Senior Software Engineer

At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to revolutionize commerce globally to make moving money, selling and shopping, personalized and secure. 

Job Description Summary:

What you need to know about the role

As a Software Engineer in PayPal’s Alternate Payments method (APM) team, you will help design and build a robust product to support PayPal’s existing APM products, as well as drive innovation in alternate payments platform. You will leverage your expertise and experience to design and build systems that further PayPal’s goal of bringing best in class customer experience to provides global payment acceptance solutions to all merchant/partner segments at PayPal.

Meet our Team

APM is a team which enables Payments that are not run through a credit or debit card schemes. With APM we increase PayPal TPV (~1 – 2 % Annually) and provide a competitive advantage by enabling merchants to integrate with a single payment provider, PayPal. The charter is to enable integrations to local payment options and plugin these integrations into PayPal merchant facing and consumer facing products. Our goal is to increase the PayPal share of checkout by letting customers have a choice to use their favorite local payment options to do e-commerce and online payments. We provide various integration methods for alternative payments which are used by Braintree SDK.

With Smart Payment Buttons (Guest buttons), Unbranded API’s we enable 21 APMs (9 General Availability, 11 limited releases, 1 digital wallet) Alternative Payment Methods globally.

APM Team owns the full stack, i.e., this team owns the experience, payment processing (Local Payment Methods, Bank) which includes Realtime and settlement and operations this adds the complexity of understanding the system e2e rather domains

Job Description:

Your way to impact: 

Looking for technically strong candidate, with hands on development experience in Java, who is self-motivated, team player, with curiosity to learn and grow, exhibiting strong resolve and challenge the status quo, to strive for excellence in everything they do, with good professional and academic track record to be part of a team that deals with most innovative payments processing team that deals transactions at scale. 

Your day to day:

• Develops efficient, elegant, clean, reusable code with no unnecessary complication or abstraction.

• Mentor other engineers and developers by providing technical and business-related guidance and resources;

• Deliver quality solutions on schedule.

• Create / Review well-articulated, detailed design documents.

• Provides recognized technical and business leadership and can provide deep technical support across a range of functionality.

• Manages workload and other assignments efficiently while being able to resolve time-critical situations reliably and professionally.

• Participates in the development of tools, systems and processes aimed at improving product supportability or overall support productivity.

What you need to bring:

• 5+ years of good experience in developing large scale enterprise applications, primarily with JAVA with hands on experience in RDBMS and NoSQL databases.

• Good experience in 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 applying advanced object-oriented design and development principles.

• Intermediate level understanding of designing and developing data intensive applications and architecting them for scalability and availability.

• Developing high traffic backend services, with low latency and designing them for scale.

• Experience applying software design patterns, data structures, algorithms.

• Good analytical and problem solving skills

• Experience collaborating with business users to define the key business requirements and translate them into process/technical solutions

• Knowledge on scripting languages like Unix Shell, Perl, Python is a plus

• Experience in application performance fine tuning is a plus.

• Experience with unit testing using Junit and writing functional testing.

• Experience using industry standard software development tools (IDE / Version Control / Continuous Integration)

• Strong debugging and problem resolution skills

• Expertise in online payments and related domains is a plus

• Focuses on test driven development and automation.

• Believes in Agile development and are comfortable with SCRUM process.

• Refactor existing codebase and in understanding existing implementations to decide to refactor or rewrite.

• Identify Performance bottlenecks and use good coding patterns to avoid them.

• You’re a strong advocate of good coding standards and preach code-coverage tools like Sonar.

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

Additional Job Description:

At PayPal, we’re literally reinventing how the world pays and gets paid. We understand that it’s about people. We connect individuals to let them shop, get paid, donate and send money using today’s technology with the confidence that comes from the security and control PayPal enables. Are you ready to help us change the world?
The world’s leading payments company, PayPal, brings together a family of brands that are revolutionizing the way people move money. At PayPal you will be immersed in an amazing community with a vibrant culture that thrives on innovation, collaboration, inclusion and wellness. 

Software Engineers at PayPal develop innovative solutions and high-quality products that touch millions of people every day around the globe. Our engineers solve some of the most complex technical problems in the world of connected payments across all business units, including PayPal, Braintree, Venmo, Paydiant and others. We are looking for the highest levels of technical talent and programming skills, as well as a keen desire to deeply understand our products and services to push our technology forward with respect to functionality, performance, reliability, and scalability.

You’ll work alongside the best and the brightest engineering talent in the industry. We have opportunities in a wide range of areas including development, design, search, platform, test, quality, big data, front end and back end. As a core participant of your team, you’ll estimate engineering efforts, design your changes, implement and test your changes, push to live, and triage production issues. You need to be dynamic, collaborative, and curious as we build new experiences, improve existing products, and develop distributed systems powering the world’s largest e-commerce and payments websites at a scale only a few companies can match.

Subsidiary:

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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

Who We Are:

to learn more about our culture and community.

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  ,   and  .

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 .

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