Junior Backend Engineer

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:

As PayPal continues its mission to revolutionize commerce, we are on the lookout for a dynamic Junior Backend Engineer with a DevOps mindset to join one of our teams at the forefront of shaping innovative solutions and crafting modern products that positively impact our merchants' lives. Curious to learn more? Keep scrolling!

Job Description:

PayPal in Sweden originated from Zettle, focusing on commerce services targeting small and medium businesses, and is now expanding to contribute to the wider PayPal portfolio. 

Meet our team

As a Junior Backend Engineer, you'll will join a cross functional team and collaborate closely with a diverse group of talented individuals from engineering, product, and design to create solutions that power PayPal's customer experiences.

Your way to impact

Joining us means partnering with Product and Design counterparts who share a commitment to enhancing our merchants' daily experiences. Here, you will have the opportunity to:

• Continuously innovate and deliver awesome experiences for our users Solve the real customer problems through technology.

• Demonstrate and sharpen your problem-solving skills in both day-to-day work as well as during lab days and hack weeks. 

• Co-elaborate with your peers across our Backend Engineering chapter, working on platform improvements and increasing learning opportunities for and creating opportunities for growth in a supportive environment. 

Your day to day 

• Develop clean, maintainable, high-quality Java code. 

• Take ownership of the delivery – your own, and your peer engineers in the team.

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain services powering PayPal's customer experiences.

• Collaborate with other engineers on the team (Java / Kotlin Backend, iOS, Android and QA) as well as product and design to deliver a world-class experience.

• Continuously raise the bar on the quality and customer focus in the products we develop.

What you need to succeed

• Practical experience of developing back-end services in Java and/or Kotlin.

• Focus on delivery, attention to detail and quality of the end result.

• First experience of designing, building and maintaining distributed systems in a cloud-native environment.

• First exposure to working in an agile development team, using common tools like Jira and GitHub.

• Examples of growing yourself and/or people around you – learning from others and sharing your knowledge, experiences and opinions.

• Knowledge / Interest in cloud infrastructure (we primarily use AWS). 

Get bonus points if you also have...

• Familiarity with FinTech industry payment transactions.

We Believe in You

Interested? Don't hesitate to apply or/and let's talk – we'd love to get to know you!

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Additional Job Description:

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Subsidiary:

Zettle

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.

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.