Back End Developer

Job Description

🚨Strictly a W2 contract role.

🚨Candidates in the US and eligible to work for any employer can apply.

🚨H1B transfers are not being considered for this role.

🚨Experience: 6+ years with at least 3 years in the US.

The Engineering team is seeking to reinvent the way we pay online. Our team is responsible for enabling merchants around the world to accept payments within their mobile apps and websites. We always keep developers and their needs at the top of our mind and strive to provide the best-in-class developer experience.

We are looking for highly talented and self-driven engineers to join our team! In this role, you will be developing and enabling new payment methods and features for Server SDKs. You will play a pivotal role in designing and building the next generation of developer experience. You will be responsible for building and delivering features for Server SDKs, maintaining and contributing to open source, and evangelizing and engaging with external developers. We’re looking for someone who is eager to learn and able to master many technologies and has a strong focus on empathizing and understanding what developers need.

What you need to bring:

* Experience building web applications and services using Java.
* Willingness to work in a variety of languages (Ruby, Python, PHP, etc…)
* Experience in developer-facing products (e.g. SDKs, REST APIs, GraphQL) or products that enable third-party application development are great to have but not required.
* Excited about our team’s focus on open source and improving developer experiences.
* Experience with or interest in working with a team of talented engineers
* Keep up to date on industry trends and technologies and apply them to our products.

Types of projects we work on:

* We do a lot of open-source development as our SDKs are in public GitHub. We also contribute to other open-source projects.
* We build and support SDKs, which are the primary way for a merchant to accept payments on their websites and mobile apps.
* We are launching new and interesting ways to pay through our SDKs.
* We create easy-to-use developer tools that supplement our SDKs and Integrations.
* We are focused on improving the developer experience by engaging with the external developer community, creating tutorials, blogs, and speaking at conferences.
* Open dev days: every week we spend a day working on projects that interest us and help us expand our skills and knowledge.

Your day to day:

* Building and maintaining Server SDKs
* Working with stakeholders to create simple, robust Server SDKs that enables all.
* Partnering closely with cross functional partners, in design and product.
* Providing feedback on code and contributing to architecture discussions.
* Engaging with internal and external developers to better understand developer pain points and ways to improve the developer experience.