Lead Backend Engineer

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:

What you need to know about the role: This role is critical to understand, explore the payments platform within PayPal and think solutions which may span across components/platforms

This role will require to build synergy within Growth markets and with the other partnering teams to deliver outcomes that will add towards the $1B revenue portfolio

Meet our team: The Growth Markets Engineering team is responsible for constructing solutions to solve business challenges for markets that are identified to continue, grow, extend PayPal as leader of Online Payments

We design, develop, and enhance services across PayPals Payments platform envisaging the next generation cult solutions for Growth Markets

We are the unconventional outfit that set benchmark within PayPal for delivering products with finesse in quality through inner-source and challenge time to market factor for delivering complex yet scalable solutions across Platforms

Your way to impact: As Member of Technical Staff, you will play a pivotal role in developing, implementing, and being a watchdog for the most strategically aligned regions within PayPals Growth Markets Portfolio

You will deep dive and implement robust solutions to complex problems

Our team is fast and agile, and the front runner bearing the torch for inner sourcing

If you are self-driven, passionate, a teamplayer and have effective communication skills, this role will fascinate you

Job Description:

Job Description:

Your day-to-day:

Engage with multiple teams of highly talented engineers and architects to design and develop highly scalable, unique customizable solutions that meet the needs of our customers and stakeholders

Actively engage with leadership across Product, Architecture, Design and Engineering to design, propose, discuss and refine new features and functionality

Collaborate with other engineering teams, IT, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver innovative solutions that meet organizational needs

Communicate with stakeholders on technical standards, principles, methodologies and trends

Enhance overall system operational characteristics by establishing best practices for code quality, reduction in tech debt, building frameworks or shared techniques to improve engineering effectiveness

Identify opportunities for refactoring, API changes, solution designs and other types of tech debt remediation

Influence management for driving technical decision-making for the right selection of technology by giving forthright, understandable, and actionable advice

Drive decision-making with team members with different views for simple to complex problems with the business requirements to help synthesize the best solution

Engage with business team, highly analytical and have experience designing and implementing A/B tests, with approach like data-based experiments

You know exactly what and how to track business metrics and KPIs

What you need to bring:

You must have significant business knowledge and technical expertise in application design and architecture, as well as knowledge of related domains of technical architectures scaling Payments, innovative methods, etc,

Must be a selfstarter, work independently or as a team member, and have strong communication skills in interfacing with business partners and the Technology

Demonstrated technical leadership experience, or tech lead for high impact customer facing product development

You must have experience in modern technologies such as Java (min Java 8, functional programming paradigm is highly recommended), Reactive Spring boot, Algorithms, DSA, SQL, Databases

Understands use cases for advanced design patterns (e g

, service-to-worker, MVC, API gateway, intercepting filter, dependency injection, lazy loading etc) to implement efficient code

Strong OOP skills, with ability to analyze requirements and transform into scalable software designs

Deep understanding of modern web applications design architecture, good API design patterns, performance, and scale

Deep understanding of webservices, Native apps such as iOS, Android and related working fundamentals

Experience with HTTP, REST API's and competent designing and building web services/microservices in a commercial setting

Experience with Design Patterns, MVC and frameworks (e g

Spring)

Competent in software engineering tools (e g

Java build tools) and best practices (e g

unit testing, functional testing/test automation, continuous integration, etc,)

Serve as a strong advocate of code craftsmanship, good coding standards and use of tools that will improve the quality of the delivered code

Experience with using Agile/Scrum methodology for software development

Deep understanding of web services and SOA related standards like REST/OAuth/JSON and SOAP/WSDL

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelors or masters degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field

A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals

10-14 years of experience building successful production software systems and solutions

For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations

Our Benefits:

At PayPal, were committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy

And we cant do this without our most important assetyou

Thats why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life

We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you

We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more