Who we are

Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 392 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom, enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.

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Job Description Summary:

The Developer Ecosystem Engineering team is looking for a passionate engineer to build and evangelize a world class developer experience for our customers. Customers around the world depend on PayPal’s developer tools, SDKs, and APIs to keep their businesses thriving, and developers working with PayPal’s products need a developer experience that is easy to understand, consistent, simple to integrate, and innovative to be successful.

You will play a pivotal role in building and evangelizing the next generation of PayPal’s developer experiences. We’re looking for someone who is eager to learn and able to master many technologies and has a strong focus on understanding what our customers want. We hold ourselves to the highest ethical standards, empower an open and diverse workplace, and strive to treat everyone who is touched by our business with dignity and respect.

Job Description:

Our focus is teaming with smart engineers who are passionate about their craft and excited to build software for our unique solutions in the space. Communication is key to our process, and we don't want to hinder it with walls. Our teams are geographically diverse and adept at collaborating across long distances. Some of our teams utilize pair programming, which means you always have another set of eyes to help you; teams that don’t utilize pair programming still emphasize collaboration as key to building quality solutions.

The Role:

We are looking for a passionate, highly talented, self-driven individual to join our team! In this role, you will be responsible for building a strong developer community and being a passionate evangelist and advocate of PayPal with the external developer and partners.

You will play a pivotal role in building the next generation of PayPal’s developer experience for our customers. You will build tools, utilities, sites leveraging APIs and contribute code to open source. You will be responsible for driving adoption of our platform thru various developer outreach program like conference, blogs, videos etc. You will also build a strong internal community through new hire training and certification programs.

What is expected of you :

• Drive your team’s engineering efforts and demonstrate ownership of features, projects, modules, and services that you and your team deliver
• Play a key role in our broader architectural decision-making processes
• Be a champion of high-performance, secure, and reliable software services
• Participate and drive support in external developer forum
• Participate/Speak in conferences, blogs and create developer advocacy videos
• Develop software prototypes and POCs
• Develop reference/demo and test applications leveraging Paypal APIs and SDKs
• Be a social media presence for the product/developer experience
• Continuously learn and Keep up to date with competition and market
• Participate actively in public discussions and other publications
• Create short and informative video tutorials
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with any and all non-technical stakeholders (Product, Design, Analytics, Legal, Marketing, etc.)
• Work with your Agile team to achieve shared understanding around the new products and features under consideration
• Actively contribute to our automated test suite to enable speedy and reliable continuous integration
• Bring fresh ideas for how to continuously improve our software and your team

What do we look for :

• You have a Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, a related field of study, or 7+ years of related professional experience
• Expertise in computer science fundamentals like data structures, complexity analysis, object-oriented design and algorithm
• You are skilled in writing scalable software systems and familiar with topics and technologies like containers, distributed computing, routing, cluster management, etc.
• You care about writing high-quality code, and you've written your fair share of automated tests to back up your code
• You're passionate about creating compelling user experiences
• You're ultimately a problem solver, and you enjoy working both independently and collaboratively to identify the root cause of any issue
• Experience in scripting and prototyping and demonstrated developing POCs
• Expertise in server side application development using Java, Go      
• Have experience presenting in conferences/social media and have a passion for sharing and supporting
• Keep up to date on industry trends and technologies and apply them quickly to our products.

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

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Primary Location:

Austin, Texas, United States of America

Additional Locations:

Chicago

We're a purpose-driven company whose beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day.  We hold ourselves to our One Team Behaviors which demand that we hold the highest ethical standards, to empower an open and diverse workplace, and strive to treat everyone who is touched by our business with dignity and respect.  Our employees challenge the status quo, ask questions, and find solutions.  We want to break down barriers to financial empowerment.  Join us as we change the way the world defines financial freedom.

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.