PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering more than 416 million consumers and merchants around the world to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit paypal.com.
Michael Maze
This is PayPal
At PayPal we've spent more than twenty years building a world of expanded economic opportunity, leveraging cutting edge technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure. Our platform enables more than 416 million consumers and merchants around the world to thrive in the global economy.
Data Science in PayPal
As a data-driven financial services company, Data Science is at the core of nearly everything we do. Our machine learning practitioners drive large, meaningful improvements in product and experience for our customers and tackle sophisticated problems in domains as diverse as fraud detection, credit lending, marketing, sales, customer support, and more.
By making use of endless amounts of data we employ a wide variety of algorithms (NLP, DL, etc.) to impact this increasing portfolio of domains. Our applied Machine Learning efforts are augmented by the local engineering teams with whom we collaborate to productize our models to run at an enormous scale. In the third quarter of 2021 alone, we processed $310 billion of total payment volume.
Our Culture
Our Values
We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness.
- Inclusion - Respect and value uniqueness and diversity of thought regardless of background, level, or circumstance
- Innovation - Think differently, look end-to-end and practice creativity
- Collaboration - Work as a team, drive ownership and accountability, make decisions and get results
- Wellness - Care for and actively support each other’s well-being and create a super energizing workplace that brings out the best in our employees
Always Learning
PayPal has a thriving data science community where we share and consult about new projects, learn and dive into the latest papers in research, and encourage involvement in the external DS community in conferences and Meetups.
Benefits
We take care of our employees by providing generous health, wellness, and financial plans so they can feel secure about their own future while building the future of the world’s economy. From wellness days to four weeks of paid sabbatical, we believe work-life balance is crucial to make a real impact.
Join Us
We believe in individual ownership, independence, and responsible prioritization to make a real impact. If you love making an impact as much as we do, and work with the top data scientists in the industry, come join us.
From happy hours and fitness classes to special events, you’ll have a whole lot of fun on the way helping to democratize financial services.