Front-End Software Engineer (React, JavaScript)

Job Description

About the Role

Join PayPal's Merchant Engineering team as a Front-End Software Engineer. Our 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.

Responsibilities

• Develop efficient, elegant, clean, reusable code with no unnecessary complication or abstraction.
• Exhibit ownership and deliver quality solutions on schedule.
• Create and review well-articulated, detailed design documents.
• 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 and proactively respond to identifying and troubleshooting integration or technical issues.

Requirements

• 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.
• Deep understanding of and extensive experience applying advanced object-oriented design and development principles.
• Strong debugging and problem resolution skills.
• Focus on test-driven development and automation.

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, including a flexible work environment, employee share options, health and life insurance, and more.

Work Environment

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, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

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. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

If you are excited about solving hard problems for our customers, working with a passionate and dedicated engineering team, and are focused on constant improvement as an engineer, then please apply!