation in tech events, hackathons, contributions to open source, authoring of blogs and active participation in online tech forums is a plus.

Additional Job Description:

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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:
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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. For more information, visit https://www.paypal.com ,  https://about.pypl.com and  https://investor.pypl.com.

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