Software Engineer – Backend

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:

Job Description:

What you need to know about the role:
As a member of the Checkout Engineering team, you will be responsible for the
development and delivery of the applications and services that power PayPal’s
Checkout user experiences. You will work closely with product, design, and
analytics teams to understand what the buyers and merchants using our software desire from us. We're looking for talented, motivated and detail-oriented
technologists with a passion for building beautiful products and experiences. We value collaboration, communication, and a passion for achieving engineering and product excellence.
 

Meet our team:
At PayPal Checkout Engineering, we're building experiences used by millions of
merchants and shoppers worldwide, and our team is on a mission to provide
sophisticated, tailor-made experiences to all of our users. PayPal has been at the forefront of building global-scale applications and is a pioneer in the payments realm. Our passionate engineers continually question assumptions, experiment with new technologies and architectures, and collaborate to create engaging and innovative payment experiences.

Your Way to Impact:
As a backend engineer for PayPal Checkout, you will deliver complete solutions and features spanning all phases of our software development lifecycle. In this role, you will be responsible for shaping the future of PayPal's customer facing checkout products. This will be accomplished through implementation of technical designs, direct contributions to architectural decisions, influencing the technical direction of our applications and systems. You will be responsible for developing industry leading experiences that bring unquestionable value to both merchants and buyers. You will use your years of technical expertise and a solid understanding of the business domain to help us improve the scale, reliability, and performance of our platforms.
 

Your Day to Day:
• Demonstrate end-to-end ownership of features, projects, modules, and services that you deliver in all phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Contribute to software performance, identifying and resolving bottlenecks via
monitoring, logging, and metrics to enhance the user experience.
• Contribute to clean, scalable, high-performing, secure, and reliable software
services, in all areas, including coding, documentation, automation, etc.
• Contribute to critical non-functional requirements (Availability, Security,
Performance, Scalability, and Observability), and improve automated test
strategies, build and deploy processes to enable speedy and reliable continuous
integration.
• Collaborate with other development teams to ensure seamless integration and
deployment of client-side applications, automating and enhancing build, test, and deployment processes.
• Communicate effectively with all technical and non-technical partners and
stakeholders (Architecture, Developer Experience, Product, Design, Analytics,
Legal, Marketing, etc.) as well as within your team to ensure shared understanding around the new products and features under consideration.
• Conduct formal and informal code reviews, providing constructive feedback to
team members to ensure code quality and adherence to clean and scalable coding principles.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry standards, tools, and technologies related to client-side development, observability, and DevOps practices, and drive their adoption within the team.
• Participate in program planning, influencing the product and technology roadmap and driving outcomes.

What You bring:
• 2+ years of professional experience in software development, with a strong
emphasis on development of large-scale and performant applications.
• Expertise in at least one server-side language such as Java, C++, C#, Go, Python, Kotlin, or Ruby.
• Familiarity with relational and non-relational database technology such as
PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Bigtable.
• A history building modern, resilient and operationally efficient backend systems exemplifying industry standards (HTTP REST, GraphQL, Serverless, SOA, etc).
• A strong belief that data is an essential tool to drive ideal solutions.
• A desire to ship world class code daily.
• Strong attention to detail, as well as a passion for delivering high-quality software solutions and compelling customer experiences
• Strong problem-solving skills, possessing the ability to work independently or
collaboratively to analyze and address complex technical challenges<