Senior Software Engineer, Backend Java

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 Summary:

What you need to know about the role
You will work intimately with web and mobile app API clients, product, and platform teams to create secure, reliable APIs that enable users to send money abroad with Xoom, a PayPal product. You will actively be deploying new applications, diagnosing runtime systems, and putting that knowledge to use making the next generation of APIs.

Meet our team
The Xoom Consumer Orchestration team creates the outward facing APIs to support four mobile apps, and numerous web appllcations. As part of the larger Xoom organization in PayPal, we work hand in hand to bring the best experiences to our customers. Work across silos with engaged engineers, to learn and teach. Reach out to specialized teams in PayPal to resolve issues impacting our users, and provide best of class solutions.

Job Description:

Your way to impact

• Work with Product and other Engineering teams to improve the world standard remittance experience
• Standardize user experience across many application modalities
• Ensure 99.999% reliability at scale, with a zero defect mentality. Our users trust us with their money is safe.

Your day-to-day

In your day-to-day role you will

• Design, code, test and deploy features/functions delivered via applications and services.
• Collaborate frequently with other developers to design and implement the required solutions.
• Partner with product managers to deliver high quality solutions on time.
• Participate in formal and informal code reviews to ensure code quality.
• Actively contribute to our automated test suite to enable speedy and reliable continuous integration.
• Leverage the latest observability tools to monitor our applications and services are highly available and reliable.
• Be a champion of high-performance, secure, and reliable software services.
• Work with product and design teams to develop new ideas and explore new opportunities to foster innovation.
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with all non-technical stakeholders (Product, Design, Business, etc)

Preferred Qualification:

What do you need to bring

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical discipline (or equivalent experience of 6+ years).
• Proficient in back-end development using Java EE technologies (e.g. Java language, application servers, servlet containers, Docker).
• Experience with HTTP