Sr Software Engineer, Back End

PayPal, Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

PayPal is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to own the design and reliability of Java services across checkout, commerce, identity and money movement for PayPal POS. You will lead technical work to take ownership from the Sweden team, shape plans, mentor engineers, and ensure critical payment flows are robust.

We are a growing engineering team in Bangalore working with colleagues in Sweden to build and integrate backend systems that power our global payments platform.

Qualifications

• 3+ years relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

• Delivers complete solutions across the SDLC for backend services.
• Advises management on project-level issues and guides junior engineers.
• Owns design decisions and operates with minimal supervision.
• Sets technical direction for checkout, commerce, identity and money movement.
• Acts as incident commander and manages SLOs with SRE teams.

Skills

Java

Backend engineering

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

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 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 Summary

What you need to know about the role

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will own the design and reliability of Java services across checkout, commerce, identity and money movement for PayPal POS. You will lead the technical side of taking ownership of these services from our Sweden team: shape the plan, mentor engineers, and be the person we trust with critical payment and financial flows.

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. 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.

We are a growing engineering team in Bangalore working closely with colleagues in Sweden, who built much of the platform.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

• Delivers complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) (design, implementation, testing, delivery and operations), based on definitions from more senior roles.
• Advises immediate management on project-level issues
• Guides junior engineers
• Operates with little day-to-day supervision, making technical decisions based on knowledge of internal conventions and industry best practices
• Applies knowledge of technical best practices in making decisions

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications

Your way to impact

• Set the technical direction for services spanning checkout, commerce, identity and money movement.
• Reduce operational and financial risk in payment, settlement and payout flows through better design, automation and observability.
• Leads the Zettle-to-PayPal convergence work on the backend, including the move of legacy merchants onto PayPal One Identity and the integration with PayPal core payments through the TAP API.
• Grow the team: mentor engineers, review designs, and make knowledge transfer from Sweden stick.

Your day to day

• Lead design and delivery of larger changes such as new payment flows, integrations & migrations, writing clear design documents and decision records.
• Act as incident commander for your domain; run post-incident reviews and drive the fixes.
• Own SLOs, alerting and capacity for your services; work with SRE and PayPal platform teams.
• Review code and designs for the team, and coach engineers at CL5 and below.
• Partnerwith product, Finance, security and compliance on payments, settlement, payouts and reconciliation.
• Run knowledge-transfer sessions with Sweden andensureeverycritical