Senior Software Engineer

Company: Venmo
Location: Austin
Posted on: February 17, 2025

Job Description:

Job Title: Staff Software Engineer - Web SDKLocation: Chicago, Illinois, United States of America and Austin, Texas, United States of AmericaJob DescriptionThe CompanyPayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person.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.What you'll be doing:

• 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.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.How we work:
    • Communication is key to our process, and we don't want to hinder it with walls. We work directly with other teams.
    • Engineers build, test, release and monitor their own code.
    • We pair program often. We believe that we do our best work when we work and collaborate together.
    • We default to async communication and call for meetings when necessary.
    • We hold daily stand-ups and have regular retrospectives to discuss things that are going well and opportunities for improvements.
    • We value unique perspectives brought by diverse backgrounds and experiences.Types of projects we work on:
      • We do a lot of open-source development as our SDKs are in public GitHub.
      • We build and support PayPal's SDKs, which are the primary way for a merchant to accept payments on their websites and mobile apps.
      • We are launching new and interesting ways to pay through our SDKs.
      • We create easy-to-use developer tools that supplement our SDKs and Integrations.
      • We are focused on improving the developer experience by engaging with the external developer community, creating tutorials, blogs, and speaking at conferences.Our Benefits:At PayPal, we're committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. We offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life, including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance, and more.Commitment to Diversity and InclusionPayPal 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.We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.
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