Job Description
At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy.
Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives.
We’re a purpose-driven company, and our beliefs are the foundation of how we conduct business every day.
We’re guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness.
Collectively, these values inspire us to work together as One Team with our customers at the center of everything we do, and to take care of ourselves, each other, and the communities in which we live and work.
We challenge the status quo, ask questions, and find solutions.
Join us as we enable the hopes, dreams, and ambitions of millions of people around the world.
We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to join PayPal Shopping.
This person will focus on the systems that power PayPal Shopping’s Offers Product.
As a Backend Engineer, you’ll develop end to end solutions that are deployed into our cloud based production environment.
You can expect to work with a cross disciplinary team including front end engineers, backend engineers, data scientists, data engineers, quality assurance and product management to enhance existing product features and build new ones.
You will be joining one of the most exciting teams at PayPal Shopping, where we are revolutionizing how our members save money with exclusive savings that no other company in the world can offer!
About You:
If you’re on the fence about whether you meet all of the requirements for this role, please apply!
You have 3+ years experience and write idiomatic JavaScript/Node.js, Golang, Java, Python, Scala, or Ruby
You use a modern version-control system for your source code repository (Git, Mercurial, GitHub, BitBucket)
You have a strong grasp of code best practices
You understand the value of testing in all its forms, whether it be unit testing, assisting our automation engineers, or double checking that your changes work in production.
You know how to use a framework to create robust and reliable HTTP-based APIs
You know about continuous integration systems like Travis, Jenkins, or CircleCI (we use Circle)
You have deployed to staging environments before production
You are willing and able to deploy, troubleshoot, monitor, and maintain your systems in production
You’ve worked with both SQL and NoSQL data stores; we use Google’s Spanner, BigTable, and BigQuery
Comfortable building and maintaining data infrastructure in the cloud; we use GCP
In this role, you’ll:
Design, build and operate Honey’s APIs with a focus on performance and reliability
Participate in new feature development for PayPal Shopping engineers to interact with our backend data architecture
Evaluate storage technologies and methodologies with an eye toward scalability and performance
Architect, design, write, review, and test code in a collaborative environment with 5+ other software engineers.
Leverage your peers as multipliers for your skills to create excellent products and services for Honey’s 10+ million users
Build GraphQL-based APIs and resolvers using JavaScript
Help to design, implement, and maintain data pipelines that process millions of messages per day
Work closely with a project manager for your mission team on product requirements and translating those requirements to technical solutions
Bonus Points for:
Experience with Google Cloud Platform, CircleCI, Kubernetes, Docker
Experience with a distributed SQL platform like Google Spanner
Experience with DataFlow, Hadoop, MapReduce, or other “Big Data” systems
Experience with streaming platforms (PubSub, Kafka, Kinesis) and near-real-time data pipelines
For more than 20 years, PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution.
By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 400 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways.
Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying, or getting paid.
Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom, enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.
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.
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