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:
What you need to know about the role: PayPal Software Engineers are strong technologists who are passionate to solve large scale highly complex computer engineering problems. In PayPal, we develop massively scalable, distributed software systems that require high availability to our business.
Job Description:
Your way to impact:
You will build strong competencies in data structures and algorithms, along with a technical fascination for how everything ties together. You will need to have a solid foundational knowledge of computer engineering and intellectual curiosity to understand the business.
Meet our team:
The payments engineering team is responsible for the core movement of money at PayPal. We design, develop, enhance and support processes that actually move money at PayPal. Our solutions need to scale across millions of such interactions globally and integrate with various other vendors while providing high availability to the business.
Your day to day:
As a key member of the Payments engineering team, you will architect, design, test, deploy and maintain software solutions.
What do you need to bring:
- Knowledge of UNIX
- Some SQL knowledge - preferably Oracle
- Working knowledge of web technologies (such as HTTP, HTML/DOM, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX) is beneficial
- Interest in performance tuning in grid computing/large scale clusters a plus
- Ability to work in a fast paced, iterative development environment
- Participation in any Open source project is a big plus