PayPal Staff Software Engineer - Frontend 

France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 

813034714

What do you need to know about the roleThis job acts as a project leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers, determining technical tasks, and improving existing structures and processes. It involves making technical decisions, collaborating with management to set standards, and representing the company to external partners.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system
• Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow
• Actions result in the achievement of customer, operational, program or service objectives
• Proactively improves existing structures & processes
• Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities (time, quality, complexity risk) to identify optimal solutions to problems
• Notices patterns and condenses repetition into densely meaningful generalized solutions
• Collaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor
• Trusted to represent PayPal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate a customer-centric mindset in your daily work.
• Ensure adherence to defined specifications and processes throughout implementation.
• Own the end-to-end quality of deliverables during all phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with PayPal’s cross-functional technology team to understand and refine technical designs.
• Engage with managers, leads, and peers to evaluate and develop implementation options.
• Adapt swiftly to a fast-paced environment and manage continuously changing business needs.

Technical Skills:

• 8 years of experience in Frontend Development, particularly with React, node.js and next.js
• Design, develop, and maintain backend applications using Ruby on Rails, and integrate them with frontend technologies including JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and others.
• Experience with web front-end technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, Webpack, and Bootstrap.
• Drive engineering excellence through CI/CD practices.
• Proactively identify and troubleshoot integration or technical issues.
• Write tests for existing and newly created code to maintain compatibility.

Personal Traits:

• Quick learner, unfazed by complex systems.
• Willing to take risks and thrive in an environment of continuous change.
• Experience in building the complete lifecycle of transaction processing, preferably within payments.
• Familiarity with refactoring existing codebases and understanding current implementations for refactoring or rewriting decisions.
• Participation in tech events, hackathons, contributions to open source, and active involvement in online tech forums is a plus.

Educational Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent +8 years of relevant experience / MS in Computer Science

Our Benefits:

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