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.
Job Description Summary:
Do you want to have a positive impact on the world? A career at PayPal is more than just a job. It’s a chance to have a positive impact on the lives of 100+ million people. PayPal has made it simpler for money to change hands and is helping millions of people around the world to accept payments, grow their businesses and make a better life for themselves and their families. At PayPal, people are our most important asset. We value hard workers and fast learners who are constantly looking to get better. You can expect to get better every day and to be constantly challenged with interesting technical problems due to the size, scale and scope of the problems we need to solve on the bleeding edge of the payments space. Our work environment is collaborative, innovative, results-driven, and completely focused on the customer. PayPal’s Core Payments team is looking for a talented, creative, and passionate backend engineer to help build a new payment engine. As a self-motivated and enthusiastic member of our team, you will work with extremely talented peers in a fun environment building performance-efficient payment authorization services that are highly scalable, configurable and available You will be responsible for helping to build a payments engine that does real-time processing for millions of payments every single day for merchants that you probably shop at. You’ll work in an Agile environment with a focus on problem-solving and engineering excellence. There are several technology choices for you to work on, with the main focus being on Java, Python and NoSQL databases. Your responsibilities will include: Designing, developing, and testing features and functions delivered via applications and services. Collaborating with peers and senior engineers/architects both within your team and across the organization to create technical solutions and working with product managers using Agile methodologies to deliver high-quality user experiences that delight PayPal’s customers working with the operations teams to ensure your applications and services are highly available and reliable.
What you need to know about the role:
• PayPal Payments Platform organization is looking for a Manager of Software Development, to lead and manage our Real-Time Auth Capture Engine (ACE) Platform team in Bangalore, India. We are looking for an engineering manager with recent people-management experience, who comes from an engineering background and has proven leadership capability.
Meet our team:
• The Payments Platform Organization is responsible for all things payments—forward money movement, reverse money movement, store of value, store of record, and cloud—anything that is related to payments, which this team is directly impacting. Software engineers at PayPal’s core payments team develop innovative solutions and high-quality products that make PayPal a world-renowned payment processor and a dominant player in the industry.
• We are looking for a leader who will build and guide our team to support platforms and processes that would allow our engineers to solve some of the most complex technical problems in the world of connected payments. As a manager of this critical payments domain, you would need to work across all business units, including PayPal, Braintree, Venmo, Xoom, HyperWallet and others.
Job Description:
Your way to impact
- You love solving problems and building solutions.
• You’re self-motivated and have a demonstrated track record of self-learning and going above and beyond
• You’re excited to create high-traffic backend services for external customer-facing web applications
• You want to hit the ground running on Day 1; you take ownership of your
work and can work independently.
• You’ve designed web applications and clearly understand concepts like Web Services, SOA, and REST APIs.
• You know the fundamentals of Object Oriented Programming using Java; familiarity with additional development tools such as JUnit, Maven & Jenkins is a plus.
• You love Git and are at home with source control concepts such as merge, rebase and pull.
• You’ve used SQL & NoSQL solutions and understand the pros and cons of relational and free-form databases.
• You’re comfortable using application server frameworks, for example, Tomcat
or JBOSS.
• You believe in Agile development and putting the customer first in anything you design; experience with SCRUM is a plus.
• You’re a strong advocate of good coding standards and like the use of coding tools that will push you to improve the code you deliver like Sonar.
• You know how to identify performance bottlenecks and use good coding patterns to avoid them in the first place.
• The ideal candidate understands the complexity of a fully scaled-out microservices architecture and can make intuitive judgements on how to support it in a highly reliable and effective manner. You will manage and work alongside the best and the brightest engineering talent in the industry. As the leader of the team, you’ll estimate engineering efforts, prioritize projects, plan implementations, and triage production issues.
• You will have the opportunity to leverage your dynamic, collaborative, and curious mindset to lead your team to do their best work—to build new experiences, improve existing products, and develop distributed systems powering the world’s largest e-commerce and payments websites at a scale only a few companies can match. You will work with both established and cutting-edge technologies like Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Camel, J2EE, JaxB, JSON, Protobuf, RxJava, RxNetty, Hibernate, and Hystrix or Resilience4J to build highly resilient, low-latency, high throughput and with 4 9's availability services.
Your day-to-day:
• Lead and inspire a high-performing engineering team— driving a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on engineering excellence, execution, and craftsmanship
• Lead complex technical and strategic discussions that involve multiple stakeholders including engineering, architect, product, customer, and other business units
• Develop trusted partnerships with developers, partners, and architecture leaders to drive optimized platform product delivery
• Drive business results effectively—implement effective, mature Agile practices, balance urgent and effective action, hold internal stakeholders accountable where appropriate, and manage key outcomes using KPIs and metrics
• Build, coach, and manage a strong team of engineers that set the standard and can up-level the overall talent of the extended organization
• Anticipate and aggressively remove obstacles that slow down or prevent products and programs from delivering on product and program objectives
What do you need to bring:
• Demonstrated strength in leading all phases of the Product Lifecycle, including setting the vision., roadmap planning, capturing requirements, project definition, execution, and operational excellence
• Experience solving problems involving scaling and bringing innovation in high-pressure environments
• Knowledge of Microservices interactions, Cloud Technologies, CI/CD, Jenkins, and Testing methodologies is preferred
• Strong communication, listening, interpersonal, influencing, and negotiation skills; able to convey important messages in a clear and compelling manner
• Ability to effectively manage a geographically distributed team while building a culture of accountability, quality, innovation, and inclusion
Additional Job Description:
Subsidiary:
PayPal
Travel Percent:
0Bachelors Degree or Equivalent (Required)
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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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.
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