Back-End Software Engineer Intern

At PayPal, we're literally reinventing how the world pays and gets paid. We understand that it's about people. We connect individuals to let them shop, get paid, donate and send money using today's technology with the confidence that comes from the security and control PayPal enables. Are you ready to help us change the world? The world's leading payments company, PayPal, brings together a family of brands that are revolutionizing the way people move money. At PayPal you will be immersed in an amazing community with a vibrant culture that thrives on innovation, collaboration, inclusion and wellness. Software Engineer Interns at PayPal develop innovative solutions and high-quality products that touch millions of people every day. Our engineers solve some of the most complex technical problems in the world of connected payments across multiple business units, (including PayPal, Braintree, Venmo, Paydiant). We are looking for the highest levels of technical talent and programming skills, as well as a keen desire to deeply understand our products and services to push our technology forward with respect to functionality, performance, reliability, and scalability. As a Back-End Software Engineer Intern, you will work alongside the best and the brightest engineering talent in the industry. As a core participant of your team, you'll estimate engineering efforts, design your changes, implement, and test your changes, push to live, and triage production issues. You need to be dynamic, collaborative, and curious as we build new experiences, improve existing products, and develop distributed systems powering the world's largest e-commerce and payments websites at a scale only a few companies can match. Key Responsibilities: * Code high-volume and scalable software. This may include creating back-end services using Java, SQL, ReST. * Partner closely with cross functional teams which may include front-end developers, design, product and other business units. * Write clean, scalable, and maintainable code in languages such as Python, Java, or Node.js. * Develop and maintain databases, ensuring data integrity and performance optimization. * Participate in code reviews and contribute to the improvement of internal coding standards and best practices. * Assist in troubleshooting, debugging, and optimizing performance of back-end services.

PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.