MTS 1, Software Engineer

This is an opportunity for a staff / lead level software engineer to be part of PayPals Pricing / FX engineering team. The Pricing / FX engineering team owns key services that enable revenue / margin opportunities at PayPal scale.

Meet Your Team

PayPal is transforming global commerce. Our Engineering team is the heart of this transformation. The Pricing team is responsible for the services that support fee and foreign exchange (FX) for PayPal s payments system. Pricing and FX services are at the heart of PayPals payments engine, processing millions of requests a day. Pricing and FX are at the heart of enabling revenue and margin for all PayPal offerings.

As part of this team, you will get to work on services used to determine how PayPal prices its various services, and determines FX rates for cross-border payments. These services handle billions of dollars worth of TPV every year and are expected to operate at high levels of reliability with low latency.

• Be a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional agile team.
• Design, build and operate scalable solutions at the heart of PayPal
• Build and take operational responsibility of real-time and near real-time services used by millions of users
• Be a technical leader within your team and within PayPal in general.
• Work closely with product and business functions to come up with optimal solutions to drive key revenue, growth and compliance initiatives
• Be an active voice in architectural decisions
• Be a technical mentor to the team and drive solutions end to end

• A bachelors or masters degree in computer science, Information Systems or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience, with at least 8 years of relevant industry experience
• Knowledge of Java tech stacks (Spring, Spring Boot, JPA / Hibernate)
• Solid understanding of relational data stores like Oracle / Postgres
• Understanding of TDD and unit testing using frameworks like Junit / TestNG
• Experience developing RESTful and GraphQL Web Services is a plus
• Experience building scalable, production-grade micro-services/API based platforms is a plus