Senior Front-end Engineer

The Company

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PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person.

PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness.

Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do.

Job Description Summary :

This is a Sr Front-End Engineer position with the Merchant Platform team.

Job Description :

What you need to know about the role :

Merchant Engineering’s mission is to simplify commerce by providing a one-stop payment platform for all customer segments.

We are the customer-facing teams within Product and Platform Engineering building the touchpoints that interact with our customers across all stacks (PayPal, Braintree and Hyperwallet), across all channels (online and in-store, web and mobile) for our Merchants.

Within Commerce Solutions and Services, PayPal’s Merchant Engineering team is looking for a talented front-end engineer with strong application engineering fundamentals and JavaScript programming experience to design and build solutions supporting our merchant engagement strategy.

Your Way to Impact :

You will be responsible for developing efficient, elegant, clean, reusable code with no unnecessary complication or abstraction.

You should exhibit ownership and deliver quality solutions on schedule. You will be responsible to create / review well-articulated, detailed design documents.

Your Day to Day :

• Own implementation of a module / application / product.
• Design, develop, test, and deploy robust software solutions in a Linux / Unix environment, ensuring high performance, security, and scalability.
• Participate in complex architectural discussions that involve multiple systems.
• Identify any product / functionality gaps and collaborate with internal product and technology teams to define the necessary development to support solution delivery.
• Drive operational excellence.
• Proactive response in identifying and troubleshooting integration or technical issues.
• Challenge the status quo when needed.
• Ownership and strive for excellence in your role.

What you need to bring to the role :

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or an equivalent combination of technical education and work experience.
• 3+ years’ experience building software or web applications with object-oriented or functional programming languages.
• Expert knowledge in React JS fundamentals, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Node.js, and Express.js.
• Good knowledge of testing frameworks and deployment techniques.
• Hands-on experience in leveraging languages like TypeScript for developing GraphQL APIs.
• Intermediate level understanding of Java, Spring, REST API, and Messaging Architectures like ActiveMQ / Kafka (experience in development is a plus).
• Deep understanding of and extensive experience applying advanced object-oriented design and development principles.
• Intermediate level understanding of designing and developing data-intensive applications, and architecting them for scalability and availability.
• Demonstrated ability to scope, create and successfully deploy new strategies / initiatives / capabilities.
• Experience applying software design patterns, data structures, algorithms.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong debugging and problem resolution skills.
• Focuses on test-driven development and automation.
• Experience collaborating with business users to define the key business requirements and translate them into process / technical solutions.
• Experience developing automated unit, integration, and functional tests.
• Experience in performance aspects like caching, code splitting, lazy loading, pagination, etc., and security aspects like authentication, CORS, XSS.
• Experience interacting with engineering teams from multiple geo-locations.
• Should have good communication skills.
• Expertise in online payments / loan management systems and related domains is a plus.

PayPal is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The total compensation for this role may include an annual performance bonus, equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits.

For more information, visit paypalbenefits.com.

The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is $72,700 to $176,000.

For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace.

Our Benefits :

At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. We offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life.

We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee share options, health and life insurance, and more.

To learn more about our benefits please visit paypalbenefits.com.

Who We Are :

To learn more about our culture and community visit about.pypl.com.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

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.

Belonging at PayPal :

Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging.

We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve.

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please join our Talent Community.

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