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.What you need to know about the role You will design, build, and maintain core wallet infrastructure and APIs that enable secure, reliable, and scalable digital payment experiences. This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge financial technologies that power onboarding, identity, ledger services, accounts, and global money movement. Meet our team WaaS team is spread across three regions of the world (US, China and India) with the team of talented engineers who are pioneering in building the next set of scalable, reliable and optimal white label solution to our clients. We will be a team of 50+ engineers performing the end-to-end buildout of WaaS platform. This team has the complete nature of a startup with its fast-paced work culture and challenges.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Delivers complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) (design, implementation, testing, delivery and operations), based on definitions from more senior roles.
- Advises immediate management on project-level issues
- Guides junior engineers
- Operates with little day-to-day supervision, making technical decisions based on knowledge of internal conventions and industry best practices
- Applies knowledge of technical best practices in making decisions
Expected Qualifications:
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
PayPal does not charge candidates any fees for courses, applications, resume reviews, interviews, background checks, or onboarding. Any such request is a red flag and likely part of a scam. To learn more about how to identify and avoid recruitment fraud please visit https://careers.pypl.com/contact-us.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, 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
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
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.
Belonging at PayPal:
Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please Join our Talent Community.We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don’t hesitate to apply.REQ ID R0131381
Additional Responsibilities And Preferred Qualifications
Your way to impact
We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join our Wallet-as-a-Service (WaaS) team. You will design, build, and maintain core wallet infrastructure and APIs that enable secure, reliable, and scalable digital payment experiences. This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge financial technologies that power onboarding, identity, ledger services, accounts, and global money movement.
Your day to day
Key Responsibilities:
- Demonstrate a customer centric mindset as part of day-day work.
- Ensure that the design and implementation adhere to defined specs and processes.
- Own end-to-end quality of deliverables during all phases of the software development lifecycle.
- Understand technical designs by working within PayPal’s cross-functional technology team.
- Collaborate with core platform and infrastructure teams to satisfy the infrastructure needs for payments solutions.
- Collaborate between business, product and technology in the process of understanding the requirement and coming up with implementation options
- Ability to function effectively in a fast-paced environment and manage continuously changing business needs
Technical Skills
What do you need to bring
- Strong programming skills and expertise in Java/J2EE, Spring and Hibernate
- Exposure to one or more server-side scripting technologies.
- Experience with REST API’s, Web Services, Unit Testing and build tools.
- Good understanding and hands on experience with cloud databases such as DynamoDB, Spanner etc.
- Strong understanding of web-based programming languages
- Rich object-oriented design and analysis skills
- Experience with large-scale, high-performance systems.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Experience working with AI tools for development activities.
Personal Traits
- Be a quick learner undaunted by complex systems.
- Take risks and thrive in an environment of constant change.
- Contributed to building the complete life cycle of transaction processing preferably in payments domain.
- Exposure and participation in tech events, hackathons, contributions to open source, authoring of blogs and active participation in online tech forums is a plus.
- We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.
