Software Engineer, Back End

We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts.

What you need to know about the role- As a Backend Software Engineer, you will build and run the Java services behind the PayPal POS experience: checkout and purchase, commerce services (product library, inventory, gift cards, refunds, invoices), merchant identity, and the payments and payouts that move money. You will join a structured knowledge-transfer program with our Sweden team, then take on-call and feature ownership for the services you learn. Meet our team Zettle SMB Direct is the part of PayPal that builds the native point-of-sale experience for small and medium-sized businesses: the PayPal POS app (formerly Zettle Go) and the Zettle Terminal.

About PayPal

The Company 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.

We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards.

Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other.

We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk.

We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade.

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 – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.

And we can’t do this without our most important asset-you.

Click Here to learn more about our culture and community.

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.

Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued.

We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.

Responsibilities

• We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds.
• Merchants use it to take card and tap payments, run checkout, manage their product library and inventory, issue receipts, handle refunds and invoices, and see what they earned.
• Essential Responsibilities: Implements tasks within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), receiving structure and oversight from more experienced staff

Follows well-established internal conventions and standard procedures

• Understands internal standards & processes an applies them to make technical decisions
• Collaborates with peers, manager, and project lead to gain understanding of tasks and review solutions
• May contribute to code & design reviews

Requirements

• 1+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Design, build, test and release features and fixes in Java services (Dropwizard, Gradle) that run on AWS. • Work with REST APIs, SQS/SNS messaging, PostgreSQL and Cassandra-compatible stores, and handle idempotency, retries and dead-letter queues. • Join on-call: first shadowing, then as primary for the services you own. • Investigate production issues using dashboards, logs and traces, and fix root causes. • Pair with Sweden engineers, review pull requests, and write and update runbooks and documentation. • Follow PCI and security practices when working near cardholder or financial data.
• What do you need to bring- • 1 to 3 years of software engineering experience, with strong Java and object-oriented design. • Experience building and operating REST services; familiarity with AWS (ECS/Fargate or similar, SQS/SNS, RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, S3). • Solid understanding of concurrency, testing, and debugging distributed systems. • Awareness of event-driven design: idempotency, ordering, retries and eventual consistency. • Interest in payments; prior payments, fintech or other regulated-domain experience is a plus. • Nice to have: Cassandra/Keyspaces, GraphQL, OAuth, Terraform. • Clear written and spoken
• English, and comfort working across time zones with teammates in Bangalore and Sweden. • A habit of writing things down: runbooks, design notes and decision records. • Curiosity about payments and a sense of care for the merchants and customers who depend on the product. We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates.

Preferred

• Your way to impact • Keep checkout, purchase and refund flows fast and correct for merchants taking payments every day. • Take ownership of services in the Commerce & Checkout, Identity & Backbook, or Money Movement areas, with growing independence. • Improve reliability by learning the failure modes of event-driven systems and writing the runbooks that make the next incident shorter. • Help migrate legacy Zettle merchants onto PayPal identity with no disruption to their business.

Benefits

• At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy.
• That’s why we offer comprehensive, choice-based programs, to support all aspects of personal wellbeing—physical, emotional, and financial—delivering meaningful value where it matters most.
• We strive to create a flexible, balanced work culture with a holistic approach to benefits, including generous paid time off, healthcare coverage for you and your family, and resources to create financial security and support your mental health.

Please don't hesitate to apply.

Subsidiary

PayPal Travel Percent: 0 PayPal does not charge candidates any fees for courses, applications, resume reviews, interviews, background checks, or onboarding. When making an application directly, we will never ask you to share passwords, one-time passcodes (OTP), or verification codes. Any such request is a red flag and likely part of a scam. All communication regarding your application will come from official PayPal email domains. If you suspect fraudulent activity, please report it immediately. To learn more about how to identify and avoid recruitment fraud please visit https://careers.pypl.com/contact-us . 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, 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 unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at paypalglobaltalentacquisition@paypal.com .

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