Staff Software Engineer (Fullstack)

Job Summary:

This job acts as a project leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers, determining technical tasks, and improving existing structures and processes. It involves making technical decisions, collaborating with management to set standards, and representing the company to external partners.

Job Description:

Essential Responsibilities:

• Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system
• Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow
• Actions result in the achievement of customer, operational, program or service objectives
• Proactively improves existing structures & processes
• Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities (time, quality, complexity risk) to identify optimal solutions to problems
• Notices patterns and condenses repetition into densely meaningful generalized solutions
• Collaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor
• Trusted to represent PayPal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualification:

A customer focused, hands-on Java engineer, responsible for designing, implementing and delivering state of the art payments solutions for GSE of PayPal. The ideal candidate is an individual with experience building large scale systems engaging across the full software lifecycle, from system design and development of front-end systems components. 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 new and emerging payments platforms and experiences for PayPal’s hyper growth markets, that would redefine how customers of PayPal pay and get paid.

Key Responsibilities:

• 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

Technical Skills

• Strong programming skills and expertise in Java/J2EE, Spring and Hibernate
• Exposure to one or more server side scripting technologies.
• Experience with REST API’s, Web Services, Unit Testing and build tools.
• Good understanding and hands on experience with databases such as MySQL/ Oracle etc.
• Strong understanding of web-based programming languages
• Rich object-oriented design and analysis skills
• Experience in refactoring existing code base and in understanding existing implementations to decide to refactor or rewrite.

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.
• Exposure and participation in tech events, hackathons, contributions to open source, authoring of blogs and active participation in online tech forums is a plus.

Educational Qualifications:

BSCS or equivalent + 8 years of experience / MSCS + 6 years of experience in software development

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

0

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 US national annual pay range for this role is $152,500 to $262,350

PayPal does not charge candidates any fees for courses, applications, resume reviews, interviews, background checks, or onboarding. Any such request is a red flag and likely part of a scam. To learn more about how to identify and avoid recruitment fraud please visit https://careers.pypl.com/contact-us.

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 paypalglobaltalentacquisition@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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