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Strategic Market Insights Lead

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

 

 

Job Description Summary:

We are looking for an innovative professional to join PayPal’s Markets, Policy and Innovation Insights team. The team is responsible for helping PayPal’s leadership to make the big decisions that will guide the company’s future.  Our team is highly visible within the organization and our clients are PayPal’s team of senior global executives—including the CEO.

 

Job Description:

We are looking for an innovative professional to join PayPal’s Markets, Policy and Innovation Insights team. The team is responsible for helping PayPal’s leadership to make the big decisions that will guide the company’s future. Our team is highly visible within the organization and our clients are PayPal’s team of senior global executives—including the CEO.

Core Responsibilities:

• Research and analysis: Conduct and/or lead key qualitative (e.g., primary research, synthesis of secondary data sources) and quantitative (e.g., Excel modelling) analysis in support of deliverables.
• Thought leadership: Support PayPal’s senior leadership team by keeping in touch with market developments and articulating their impact to PayPal.
• Strategic execution: Support strategic projects core to the strategy of PayPal into the execution phase. Help to develop documents to facilitate cross-functional discussions as well as communicate with Senior Management.

 

Skills/experience:

• Minimum 2-3 years’ experience in strategy consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy and/or competitive intelligence.
• MBA or quantitative degree from a top school preferred but not mandatory.
• Experience in financial services (particularly payments), technology and/or e-commerce preferred.
• World class strategic and analytical thinking, with a demonstrated ability to synthesize multiple sources of information (quantitative and qualitative) to solve complex problems in a structured, data-driven way.
• Experience in providing strategic advice to complex global organizations.
• Superior communications (verbal, prose, PowerPoint) and influencing skills
• Track record of delivering tangible results.
• Appetite to learn and comfort with uncertainty.

 

Subsidiary:

PayPal

 

Travel Percent:

0

 

 

 

 

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PayPal is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

 

Actual Compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to work location, and relevant skills and experience.

 

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

 

The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is

$64000 to $156750

 

 

 

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.

 

Our Benefits:

At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset—you. That’s why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.

We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

 

Who We Are:

Click Here to learn more about our culture and community.

 

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 talentaccommodations@paypal.com.

 

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. 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.

Full Stack Engineer

What you need to know about the role-

We are looking for the best Full Stack Web Application engineers, who have a passion for developing massively scalable, distributed software systems that require high availability to support mission-critical business tasks. Quality is at the forefront of everything we do, and we are looking for true craftsmen that are passionate about writing robust, re-usable, scalable, well-tested code.

On the personality side, you are the right person for PayPal if you are willing to:
-Drive to get results and not let anything get in your way
-Be proactive and anticipate/handle issues before they blowup
-Exhibit a strong backbone and challenge the status quo when needed
-Demonstrate a high level of curiosity and keep abreast of the latest technologies
-Show pride of ownership and strive for excellence in everything you do
-Show pride and passion for helping businesses thrive around the globe

Meet our team

This role is for the Payments Tools & Frameworks team which is part of the overall Payments organization which is the heart of what PayPal does by handling all of payment transactions involving PayPal and other partners. As part of the framework team, our mission is to develop tools and frameworks that helps developers to ensure that we are not compromising on key attributes like quality, availability, and extreme reliability. We work on building tools and Frameworks which focuses on 4 major areas, Prevention – focusing on catching issue before going LIVE, Detection – focusing on how fast we can detect and triage the issue on LIVE, Recovery -focusing on building tools for recovering from an Incident that happened on production site, Dev Productivity – focusing on automating day-2-day repetitive developer activities.

 

Job Description:

Your way to impact

 

As a member of our team, you will work directly with Designers, Product Owners and Domain Technical Leads to create robust software solutions and deliver dependable products. You’ll also estimate engineering efforts, prioritize projects, plan implementations, and triage production issues. You need to be dynamic, collaborative, and curious as we build new experiences and improve existing products. You will work in a fast-paced environment where continuous innovation and experimentation are a given.

 

Your day to day

In your day-to-day role you will

• Develop efficient, elegant, clean, reusable code with no unnecessary complication or abstraction.
• Deliver quality solutions on schedule.
• Create / Review well-articulated, detailed design documents.
• Presents issues and solutions to audiences of varying sizes and can provide deep technical support across a range of functionality.
• Manages workload and other assignments efficiently while being able to resolve time-critical situations reliably and professionally.
• Participates in the development of tools, systems and processes aimed at improving product supportability or overall support productivity.

 

What do you need to bring-

 

Technical Skills

• Solid knowledge of JavaScript, Java (or backend languages ), HTML & CSS
• Good Exposure to REACT with any state management library
• Strong problem-solving skills and software experience including design and development methodologies
• Strong OOP skills, ability to analyse requirements and prepare design.
• Hands on experience with common open-source and front-end technologies.
• Hands on experience with REST API’s, Web Services, Unit Testing, Java Build tools.
• Hands on experience with Spring or any web MVC frameworks.
• Oracle, SQL, JDBC/ORM, JMS, App servers / Servlet containers, Maven/Git/Continuous integration.
• Understanding and Hands on experience of Cloud Infrastructure (GCP) and product suite (GCS, BigQuery, Firestore etc.)
• Exposure and knowledge of Observability frameworks like Datadog etc.

