Senior Backend Engineer (Java) - Scale Global Payments Platform

PayPal; Scottsdale (AZ); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Healthcare coverage

Paid time off

Equity

Job summary

PayPal is hiring for a Credit Platform backend engineer in Scottsdale, AZ, to build and scale PayPal’s credit products, including Buy Now Pay Later and merchant loans. You’ll design RESTful services and event-driven systems, collaborating with product, risk, and engineering teams.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of software engineering experience with Java, Spring Boot, and distributed systems, plus cloud familiarity (GCP/AWS). Hybrid work model supports in-person collaboration 3 days/week.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science/Engineering or related field.
• Experience designing microservices and RESTful APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve backend services powering PayPal’s credit products.
• Collaborate with product, risk, compliance, and engineering teams to translate requirements.
• Develop event-driven architecture using messaging systems like Kafka or Pulsar.
• Improve scalability, performance, and observability of global platforms.

Skills

Java

REST APIs

Spring Boot

Microservices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Kafka

Pulsar

Oracle/MySQL

DynamoDB

BigQuery

Job description

PayPal is hiring for a Credit Platform backend engineer in Scottsdale, AZ, to build and scale PayPal’s credit products, including Buy Now Pay Later and merchant loans. You’ll design RESTful services and event-driven systems, collaborating with product, risk, and engineering teams.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of software engineering experience with Java, Spring Boot, and distributed systems, plus cloud familiarity (GCP/AWS). Hybrid work model supports in-person collaboration 3 days/week.