Back-End Developer

Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 305 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom, enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.

Job Description Summary:
In 2018, iZettle became part of the PayPal family. iZettle is on a mission to help small businesses succeed in a world of giants. Tens of millions of small businesses worldwide are still being underserved by the traditional players. By giving small businesses the tools to get paid, sell smarter and grow, we’re empowering them to reach their full potential. Together with PayPal, we can reach 24 million merchants across the world with more of the affordable tools they need to thrive. Join us in putting an end to the ordinary way the world defines financial freedom.
We are seeking an experienced Back-End Developer to join our MoneyTech Team in Stockholm. At MoneyTech, our core mission consists in building the Financial Platform that closes the gap between our Product and our Finance teams. This way, we enable our product to grow freely and our Finance team to keep the pace. As a Back-End Developer here, you will be given the opportunity to actively contribute to all aspects of the backend in addition to getting involved in all facets of Software engineering including infrastructure, data, application, deployment, monitoring, architecture, code reviews, pair / mob programming, and more.


A glimpse of what you would get here:
In our Team, failing to embrace a learning and knowledge sharing spirit is not an option. At MoneyTech, we co-own everything we do. We co-own our successes as well as our setbacks and make sure to learn and grow together. In our systems we have a zero fault tolerance while handling millions of events per day. In this context, scalability and monitoring are crucial, testing is as important as production code itself, and we write code for the developers that will come next instead of simply writing code that works. With that in mind, we believe in using the best tools for the task. We continuously review our toolkit, architecture and ways of working, and we’re open to new tools and frameworks as long as they can help the cause. Today we work with Java 14, Dropwizard, Wildfly, Docker, Terraform, PostgreSQL. Everything is hosted on Amazon Web Services.


The skills and abilities you need to succeed:
To succeed, we believe that you would greatly benefit from having a proven experience with:
Building distributed systems;
Working with continuously delivered systems;
Programming in Java 8+
SQL and data modelling;
Pair/Mob programming.



The key traits you will need to exceed:
You are a true team player known for being reliable, curious and bold, and who constantly thinks about the next developer(s) while coding;
You gladly share your knowledge, experience and opinions while understanding and respecting that the last word comes from the team;
You make it fun and wouldn't mind playing Dominion after lunch.



Earn extra points if you are versed in:
AWS platform;
Unix Linux OS;
Accounting (principles, lingo);
FinTech or/and Financial services.



Small minds never helped small businesses.
Since 2010, iZettle has been on a mission to help small businesses succeed in a world of giants. By offering them innovative tools and solutions required to get paid, sell smarter and grow, we are empowering business owners to reach their full potential. While we take pride in how far we have come, we have no intention of sticking to known patterns or old truths. In 2018, we joined forces with PayPal to continue on our quest to democratise financial services and support millions of merchants across the globe with more of what they need to thrive. Do you also believe in financial inclusion?


Sounds like you? Bring your talent to our attention. If you feel ready to take things further, we’d love to hear from you: Go on, hit apply and let's talk!




We're a purpose-driven company whose beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We hold ourselves to our One Team Behaviors which demand that we hold the highest ethical standards, to empower an open and diverse workplace, and strive to treat everyone who is touched by our business with dignity and respect. Our employees challenge the status quo, ask questions, and find solutions. We want to break down barriers to financial empowerment. Join us as we change the way the world defines financial freedom.


PayPal 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, PayPal 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 paypalglobaltalentacquisition@paypal.com.