Staff Software Engineer - Back End Java

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:

PayPal Marketing Technology team is dedicated to creating a best-in-class platform. We are looking for highly talented, enthusiastic, and motivated engineers to join our team. As MarTech Team, we expect our engineers to be team-oriented, problem solver, possess creative problem-solving skills and can handle multiple projects at the same time.  As a Staff Software Engineer on the Marketing Technology Platform, you’ll engage in all facets of application development, including requirements, design, coding, ensuring security measures, testing, and overseeing production releases.   
 

Job Description:

What you need to know about the role

PayPal Marketing Technology team is dedicated to creating a best-in-class platform. We are looking for highly talented, enthusiastic, and motivated engineers to join our team. We expect our engineers to be team-oriented, problem solver, possess creative problem-solving skills and can handle multiple projects at the same time.  As Staff Software Engineer on our Marketing Technology Platform, you’ll engage in all facets of application development, including design, coding, ensuring security measures, testing, and overseeing production releases.   

As part of your responsibilities, you will also be responsible for delivering new features, enhancements, and fixes for our real-time applications within MarTech platform.  You will be closely working with Engineers, Architects, Product Owners to build, test and deliver features that impact millions of PayPal Users globally.

Meet our team

At PayPal Marketing Technology Platform, we are very supportive, forward-thinking community of customer-centric technologists.  We celebrate our successes, learn from our challenges, and always keep pushing forward. Whether we're brainstorming the next big feature, tackling complex technical challenges, or sharing insights from our latest project, there's a shared sense of purpose and excitement for what we're building. Together, we share a common goal: to build seamless, secure, and scalable solutions that empower individuals and businesses around the globe.

Your way to impact

Your work will directly contribute to PayPal’s overarching mission of revolutionizing customer engagement globally.  By building, enhancing, and scaling the back-end applications that underpin our marketing technology experiences, you will be a key player in enabling seamless and innovative ways of engagement of our customers worldwide. Your efforts in developing high-quality, secure, and performant software solutions will not only improve user experiences but also drive inclusion and flexibility that is critical in today's digital economy.  Your role goes beyond coding; it's about making a tangible impact on the lives of millions.

In your day-to-day role you will:

• Design, develop, test, and deploy multi-tier distributive software applications using Java in a Linux/Unix environment, ensuring high performance, security, and scalability.

• Create and maintain guides and best practices for REST API schema design, implementation, and consumption.

• Independently work on multiple product features, utilizing your technical expertise to propose innovative solutions for both new and existing functionalities

• Impeccable analytical and problem-solving skills to solve hard complex problems in a fast-paced environment.

• Manage your own project deliverables, timelines, and priorities, effectively balancing multiple tasks to meet project deadlines.

• Perform design and code reviews, provide constructive feedback to peers and incorporating feedback into your own work to maintain high standards of code quality and functionality.

• 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. 

• Collaborate with other engineers for 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. 

• Enhances code quality across multiple projects and/or business units.

• Project planning and estimating effort for the different phases.

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

• Sharing your knowledge and experience to new members to help onboard them onto the team quickly and efficiently, fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement.

• 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:

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or an equivalent combination of technical education and work experience.

• 8+ years of experience developing large scale applications Java, Spring Core and Spring Batch, with good hands-on exposure to SQL technologies, good understanding of relational database(s).

• A deep understanding and experience of applying software design patterns, data structures, object-oriented design, and algorithms.

• Design, implement, and test complex, multi-tier distributed software application(s).

• Experience working with large-scale, highly available, and distributed systems.

• Experience designing and developing RESTful web services.

• Experience on Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node JS.

• Excellent Debugging skills to troubleshoot issues in a timely manner and recommend the root cause fixes for the issues. 

• Bring in the best practices of code quality and coding practices.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills. 

• Ability to work collaboratively with team members to achieve end vision.

• Experience developing automated unit, integration, and functional tests, preferably in a Java environment using tools like JUnit, Mockito, or Spring Test.

• Experience working on SaaS platform(s): Adobe Experience Cloud, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a plus.

• Experience on Big Query, Dell Boomi Platform is a plus.

• An understanding of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) concepts, with experience in using build and deployment tools to streamline and automate the development lifecycle.

• Experience using Atlassian JIRA, Service Now, Atlassian Confluence tools.

• Experience in delivering projects using Agile Methodology.

Additional Job Description

Work Permit and Relocation Prerequisites:  Must already possess valid authorization to work in the country where the position is advertised/located.  Relocation support will not be provided for this role.

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

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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

$84500 to $204600

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:

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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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