What you need to know about the role As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and enhancing web applications and services. You will leverage your expertise in front end technologies to build robust solutions that enable our customers to seamlessly access and manage our various offerings. We are looking for a 10+ years experienced front end developer with hands-on proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, and React who will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful results within an established software development lifecycle framework. You will build our scalable solutions and seamless experiences in partnership with our cross-function teams
Meet our team Giving Engineering Team is responsible for several of PayPal s flagship products, including, Donate button, Donate API. Consumer giving, PayPal fundraisers, give at checkout, disaster campaigns, Charities, Charity compliance, Charity experience, Partner fundraising, Grants payout and Partner experiences. Aspiring to serve millions of customers daily, we are aggressively going after opportunities to expand our team and build new engaging experiences, and optimise cost and performance while maintaining top-quality experiences
Job Description
Your way to impact
You will own the concept, productisation, and delivery of the technical solutions improves productivity, drives operational efficiency and scale to support our business growth
You will partner closely with our cross-functional teams and will be responsible for building a great experience for our customers.
Your day-to-day
In your day-to-day role you will
Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, data scientists, and software engineers to define platform requirements and priorities.
Identify product or functionality gaps and collaborate with internal product and technology teams to define necessary developments for solution delivery.
Ensure high code quality, performance, and reliability through rigorous testing, code reviews, and adherence to software development best practices.
Drive innovation by researching and incorporating state-of-the-art machine learning techniques, tools, and frameworks into the platform.
Lead integration efforts and critical work streams for strategic initiatives sponsored by senior executives.
Foster engineering excellence by developing reusable, production-ready frameworks and consistently driving high standards.
Identify and troubleshoot integration or technical issues proactively.
Promote best practices and create innovative solutions to enhance quality and excellence initiatives.
Own end-to-end quality of deliverables during all phases of the software development lifecycle.
Mentor and coach other junior engineers in team
What do you need to bring
10 + years of strong applied experience in frontend technologies
Hands-on knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), Object-Oriented Design (OOD), and Functional programming languages.
Bachelor s or master s degree in computer science
Strong understanding of concurrency, parallelism, and networking, along with deep knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
Proficient in Functional and Object-Oriented JavaScript/TypeScript/ES6+ coding.
Proficient in web frontend technologies including Node JS, React JS, HTML, CSS, Webpack etc.
Experience with remote data integration via RESTful APIs and JSON.
Passionate about mentoring team members and staying up to date with the latest technologies and platforms.
Strong passion for designing and engineering rich user interfaces.
Experience writing unit/functional tests using Jest, Mocha, Cypress, Selenium etc.
Disciplined approach to testing and quality assurance.
Ability to think logically, diagnose/triage issues, and make informed decisions.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.