Senior Staff Engineer, Backend

Posted:
8/21/2024, 10:30:50 AM

Location(s):
California, United States ⋅ San Jose, California, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

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:

We’re looking for an experienced Senior MTS Software
Engineer to join PayPal Commerce Platform
Team. You will be sought as an expert of frameworks,
with solid design and technical skills and having the
ability to design and architect complex solutions,
advocate for best practices and cross-team influencer.

Meet our team:

The candidate will be part of PayPal Commerce Platform
Team. The candidate will be responsible for designing
and building large scale applications. The individual
should be self-motivated, team-oriented, problem solver,
possess creative problem-solving skills and have the
ability to handle multiple projects at the same time. The
candidate will be responsible for designing and
developing multiple tiered web applications based on
modern technologies. Candidate should have deep
understanding of the technology and should be able to
propose solutions outside of the domain, collaborate and
steer drive large projects end-to-end. Should be able to
propose the go forward tech stack and should have deep
thinking about the product.

Job Description:

Your way to impact:

  • Have strong business and technical vision and the ability to communicate this vision to multiple stakeholders.

  • Be customer focused and passionate about providing world-class solutions for millions of customers across the world.

  • Sense evolving business trends and translate them into needs into technology solves.

  • Have deep conceptual and technological understanding of contemporary concepts such as mobile development, cloud computing, social networking, Big Data etc.

  • Exhibit strong leadership and exceptional technical skills, hands on programming skills.

  • Constantly look out for discovering new value by means of innovations, new processes, methodology, product capabilities, patents and more.

  • Be willing to represent PayPal and the team within internal and external forums.

Your day to day

In this role, the individual will be part of the engineering team in Privacy Organization and will be responsible for


·Understand the Partners and Merchants Domain in depth and deliver features in PayPal that is scalable, reliable and fault- tolerant.


·Involved in design, architecture, implementation of foundational platform and framework code, work on the PPCP team.


·Be able to resolve complex problems arising in the project and able to provide guidance and support to the team to unblock and move forward.


·Be able to quickly ramp-up on the many different components/services - built on different technology stacks, Operations Systems and use different build and deploy pipelines - to add new features and fix issues.

Very good debugging skills to troubleshoot issues in a timely manner and recommend the root cause fixes for the issues.


·Be able to work closely with the users of the system to understand their problems and
exercise empathy and maturity while working with them to solve the problems.


·Continue to work with the Architects to guide the vision and direction for the Observability team technically


·Collaborate with other engineers on code reviews, internal infrastructure improvements and process enhancements.


·Ensure minimal operational overhead by automating maintenance tasks with easily
manageable configurations, solving scalability bottlenecks to improve performance and
maximize system availability by ensuring functional and performance SLAs.


·Design, implement, and test complex, multi-tier distributed software application frameworks collaboratively with peers and technical leaders. 


·Mentor junior staff and/or team members in the best practices of code quality and coding practices. Enhances code quality across multiple projects and/or business units. Recognized for tech debt reduction.


·Transform our teams and technologies across the enterprise to encourage adoption.


·Project planning and estimating effort for the different phases


·Ability to work collaboratively with team members to achieve end vision


·Be part of the interview team to hire and build a world class engineering team that will make an impact on how we do engineering at PayPal

What do you need to bring-


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


·14+ years of experience developing large scale applications JAVA, Spring Core and Spring Batch, with good hands on exposure to SQL and NoSQL technologies, good understanding of relational and free form databases, including strong data architecture and SQL/PL-SQL development skills


·Deep understanding of and extensive experience

Additional Job Description:

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

0

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PayPal is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

Actual Compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to work location, and relevant skills and experience.

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is

$107300 to $259600

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 [email protected].  

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.

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please Join our Talent Community.

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

PayPal

Website: https://www.paypal.com/

Headquarter Location: San Jose, California, United States

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1998

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt

Industries: E-Commerce Platforms ⋅ FinTech ⋅ Mobile Payments ⋅ Transaction Processing