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Job Description Summary: Member Technical Staff 1, Payments Location : SanJose Alternate Payment Methods Engineering Team: APM is a team which enables Payments that are not run through a credit or debit card schemes. With APM we increase PayPal TPV(~1 – 2 % Annually) and provide a competitive advantage by enabling merchants to integrate with a single payment provider, PayPal. The charter is to enable integrations to local payment options and plugin these integrations into PayPal merchant facing and consumer facing products. Our goal is to increase the PayPal share of checkout by letting customers have a choice to use their favorite local payment options to do e-commerce and online payments. We provide various integration methods for alternative payments which are used by Braintree SDK. With Smart Payment Buttons(Guest buttons), Unbranded API’s we enable 21 APMs (9 General Availability, 11 limited release, 1 digital wallet) Alternative Payment Methods globally APM Team owns the full stack, i.e this team owns the experience, payment processing (Local Payment Methods, Bank) which includes realtime and settlement and operations this adds the complexity of understanding the system e2e rather domains.

Job Description:

About the Role:

Member of Technical Staff 1 – Payments, Engineering

A customer focused, hands-on engineering lead, responsible for designing, implementing and delivering state of the art payments solutions for the Payments team of PayPal. The ideal candidate is an individual with strong experience in building large scale distributed, transaction processing systems. Business acumen, hands-on technology skills, positive work ethic and a collaborative mindset are key to the success of this role.

The prospective candidate will be working with various cross functional groups (business, product, analytics, user experience design and engineering) and will require admirable articulation and negotiation skills. The person is also expected to be an able individual contributor, a mentor and a peer to other junior engineers. The role would involve building new payments platform and experiences for PayPal’s hyper growth markets, that would redefine how customers of PayPal pay and get paid.

Key Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate a customer centric mindset as part of day-day work.
• Own the design and development of high impact payments initiatives.
• Actively work towards developing products that meet high standards of security, scalability, performance and reliability.
• Act as a bridge between product and technology teams and marry business needs with technology solves.
• Work closely with the solutions architect, engineering leaders and the engineering team to deliver solutions for the customers.
• Be a hands-on individual contributor, who can design solutions, code them, as well as review the deliverables of other team members.
• Work closely with our integration teams and merchant partners to arrive at best in class payments experiences for our merchants.
• Collaborate with core platform and infrastructure teams to satisfy the infrastructure needs for payments solutions.
• Understand the payments business and how technology decisions impact the business.
• Sense evolving business trends and translate them into needs into technology solves.
• The role may require an annual travel of 2-3 weeks to our engineering centers world-wide.

Technology Thought Leadership

• Have strong business and technical vision and the ability to communicate this vision to multiple stakeholders.
• Be customer focused and passionate about providing world-class solutions for millions of customers across the world.
• Have deep conceptual and technological understanding of contemporary concepts such as mobile development, cloud computing, social networking, Big Data etc.
• Exhibit strong leadership and exceptional technical skills, hands on programming skills.

Design skills

• Demonstrated experience with large-scale software architecture and development, and/or high-volume websites and web services.
• Solid understanding of web-scale architectural considerations such as security, performance, scalability, reliability etc.
• Proven experience in both real-time online transaction processing systems as well as non-real time asynchronous processing.

Technical Hands-on Skills

• Strong Object-oriented programming skills and expertise in one of Java/J2EE.
• Experience with REST API’s, Web Services, Unit Testing and build tools.
• Strong working experience and exposure to one or few of the following: node.js, Python or scala
• Working experience with databases such as MSSQL/ Oracle etc.
• Exposure and Understanding of NoSQL databases and microservices is a plus.
• Knowledge of mobile platform development is a plus.

Qualifications

• BSCS plus 8+ years / MSCS plus 6 years of experience in software design, development and architecture

Our Benefits:

At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset—you. That’s 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. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com

Who We Are:

To learn more about our culture and community visit https://about.pypl.com/who-we-are/default.aspx

PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering more than 400 million consumers and merchants in more than 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit paypal.com.

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at paypalglobaltalentacquisition@paypal.com.

As part of PayPal’s commitment to employees’ health and safety, we have established in-office Covid-19 protocols and requirements, based on expert guidance. Depending on location, this might include a Covid-19 vaccination requirement for any employee whose role requires them to work onsite. Employees may request reasonable accommodation based on a medical condition or religious belief that prevents them from being vaccinated.