Job Summary
What You Need to Know About the Role
As part of the Checkout Engineering team, you ll help develop and deliver the applications and services that power PayPal s Checkout experiences. You ll collaborate with product, design, and analytics teams to understand buyer and merchant needs. We re seeking motivated, detail-oriented engineers passionate about creating exceptional products and user experiences, with strong communication and teamwork skills. Meet Our Team At PayPal Checkout Engineering, we build experiences used by millions of merchants and shoppers worldwide. Our mission is to craft sophisticated, customized checkout solutions. As pioneers in global-scale payments, we constantly experiment, innovate, and collaborate to deliver seamless and engaging payment experiences.
Job Description
Essential Responsibilities
- Implements tasks within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), receiving structure and oversight from more experienced staff
- Follows well-established internal conventions and standard procedures
- Understands internal standards & processes an applies them to make technical decisions
- Collaborates with peers, manager, and project lead to gain understanding of tasks and review solutions
- May contribute to code & design reviews
Expected Qualifications
- 1+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications
Your Way to Impact
As a backend engineer for PayPal Checkout, you will deliver complete solutions and features spanning all phases of our software development lifecycle. In this role, you will be responsible for shaping the future of PayPals customer facing checkout products. This will be accomplished through implementation of technical designs, direct contributions to architectural decisions , influencing the technical direction of our applications and systems . You will be responsible for developing industry-leading experiences that bring unquestionable value to both merchants and buyers . You will use your years of technical expertise and a solid understanding of the business domain to help us improve the scale, reliability, and performance of our platforms.
Your Day to Day
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Demonstrate end-to-end ownership of features, projects, modules, and services that you deliver in all phases of the software development lifecycle .
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Contribute to software performance, identifying and resolving bottlenecks via monitoring, logging, and metrics to enhance the user experience.
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Contribute to clean, scalable, high-performing, secure, and reliable software services, in all areas, including coding, documentation, automation, etc.
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Contribute to critical non-functional requirements (Availability, Security, Performance, Scalability, and Observability), and improve automated test strategies, build and deploy processes to enable speedy and reliable continuous integration.
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Collaborate with other development teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment of client-side applications, automating and enhancing build, test, and deployment processes.
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Communicate effectively with all technical and non-technical partners and stakeholders (Architecture, Developer Experience, Product, Design, Analytics, Legal, Marketing, etc.) as well as within your team to ensure shared understanding around the new products and features under consideration.
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Stay up-to-date with the latest industry standards, tools, and technologies related to client-side development, observability, and DevOps practices, and drive their adoption within the team.
What You bring
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Expertise in at least one server-side language such as Java, C++, C#, Go, Python, Kotlin, or Ruby .
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A history building modern, resilient and operationally efficient backend systems exemplifying industry standards (HTTP REST, GraphQL , Serverless, SOA, etc ).
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Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and those in non-technical roles, such as marketing, finance, and legal
Subsidiary
PayPal
Travel Percent
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For the majority of employees, PayPals 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
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 .
Who We Are
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 .
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