Tech Lead

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 325 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.
As we continue on our quest to democratise financial services, we are on the lookout for an inspiring Developer to become Tech Lead role of our Product Library Team which belongs to our Sell With Insights Area.
In this role, you will be partnering with a talented cross-functional Team working on a functionality enabling Merchants across the World to save time and grow their profits by providing them with the fastest and most intuitive product management tool for their businesses.
To carry out this mission, we rely on dedicated and bright people who naturally embrace the opportunity to openly discuss and challenge each other on the best way forward. If this intro already sounds interesting to you, the best is yet to come so, please, scroll down and read on!


Go where people speak your language
At iZettle, we all actively contribute in building the best one-stop-shop for small businesses. While we take pride in how far we've come, we have no intention of sticking to known patterns or old truths as we think that breaking the status quo is key when it comes to innovation.
Part of our PoS Alliance, the core mission of the Product Library Team consists in making sure that it's nothing but easy and swift to find products, add them to the shopping cart and repeat.
As it's crucial for our Merchants to make decision based on accurate insights about their business, we offer them the solutions they need to stay up to date on what they sell, when, and where. That's, in a nutshell, why we consider the Product Library as a core enabler for their success and aim to keep innovating in this area.
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Tech Lead in the Product Library Team
As a Tech Lead in our Product Library Team, you will have the end-to-end ownership of our tech stack. This means that you will work closely with everyone on the Team as well as other Tech Leads and stakeholders to keep the technical direction aligned with the roadmap and overall agenda of the Architectural vision for iZettle's PoS.
Besides the above, an important aspect of this role will consist in acting as a Mentor and a Partner for all Team Members and Stakeholders to turn ideas into efficient solutions while still taking part in hands-on programming to stay close to the code and the systems.
A glimpse of what you would get here
At iZettle, we all believe in using the best tools for the task and that's why we continuously review our toolkit, architecture and ways of working. Today we work with Java 15, Kotlin, Dropwizard, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Docker, Terraform, and everything is hosted on Amazon Web Services. In Product Library, the stack includes several layers such as iOS, Android, Web and Backend.


Should you accept it, your mission is to:
Lead the Architecture of the tech stack by bouncing ideas and working closely with your colleagues inside as well as outside the Team;
Take an active part in system design and support and mentor other Developers in discussions and decision making;
Design, implement and maintain features together with the Team;
Ensure a high level of quality, usability and maintainability of the (reusable) components and code;
Experiment and learn about design, technology and processes.



The skills to succeed
A proven experience in Backend Development with Java 8+ and both NoSQL and SQL databases (Cassandra and PostgreSQL);
Expertise in distributed architecture and Data/APIs modelling as well as designing for scalability and flexibility;
A background in designing and maintaining Libraries/APIs used by others;
Great communication and collaboration skills combined with a solid experience working in a diverse and Agile environment.



A few traits to exceed
We believe that you are a great Teammate known for your inner ability to take and solve technical challenges for a common purpose. Grounded and humble, you naturally share your knowledge, experience and opinions without ever losing sight of the importance for everyone to have a chance to contribute to the team's success. Lastly, you make it fun.


Earn extra points if you are...
Interested in broadening your technical expertise beyond the backend domain;
Keeping up-to-date with the latest evolutions in Tech;
Familiar with Kotlin;
Experienced in Pair/Mob programming.



Bring your talent to our attention!
If you also believe in financial inclusion, let's take things further! We’d love to hear from you so go on, hit apply and/or let's talk!