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: What you need to know about the role: The primary role of the Senior MTS, Software Engineer on the Payments Team is to provide technical and cloud domain expertise in the design and delivery of software and infrastructure. You will be working in an agile environment with a focus on problem-solving and engineering excellence.


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Meet our team:


The PayPal Payment platform team is currently seeking talented, creative, and passionate security engineers to assist in the design and construction of a Settlement Payments platform on a public cloud. This platform processes billions of dollars in payments per year across 195+ countries, impacting over 250 million PayPal users globally. As a self-motivated and enthusiastic member of our team, you will work with extremely talented peers in a fun environment to build highly scalable, configurable, available, and performance-efficient systems.

Your way to impact:

• Opportunity to work on end to end of payments on a architecture that is highly salable, available and fault tolerant, with the sole objective of increasing the PayPal footprint leading to additional revenues, TPV and NNA.
• Have strong business and technical vision and the ability to communicate this vision to multiple stakeholders.
• Be customer focused and passionate about providing world-class solutions for millions of customers across the world.
• Sense evolving business trends and translate them into needs into technology solves.
• Have deep conceptual and technological understanding of contemporary concepts such as mobile development, cloud computing, social networking, Big Data etc.
• Exhibit strong leadership and exceptional technical skills, hands on programming skills.
• Constantly look out for discovering new value by means of innovations, new processes, methodology, product capabilities, patents and more.
• Be willing to represent PayPal and the team within internal and external forums.

Your day to day:

• Frequently interfaces with other functional teams on all aspects of a feature or sub-system.
• Influences senior management on product direction, particularly related to their area of focus and expertise.
• Highly visible across major Engineering organizations, and regularly visible through external forums such as conferences, workshops, or open source initiatives.
• Provides leadership to others, particularly junior Engineers who work on the same team or related features or product sub-systems
• Can be relied on to deliver features and sub-systems on time and to requirements, without quality issues.
• Correctly estimates software schedules, and delivers on time without quality issues.
• Basic mastery of feature or subsystem re-usability, modularity, or scaling.
• Works well within a team, and contributes effectively to the success of those that they interact with regularly.
• Understands the business and is able to contribute to technology direction that contributes to measurable business improvements.
• Can triage and resolve site issues with supervision.
• Able to evangelize innovations, through prototyping or other means.
• Experience in Agile Methodologies
• Provides leadership within their team, and is frequently consulted by Directors throughout their Vice President's organization.
• Can be given new product assignments with minimal supervision.
• May be relied on by an Engineering Director to provide technical direction for an Engineering team of 5 to 10 Engineers


What do you need to bring:

• 14+ years of experience developing software, primarily with object-oriented languages such as JAVA & C++
• Deep understanding of and extensive experience applying advanced object-oriented design and development principles
• Perform high quality software analysis, design, development, testing and maintenance for the PayPal core technology platform
• Leads product design and code reviews; can competently review any aspect of their product or major sub-system.
• Drives architecture discussions, and proposes solutions to system and product changes.
• Spends most of the time developing code, and efficiently produces exemplar and thoroughly tested code for the most challenging features. Code typically persists for the lifetime of a software version.
• Experience developing data-driven applications using an industry standard RDBMS (Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, etc.), including strong data architecture and SQL development skills
• Designs are typically exemplars.
• Complex architectural designs typically require refinement and iteration with more senior Engineers.
• Experience in Unix based development environment (Unix, Shell, Perl, Python) is a plus
• Experience applying software design patterns
• Expertise in online payments and related domains is a plus
• Experience with unit testing (preferably Google Test) and tools
• Strong debugging and problem resolution skills
• Experience using industry standard software development tools (IDE / Version Control / Continuous Integration)
• Expertise in online payments and related domains is a plus


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.