Description

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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

Minimum Qualifications:

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

Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:

Your way to impact

- Set the technical direction for services spanning checkout, commerce, identity and money movement.
- Reduce operational and financial risk in payment, settlement and payout flows through better design, automation and observability.
- Lead the Zettle-to-Pay Pal convergence work on the backend, including the move of legacy merchants onto Pay Pal One Identity and the integration with Pay Pal core payments through the TAP API.
- Grow the team: mentor engineers, review designs, and make knowledge transfer from Sweden stick.

Your day to day

- Lead design and delivery of larger changes such as new payment flows, integrations and migrations, writing clear design documents and decision records.
- Act as incident commander for your domain; run post-incident reviews and drive the fixes.
- Own SLOs, alerting and capacity for your services; work with SRE and Pay Pal platform teams.
- Review code and designs for the team, and coach engineers at CL5 and below.
- Partner with product, Finance, security and compliance on payments, settlement, payouts and reconciliation.
- Run knowledge-transfer sessions with Sweden and ensure every critical service has at least two people who can operate it.

What do you need to bring

- 4 to7 years of software engineering experience, with deep Java expertise and a record of owning production services.
- Proven design of distributed, event-driven systems on AWS,



including multi-region and failure-mode thinking.
- Solid knowledge of payments: authorization, capture, refunds, clearing, settlement, chargebacks and reconciliation. Experience with ledgers, payouts or bank connectivity is a strong plus.
- Working knowledge of PCI DSS scope, key management and secure access to sensitive data.
- Experience leading cross-team technical work, mentoring, and handling incidents as lead.
- Nice to have: GraphQL federation, OAuth and identity migrations, PSD2/SCA, EU payment schemes (such as Swish or Vipps).
- Clear written and spoken English, and comfort working across time zones with teammates in Bangalore and Sweden.
- A habit of writing things down: runbooks, design notes and decision records.
- Curiosity about payments and a sense of care for the merchants and customers who depend on the product.

Subsidiary:

Pay Pal

Travel Percent:

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For the majority of employees, Pay Pal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the Pay Pal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

Our Perks:

At Pay Pal,



we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset-you. That’s why we offer comprehensive, choice-based programs, to support all aspects of personal wellbeing—physical, emotional, and financial—delivering meaningful value where it matters most. We strive to create a flexible, balanced work culture with a holistic approach to benefits, including generous paid time off, healthcare coverage for you and your family, and resources to create financial security and support your mental health.

Who We Are:

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Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Pay Pal 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. In addition, Pay Pal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at .

Belonging at Pay Pal:

Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. Belonging at Pay Pal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at Pay Pal.

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We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don’t hesitate to apply.

📌 Sr Software Engineer, Back End (India)
🏢 Paypal
📍 India