Software Engineer Intern

PayPal is hiring Software Engineer Interns through its University Recruiting team to build high-traffic, scalable software on the frontend, backend, or both. Interns will work closely with design, product, and business colleagues as core team members to design, code, test, and release software.

What you'll do

• Build high-traffic, scalable software on the front end, the back end, or both
• Perform front-end work on web apps built with React and Node
• Perform back-end work on services that use Java, SQL and REST
• Work closely with design, product and business colleagues from other teams
• Estimate effort, design and code changes, test them, and release them to production
• Help triage live issues
• Focus on areas such as development, search, platform, testing, quality, big data, front end and back end

What they ask for

• Graduating in 2028 with a Bachelor's in Computer Science or a related field
• Hands-on experience building, breaking and rebuilding software applications
• Working knowledge of web basics: HTTP, HTML/DOM, JavaScript, CSS and AJAX
• Familiarity with at least one of Node.js, Java, C++ or Python
• Understanding of web services, SOA and REST APIs

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Technical

1. Explain the lifecycle of an HTTP request from a browser to a REST API backend.
2. How do you handle state management in React applications?
3. What is the difference between SQL and NoSQL databases when designing a scalable service?

Scenario

1. What would you do if a production service you deployed experienced high latency?
2. How would you approach debugging a bug reported only in specific browsers?

HR

1. Tell me about a challenging technical project you worked on and how you overcame obstacles.
2. Why do you want to intern at PayPal as a software engineer?

About PayPal

1. How does PayPal handle global payment transactions securely at scale?

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