Software Engineer

Software Engineer

At PayPal, 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.

Job Description

PayPal's Digital Wallet Engineering Team is looking for a Software Engineer with expertise delivering code for the personalization platform systems and components. You will work in a fast-paced environment where continuous innovations and experimentations are a given. We want people who are highly technical, with a solid understanding of the e-commerce domain, and well-versed in software implementation. We teach and learn from one another and push each other to be at our creative and analytical bests.

Your Day-to-Day

• Lead engineering effort(s), taking ownership of multiple larger project features, modules, or services.
• Ability to craft the long-term technology strategy or vision for the team.
• Tackle the most complicated problems in terms of technology and business.
• Ability to represent the personalization platform to the PayPal organization.
• Mentor juniors in the team and help them to sharpen their technical finesse.
• Ability to reduce tech debt and have a plan to remove them from the system.
• Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision in a team to define, design, implement, test, release rollout, and support software applications for PayPal.
• Work with business units to crystallize business needs into product features.
• Work with engineering managers, engineers & QA to develop innovative solutions that meet market needs (functionality, performance, reliability, realistic implementations schedules, and adherence to development goals and principles).
• Develop new team capabilities to ensure continued competence and relevance in supporting the software development needs of PayPal's business.
• Define and devise processes, tools, and methodologies to achieve excellence in software development, testing, and deployment.
• Follow the team processes such as Agile. etc.

What You Need to Bring

• Experience in all phases of enterprise software design, development and testing
• Expertise with Java, REST APIs with distributed services and backend systems
• Familiar with payments processing or payments domain
• Expertise in systems integration
• Knowledge of messaging/queuing protocols/systems such as Kafka a major 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

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 View email address on click.appcast.io.

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.