Lead Software Engineer (Full Stack)

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.

Job Description Summary:

What you need to know about the role:
Consumer Experience (CXP) Engineering team builds user experiences used by millions of consumers across the globe. As a lead engineer, working for the global leader, PayPal’s Consumer engineering organization, you will have an impact on PayPal’s products all around the world.
Meet our team:
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:

Your way to impact:

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.

Your day-to-day:

• 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.

What you need to bring:

• 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 analyze 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/microservices in a enterprise setting.
• Cognizant 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.

Additional Job Description:

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

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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:

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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 [email protected].

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.

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