Job highlights

- 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience. .
- Minimum Qualifications
- 4 to7 years of software engineering experience,with deep Java expertise and a record of owning production services. . .

Job Summary What you need to know about the role

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will own the design and reliability of Java services across checkout, commerce, identity and money movement for PayPal POS. You will lead the technical side of taking ownership of these services from our Sweden team: shape the plan, mentor engineers, and be the person we trust with critical payment and financial flows.

Meet our team

Zettle SMB Direct is the part of PayPal that builds the native point-of-sale experience for small and medium-sized businesses: the PayPal POS app (formerly Zettle Go) and the Zettle Terminal. Merchants use it to take card and tap payments, run checkout, manage their product library and inventory, issue receipts, handle refunds and invoices, and see what they earned.

We are a growing engineering team in Bangalore working closely with colleagues in Sweden, who built much of the platform.

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.

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-PayPal convergence work on the backend, including the move of legacy merchants onto PayPal One Identity and the integration with PayPal 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 transparent 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 PayPal 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.
- Strong 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: PayPal

Travel Percent: 0

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