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.


Summary: Merchant Engineering team is looking for a talented front-end engineer with strong application engineering fundamentals and JavaScript programming experience to design and build solutions supporting our merchant engagement strategy. Life at PayPal =========== We make sure our people are happy, connected, having fun and see the real-life impact of their work while they're crafting solutions that will bring security, confidence and convenience to individuals and businesses around the world. To know more visit: https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/jobs/culture


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What you need to know about the role:


Looking for technically strong candidate, with hands on development experience in front end technologies, who is self-motivated, team player, with curiosity to learn and grow, exhibiting strong resolve and challenge the status quo, to strive for excellence in everything they do, with good professional and academic track record to be part of a team that deals with most innovative payments processing team that deals transactions at scale.

Meet our team:


Merchant Engineering's mission is to simplify commerce by providing a one-stop payment platform for all customer segments.


We are the customer-facing teams within Product and Platform Engineering building the touchpoints that interact with our customers across all stacks (PayPal, Braintree and Hyperwallet), across all channels (online and in-store, web and mobile) for our Merchants.


Within Commerce Solutions and Services, PayPal's Merchant Engineering team is looking for a talented front-end engineer with strong application engineering fundamentals and JavaScript programming experience to design and build solutions supporting our merchant engagement strategy.


Every day we come to work looking to develop innovative solutions that deliver high customer value on a scale. If you are excited about solving hard problems for our customers, working with a passionate and dedicated engineering team, and are focused on constant improvement as an engineer then please apply!

Your Way to Impact:


You will be responsible for Developing efficient, elegant, clean, reusable code with no unnecessary complication or abstraction. Mentor other engineers and developers by providing technical and business-related guidance and resources; Should exhibit ownership and Deliver quality solutions on schedule. Will be responsible to create / Review well-articulated, detailed design documents.

Your Day to Day:

• Own implementation of a module/application/product
• Develop efficient, elegant, clean, reusable code with no unnecessary complication or abstraction.
• Participate in complex architectural discussions that involve multiple systems.
• Identify any product/functionality gaps and collaborate internal product and technology teams to define the necessary development to support solution delivery.
• Drive operation excellence.
• Pro-active response in identifying and troubleshooting integration or technical issues.
• Challenge the status quo when needed.
• Ownership and strive for excellence in your role.

What you need to bring to the role:

• 8+ years of experience developing with fundamental front end languages such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Proficiency with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React and TypeScript.
• Experience with REST API's, Web Services, Unit Testing and build tools.
• Deep understanding of and extensive experience applying advanced object-oriented design and development principles.
• Intermediate level understanding of designing and developing data

intensive applications and architecting them for scalability and

availability.
• Experience applying software design patterns, data structures, algorithms.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience collaborating with business users to define the key business requirements and translate them into process/technical solutions.
• Experience in application performance fine tuning is a plus.
• Experience with unit testing using Junit and writing functional testing.
• Experience using industry standard software development tools (IDE / Version Control / Continuous Integration)


Strong debugging and problem resolution skills:

• Expertise in online payments and related domains is a plus
• Focuses on test driven development and automation.
• Believes in Agile development and are comfortable with SCRUM process.
• Refactor existing codebase and in understanding existing

implementations to decide to refactor or rewrite.
• Identify Performance bottlenecks and use good coding patterns to avoid them.
• Strong advocate of good coding standards and preach code-coverage tools like Sonar.


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





PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering more than 400 million consumers and merchants in more than 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit paypal.com.


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.



As part of PayPal's commitment to employees' health and safety, we have established in-office Covid-19 protocols and requirements, based on expert guidance. Depending on location, this might include a Covid-19 vaccination requirement for any employee whose role requires them to work onsite. Employees may request reasonable accommodation based on a medical condition or religious belief that prevents them from being vaccinated.