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PayPal Senior Software Engineer- Ruby Rails 
France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 
171715761

20.03.2025

As a Senior Software Engineer for the Braintree Engineering Team, you'll play a pivotal role in enhancing and optimizing the merchant onboarding process. Your expertise will be instrumental in streamlining how new merchants integrate with Braintree’s payment platform, reducing time to market, and elevating the overall merchant experience.In this role, you’ll lead initiatives to build and maintain robust, production-grade systems, leveraging your deep technical skills to solve complex problems and drive improvements. You'll collaborate closely with fellow engineers and other stakeholders, guiding projects from inception through to deployment.Your leadership and technical acumen will support Braintree’s mission to deliver seamless and secure payment solutions. You'll also have opportunities to mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of continuous learning and innovation.

Job Description:

  • Design, and implement complex, multi-tier distributed software applications, document and test systems, modify as appropriate.

  • Be a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional agile team.

  • Build performance sensitive systems that serve tens of millions of requests each day.

  • Be an active voice in architectural decisions for PayPal’s core payments system.


Who you are:

  • You know how to write highly scalable and distributed Ruby on Rails services.

  • You drive technical projects and take pride in building systems that are used by millions of users every day.

  • You have experience in developing mid-tier services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA).

  • You have worked on traditional and non-traditional SORs from Oracle to Couchbase and Cassandra.

  • You think Agile is the way to go for faster development until something better comes along.

  • You call Linux and Vim as your best buddies.

  • You have great communication skills.

  • You think POC (proof of concept) is the faster way to prove a point.

  • You are passionate about PayPal and its mission to “build the Web’s most convenient, secure, cost-effective payment solution.


Requirements:

  • Strong Ruby on Rails knowledge

  • Solid programming abilities in Java and other languages such as Python, C++

  • Experience with Typescript, Rust and GraphQL

  • Strong understanding of algorithmic techniques, design patterns and best practices.

  • Curiosity about how things work and the behavior of finding the answers. Flexible and adapting the changing circumstances, tenacious.

  • Knowledge/experience withUnix. Knowledge/experience with relational databases, NoSQL databases.

  • Knowledge/experience withGitHub. Knowledge/experience with Service Oriented Architectures.


Basic Qualifications:

  • 4+ years and at least a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent).

Additional Job Description:

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 .

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