Job Description

Time Type:

Full time

At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives.

Job Description Summary:

What you need to know about the role

The “Growth Markets Engineering Team” is responsible for developing and rolling out new products for PayPal’s customer base in markets seeing high commerce growth across the world such as Mexico, Brazil and Japan. Our charter is to double down and drive the next wave of growth for PayPal’s consumer and merchant bases globally, to propel new user acquisition, provide platform expansion through ubiquity, bring in new revenue through partnerships and to contribute actively to our organization’s mission of democratizing financial services.

Meet our team

Engineers in this team would be involved in building new payments platform and experiences for PayPal’s hyper growth markets, that would redefine how customers of PayPal pay and get paid.

Job Description:

Your way to impact

A customer focused, hands-on Java engineer, responsible for designing, implementing, and delivering state of the art payments solutions for Growth markets of PayPal. The ideal candidate is an individual with experience building software systems by engaging across the full software lifecycle, from system design and development of system backend 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 (product teams, lead engineers and various engineering teams) 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.

Your day to day

o  Demonstrate a customer centric mindset as part of day-day work.

o  Ensure that the implementation adheres to defined specs and processes.

o  Own end-to-end quality of deliverables during all phases of the software development lifecycle.

o   Understand technical designs by working within PayPal’s cross-functional technology team.

o   Work with managers, leads and peers to come up with implementation options.

o  Ability to function effectively in a fast-paced environment and manage continuously changing business needs.

What do you need to bring

o    Strong programming skills and expertise in Java/J2EE, Spring and Hibernate

o    Experience with REST API’s, Web Services, Unit Testing and build tools.

o    Good understanding and hands on experience with databases such as MySQL/ Oracle etc.

o    Strong understanding of web-based programming languages

o    Rich object-oriented design and analysis skills

Personal Traits

o    Be a quick learner undaunted by complex systems.

o    Take risks and thrive in an environment of constant change.

o    Contributed to building the complete life cycle of transaction processing preferably in payments domain

o    Experience in refactoring existing code base and in understanding existing implementations to decide to refactor or rewrite.

o    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 +2 years of experience / MSCS