PayPal

Senior Software Engineer, Ads Tech

London, England, United Kingdom

Senior

HYBRID

PayPal's Ads Tech team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in London to help build a next-generation advertising platform from the ground up. The role focuses on designing and developing cloud-native backend systems using functional programming, particularly Scala and its Typelevel ecosystem. You'll work on large-scale, high-performance systems that leverage PayPal's unique merchant and transaction data, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams. The position follows a hybrid work model with 3 days in the office.

Scala

Functional Programming

Typelevel Ecosystem

Cats Effect

ZIO

Cloud-Native Backend Systems

Microservices

Serverless Architectures

AWS

Google Cloud

Microsoft Azure

High-Availability Systems

Fault-Tolerant System Design

Disaster Recovery

Agile / Scrum

System Design

Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

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