 

 

Personal Traits

• Be a quick learner undaunted by complex systems.
• Take risks and thrive in an environment of constant change.
• Contributed to building the complete life cycle of transaction processing preferably in payments domain.
• Experience in refactoring existing code base and in understanding existing implementations to decide to refactor or rewrite.
• Exposure and participation in tech events, hackathons, contributions to open source, authoring of blogs and active participation in online tech forums is a plus.
• Passion for developing robust, scalable software systems.
• Highly motivated, goal driven, Can-do approach.
• Innovative, entrepreneurial, team player, ability to multi-task.

Senior Software Engineer

What you need to know about the role

As a member of the Observability Platform team, you will be responsible for the development and delivery of the applications and services that power PayPal’s Enterprise Observability platform. You will work closely with product, design, and developments teams to understand what their observability needs are. We’re looking for talented, motivated, and detail-oriented technologists with a passion for building robust systems at scale. We value collaboration, communication, and a passion for achieving engineering and product excellence.

Meet our team

The Observability Team at PayPal is responsible for providing world-class platform that can collect, ingest, store, alert and visualize data from many different sources in PayPal – like application logs, infrastructure, Virtual Machines, Containers, Network, Load Balancers etc. The platform should provide functionalities that enables different teams in PayPal to gain business insights and debugging/triaging of issues in an easy-to-use and intuitive and self-service manner. The platform should be scalable to support the data needs for PayPal (fortune 500 company); be highly available at 99.9% or higher; be reliable and fault-tolerant across the different physical data centers and thousands for micro services.

You’ll work alongside the best and the brightest engineering talent in the industry. You need to be dynamic, collaborative, and curious as we build new experiences and improvise the Observability platform running at a scale few companies can match.

 

Job Description:

Your way to Impact

 

As an engineer in our development team, you will be responsible for developing the next gen PayPal’s Observability platform, support the long-term reliability and scalability of the system and will be involved in implementations that avoid/minimize the day-to-day support work to keep the systems up and running. If you are passionate about application development, systems design, scaling beyond 99.999% reliability and working in a highly dynamic environment with a team of smart and talented engineers then this is the job for you.You will work closely with product and experience and/or development teams to understand the developer needs around observability and deliver the functions that meets their needs. The possibilities are unlimited for disruptive thinking, and you will have an opportunity to be a part of making history in the niche Observability area.

 

Your day-to-day

In your day-to-day role you will

• Be Involved in development & support work on the Observability team.
• Be required to quickly ramp-up on the many different components/services – built on different technology stacks, Operations Systems and use different build and deploy pipelines – to add new features and fix issues.
• Be able to work closely with the users of the system to understand their problems and exercise empathy and maturity while working with them to solve the problems.
• Continue to work with the Architects to guide the vision and direction for the Observability team technically.
• Collaborate with other engineers on code reviews, internal infrastructure improvements and process enhancements.
• Understand the different use cases for the Observability Domain across the different teams and help guide evaluation and adoption of a next generation Observability Platform for PayPal that is scalable, reliable and fault tolerant.
• Help with evaluation using Proof of Concept on the different options/solutions selected that should solve for all the use cases.
• Ensure minimal operational overhead by automating maintenance tasks with easily manageable configurations, solving scalability bottlenecks to improve performance and maximize system availability by ensuring functional and performance SLAs.
• Design, implement, and test complex, multi-tier distributed software application frameworks collaboratively with peers and technical leaders.
• Be able to troubleshoot and help fix performance, scalability, and other live issues in a very time critical environment.
• Be able to work collaboratively with team members to achieve end vision.
• Be part of the interview team to hire and build a world class engineering team that will make an impact on how we do engineering at PayPal.

What do you need to bring

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical discipline (or equivalent experience)
• 8+ years’ experience in developing large scale applications is an ideal candidate.
• Very strong foundational knowledge in Object-Oriented Design Principles, Data Structures, Algorithms, SQL/NoSQL, Operating Systems, and Software Engineering.
• Hands-On experience in Java, Shell Scripting, Unix, jQuery, Python, and working knowledge with cloud platforms like Google BigQuery.
• Understanding of concurrency, parallelism, networking, with profound data structure & algorithms
• Knowledge of DevOps container/orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker, Puppet, etc.) and UI frameworks (NodeJS, React).
• Ability to isolate errors by trouble-shooting the application stack from application to framework to underlying infrastructure dependencies and network.
• Experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Experience with REST API, GIT, Docker, Jenkins, and Spring boot.
• Strong applied experience. You’ve built, broken, and rebuilt software applications.

 

**We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don’t hesitate to apply.