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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 375 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.

The Data Platform Engineering Team is looking for a highly talented, self-driven, proven senior software engineer to help design and build core data services that deal with big data (> 90PB) at low latency (i.e. sub-second) for a variety of use-cases spanning near-real time analytics and machine intelligence.

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 300 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.

The Data Platform Engineering Team is looking for a highly talented, self-driven, proven software engineer to help design and build core data services that deal with big data (> 90PB) at low latency (i.e. sub-second) for a variety of use-cases spanning near-real-time analytics and machine intelligence.

Do you consider yourself a software engineer, coder, hacker, inventor, hackerpreneur, etc...?

Are you excited about not just learning new things (languages, frameworks, & technology) but mastering them?

Do you care about building clean APIs, solving tough problems, inventing solutions when needed, and building resilient systems?

Do you believe that your work should not only impact PayPal but the world beyond our 4 walls?

If yes, we would like to talk with you!

Responsibilities

• Think out of the box - don't be afraid to innovate!

• Co-develop & follow best practices related to SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) & Agile methods to raise the level of automation and quality in our code repos

• Embrace open-source – either by using it, extending it, or inventing new projects

• Share your work with the world-at-large via authoring blogs & articles, contributing to open source projects, and by speaking internally (and external to PayPal)

• Balance all of this against the need to execute

• Mentor colleagues to help develop strong coding practices and standards across the organization

Requirements

Proficient in one or more of Java, Scala, Python, and Go is required

Outstanding implementation skills are required

6+ years of experience in developing and/or enhancing scalable server-side components

Good OOP skills combined with solid SDLC practices like code reviews, unit testing, integration testing, and continuous integration

Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across the whole tech stack - language, databases, web servers, and system environment

Experience with one of the relational databases (Oracle, MySQL) and one of the NoSQL databases is a must

Experience in working with high scale systems is a must

Excellent team player and great attitude. Willingness to understand and work through global software development approaches 

Experience in developing RESTful APIs is a must

Experience with Hadoop ecosystem technologies (Spark, Pig, Hive, Impala/Presto, Druid) is a Plus

Experience with UI development is a plus

An open-source contribution is a plus

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.