Sr Software Engineer for Core Product

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Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 375 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom, enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.

 

 

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Job Description Summary:

Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 305 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom, enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies. 
 
Honey is a fast-growing company based in Los Angeles, and we’ve recently joined the PayPal family to help supercharge our mission of creating fairness and value for everyone. We’ve built a community of over 20 million online shoppers and use the collective insights of our members to power an online shopping platform that allows everyone to shop smarter, together. With that, we are excited to say we’re hiring! We are seeking seasoned Software Engineers to join our Los Angeles team to help us build and deliver excellent, user-first products via rapid iterations and peer review. 
 
We’re looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join Honey’s Core Product team. As a member of the team you will be responsible for the de facto engine behind the savings-generating machine of Honey (gold, transactions, deals & coupons). In a primarily backend service role, you will develop technologies relied upon by cross-functional teams, part of strategic initiatives. The role inherently comes with high expectations for design, architecture, delivery of robust, scalable, efficient and operationally healthy software. You will work in close collaboration with Product Management and be expected to provide technical considerations and participate in brainstorm exercises, evaluate feasibility, deliverability, maintainability of proposed projects.

 

Job Description:

About You: 

If you’re on the fence about whether you meet all of the requirements for this role, please apply! 

  • You write idiomatic JavaScript/Node.js; Golang, Java, Python, Scala.  

  • You use a modern version-control system for your source code repository (Git, Mercurial, GitHub, BitBucket) 

  • You lint all your code or know you should 

  • You know what parts of your code require tests and you write those tests 

  • You use strong, objective judgment in leveraging the right frameworks and technologies

  • You are versed in cloud computing systems (GCP, AWS, etc.) and SAAS concepts 

  • You build modern, resilient and operationally sane backend systems exemplifying industry standards (HTTP REST, GraphQL, Steam processing, Big Data) 

  • You leverage continuous integration systems to their full extend (CircleCI, Bamboo, Jenkins, TravisCI) 

  • You plan for, build, evolve and scrutinize monitoring and alerting for your production systems

  • You are willing and able to deploy, troubleshoot, and maintain your systems in production and staging environments 

  • You’ve architected with both SQL and NoSQL data stores; we use Big Table/HBase, Spark, Dataflow, Spanner, BigQuery, and Elasticsearch 

 

In this role, you’ll: 

  • Design, build and operate Honey’s engineering systems with a focus on performance and reliability 

  • Participate in new feature development for Honey’s engineers to interact with our backend data architecture 

  • Evaluate storage technologies and methodologies with an eye toward scalability and performance 

  • Architect, design, write, review, and test code in a collaborative environment with other software engineers. 

  • Leverage your peers as multipliers for your skills to create excellent products and services for Honey’s millions of users 

  • Help to design, implement, and maintain platform-level solutions used by other engineering teams and the larger Honey organization 

  • Work closely with a project manager for your mission team on product requirements and translating those requirements to technical solutions 

  • Deliver and maintain subset of internal dashboards or tools for administrative tasks of the team’s systems 

 

Bonus Points for: 

  • Experience with Google Cloud Platform, CircleCI, Git, Golang, Kubernetes, Docker, Java 

  • Experience with GraphQL, GraphQL Federation, REST APIs and supporting network protocols 

  • Experience with a distributed SQL platform like CockroachDB or Google Spanner 

  • Experience with Hadoop, MapReduce, or other “Big Data” systems 

  • Experience in React or similar web UI framework for the occasional internal dashboard task 

 

At Honey, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive company. We seek to create a culture where everyone can belong because we believe that people do their best work when they can show up every day as their authentic selves. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.  

We're a purpose-driven company whose beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We hold ourselves to our One Team Behaviors which demand that we hold the highest ethical standards, to empower an open and diverse workplace, and strive to treat everyone who is touched by our business with dignity and respect. Our employees challenge the status quo, ask questions, and find solutions. We want to break down barriers to financial empowerment. Join us as we change the way the world defines financial freedom. 
 
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 [email protected]

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