Full Job DescriptionWho we are: 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.
Job Description Summary: Consumer Experience (CXP) Engineering team builds user experiences used by millions of consumers across the globe. As a senior engineer, working for the global leader, PayPal’s Consumer engineering organisation, you will have an impact on PayPal’s products all around the world. Our engineers work to better understand our end-users, their needs and requirements, identify opportunities and improve our products by innovating, and delivering quality products with best of user experience. Simplicity is the key. If you are an experienced full stack engineer with excellent coding skills, understand technology, can apply it to perfection for delivering quality, simple product and a passion for solving unique challenges, along with working in a highly collaborative and values-driven environment then PayPal’s Consumer Experience (CXP) is looking for you.
Job Description:
A successful candidate will have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences, a strong technical ability, excellent project execution skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment, In your role as a senior engineer, you will:
Work with a team of engineers in design, development, test and deployment of highly scalable and configurable products on web and mobile platforms which works on cross-browser, cross-platform.
Work with product and design teams to understand business requirements to develop new ideas and explore new opportunities. Your opinion matters and you’ll have opportunities of being involved in design meetings to propose, discuss and refine new features and functionality.
Collaborate and work with cross-functional teams to develop and deliver E2E solutions providing high availability and configurability that bring real business value.
You will be responsible for communicating to stakeholders on technical standards, principles, methodology and trends.
Adhere to and own end-to-end quality of deliverables during all phases of the software development lifecycle including secure development, localization and internationalization.
Write code that is designed to be reusable and that can be shared amongst other teams
Develops and communicates technical processes, standards, and best practices to the team
Be willing and able to learn new technologies and programming languages when the need to do so arises
Able to work with abstract architecture and move existing non generic code to a more generic and abstract framework when necessary
Work on test automation: TDD, unit/integration/functional and accessibility testing.
Maintain and enhance the existing architectural documentations and create the new one as needed
Mentor and coach less experienced engineers.
Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in software development.
Minimum 7 years’ experience delivering enterprise class JavaScript web applications and services, with at least 4 most recent years working on NodeJS and ReactJS
Professional experience programming modern web applications in JavaScript, NodeJS (ExpressJS) , CSS, and HTML
Proficient in front-end skills React JS
Solid understanding of Object-Oriented design and concepts with ability to analyse requirements and transform into scalable software designs.
You must be a self- starter, work independently or as a team member, and have strong communication skills in interfacing with business partners and the Technology.
Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, scaling and performance) of new and current systems. Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases
Solid understanding of concepts like Web Services, SOA, REST APIs, Message Queue, Distributed/Scalable Architecture. Experience with competent designing and building web services/micro-services in an enterprise setting.
Cognisant of SQL and other/NoSQL/modern database and storage technologies. Desired understanding of Oracle, JDBC and ORM frameworks (e.g. Hibernate).
Competent in software engineering tools (e.g. Java build tools) and best practices (e.g. unit testing, test automation, continuous integration, etc.).
Experience in refactoring existing code-base and in understanding existing implementations, with the ability to decide whether to refactor or rewrite.
Should be a strong advocate of code craftsmanship, good coding standards and use of tools that will improve the quality of the delivered code
Strong communication skills, both verbal and written. Experience in communicating with other technical teams, product and senior management to collect requirements, describe/understand product features, technical designs, and engineering strategy
Strong analytical skills.
Team worker, responsible, delivery oriented.
Demonstrate a high level of curiosity, passion for technology, pride of ownership and strive for excellence
Ability to function effectively in a fast-paced environment and manage continuously changing business needs.
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.