Staff Software Engineer - Backend API
PayPal Inc.

Chicago, Illinois

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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.

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Job Description Summary:
What you need to know about the role:

The API team runs, maintains and develops the single public API for Braintree.
Our stack is mainly GraphQL in Java on AWS in multiple regions.

Meet our team:

You will be developing and improving Braintree's only public API.
Our mission is to develop a best-in-class API for easy, quick and robust integration on a global scale.
The API serves most of Braintree's merchants and a few Fortune 10 companies are integrating directly.

Job Description:

Your way to impact:

You will be Improve and enhance an API that funnels funds like very few API's in the world do.
It is a great responsibility and opportunity to own such a vital infrastructure.
Improving the latency (for example) by a ~10ms can cause a major change in the bottom line, the impact is unmatched.

Your day to day:

  • Pair with engineers inside and outside the team to build and improve our services.
  • Collaborate, communicate and integrate with multiple engineering teams.
  • Develop a high-level view of the functions, usages, and needs of all of Braintree's external APIs, and use this to drive architecture decisions.
  • Trace bugs and errors through multiple systems, including ones you don't own, sometimes on behalf of customer-facing teammates.
  • Drive team discussions on technical strategy, system architecture, and component design.
  • Participate in all stages of the software development cycle, including design and development of significant new architectural systems and improvements.
  • Develop and maintain technical documentation.
  • Participate in 24/7 on-call team rotation of the services we own.

What do you need to bring:

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional backend software development.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Deep GraphQL API backend experience and developing complex mutations.
  • Proficient in Java.
  • Excellent skills in complex technical problem-solving.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Solid understanding of distributed systems and cloud architectures.
  • Ability to present technical problems to non-technical audiences.
  • Experience with Kubernetes.
  • Experience working in a large engineering environment, coordinating across multiple teams, and leading organization-wide projects.

**We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.

Additional Job Description:

Subsidiary:
Braintree

Travel Percent:
0

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PayPal is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

Actual Compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to work location, and relevant skills and experience.

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is
$84500 to $204600

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:
Click Here to learn more about our culture and community.

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.


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