Data Engineer • Data Platform

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 375 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.


In 2018, Zettle became part of the PayPal family. Zettle 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.Job Description:
As we continue our Quest to democratise financial services, Zettle's Platforms Alliance is on the lookout for a passionate Data Engineer to join our inspiring Data Platform Team.
In this role, you'll have the opportunity to co-tackle a wide range of challenges together with a crowd of talented People driven by a shared ambition to create hassle-free solutions helping small businesses succeed in a world of giants.
In this spirit, your day-to-day mission will essentially consist in providing the best platform to collect, enrich and expose data for our teams to make smarter and faster data-driven decisions. If the above already catches your fancy, scroll down, the best is yet to come!


Small minds never helped small businesses 
At #ZettlebyPaypal, everyone believes that it takes originality and an open mind to start a small business. That’s why, even if we take pride in how far we have come, we have no intention of sticking to known patterns or old truths.
To carry out our revolution and help business owners to thrive, we rely on dedicated Teams embracing the opportunity to openly discuss and challenge each other on the best way forward.
In other words, we co-elaborate, co-own our successes as well as our setbacks, and make sure to learn and grow together. Still with us? Just read on!


The skills to succeed
Broadly speaking, we are mainly programming in Java and Python while our tech stack also comprises Kotlin, Airflow, Spark, Beam, and BigQuery. Besides, everything is hosted on Google Cloud Platform and our infrastructure is defined in Terraform (we are using both continuous integration and deployment).
With that in mind, we think that the following skills and know-how would greatly help you to be successful in this role:
Strong software engineering fundamentals and backend development experience
Solid knowledge in an OOP language, preferably Java, Kotlin or Python
Experience with SQL and analytical databases such as BigQuery
Data processing frameworks such as Apache Beam
Airflow or other workflow management platforms
Working in cloud environments (GCP or AWS)



The traits to exceed
You are a true team player known for being reliable, curious and bold;
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 OpenRA because that’s what we actually do as a team



Sounds like you?
Great! Bring your talent to our attention and let's take things further! We’d love to hear from you so go on... Hit apply and/or let's talk!
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We are all for equality for all
Tattoo artists. Dog groomers. Cake bakers. Jewelry makers. You name them - at Zettle - we help them. And to do that well, we need our people to be as unique and diverse as they are. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and together we uphold PayPal’s One Team Behaviour, striving to be a place where everyone can benefit from equal access to professional development, bring their whole self to work and most of all, feel like they belong.