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PayPal Backend Engineer 
Sweden, Stockholm 
373810932

19.11.2025

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

Expected Qualifications:

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

Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications

As a Backend Engineer, you’ll contribute to designing and delivering high-quality solutions while learning from and collaborating closely with your team. Your day-to-day will include:

  • Developing and implementing solutions with growing ownership and confidence.

  • Making thoughtful technical decisions and seeking feedback or guidance when needed.

  • Balancing trade-offs in system design, scalability, and performance.

  • Breaking down complex problems, asking the right questions, and helping to shape practical solutions.

  • Contributing to team discussions, sharing ideas, and helping improve how the team builds and delivers software.

What you need to succeed

  • Solid experience withRESTful APIdevelopmentandmicroservice architecture.

  • Hands-on work withJavaand familiarity with testing frameworks and practices.

  • Understanding of system design fundamentals and production-grade backend systems.

Get bonus points if you also have...

  • Experience withKotlinand deploying tocloud platforms(AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar).

  • Exposure tocontainerization (Docker)andInfrastructure as Code (Terraform).

  • Familiarity withmonitoring and logging toolssuch asGrafanaorDatadog.

  • Understanding or experience withevent-driven architectureor message-based systems.



Our Benefits:

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