Data Scientist 2

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, Inc. seeks Data Scientist 2 in San Jose, CA

Job Duties: Facilitate, gather, and synthesize business requirements for multiple, simultaneous projects directly with key business partners, stakeholders and end users. Analyze and translate high-level business requirements to functional and technical specifications to create requirement documents and traceability matrix. Identify key deliverables, prioritize tasks in the product roadmap, resolve issues, bridge gaps, and groom product backlog and user stories. Design and develop customer-centric solution recommendations. Develop, maintain, and manage advanced repots, dashboards, and other BI solutions to track the progress of the business and its highest priority initiatives using tools like Tableau, and Power-BI. Write complex SQL queries to test reports as part of backend testing. Design, implement, and tune MySQL views and stored procedures. Implement customized Extract-Transfer-Load (ETL) pipelines using Python scripts and SQL to pull data from diverse sources for higher data availability and to create a unified view of quality data for analytics and reporting. Drive data logging requirements to measure Key Performance Indicators (KP Is) by engaging with analysts, business stakeholders, data architects, technology leads, and the product development team. Extract meaningful insights and learn from large and complicated datasets. Build, debug, monitor, and troubleshoot databases and ETL processes to ensure optimal performance, reliability, and integrity. Apply various machine learning algorithms and statistical modeling techniques in support of driving informed decision-making, aid in the refinement of existing tools, and development of new tools, and fulfill ad hoc requests. Recognize and adopt best practices in reporting and analysis: data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation. Conduct unit tests and develop database queries to analyze the effects and troubleshoot any issues. Identify key metrics, conduct rigorous explorative data analysis, create executive facing dashboards and build business cases that drive decision making and business prioritization. Apply deep analytics and business intelligence skills to extract meaningful insights and learning from large and complicated datasets. Demonstrated experience managing pressure and meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment. Telecommuting permitted from a commutable distance.

Job Description:

Minimum Requirements: Master’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a closely related field plu