Staff Software Engineer - Web SDK

at  Paypal

At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives.
Job Description Summary: The PayPal SDK Engineering team is seeking to reinvent the way we pay online. Our team is responsible for enabling merchants around the world to accept payments within their mobile apps and websites. We always keep developers and their needs at the top of our mind and strive to provide the best-in-class developer experience. We are looking for highly talented and self-driven engineers to join our team! In this role, you will be developing and enabling new payment methods and features for PayPal’s Web SDK. You will be responsible for building and delivering features for PayPal’s Web SDK, maintaining and contributing to open source, and evangelizing and engaging with external developers. We’re looking for someone who is eager to learn and able to master many technologies and has a strong focus on empathizing and understanding what developers need.
Job Description:

REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience building JavaScript and TypeScript applications.
• Experience in developer-facing products (e.g. SDKs, REST APIs, GraphQL) or products that enable third-party application development are great to have, but not required.
• Excited about our team’s focus on open source and improving developer experiences
• Experience with or interest in working with a team of talented engineers
• Keep up to date on industry trends and technologies and apply them to our products.

• Building PayPal’s Web SDK
• Working with stakeholders across PayPal to create simple, robust Web SDKs that enable all PayPal has to offer.
• Partnering closely with cross functional partners, like Venmo, in design and product
• Providing feedback on code and contributing to architecture discussions.
• Engaging with internal and external developers to better understand developer pain points and ways to improve the developer experience.