Recharge is a pilot program designed to increase diversity in technology while also giving individuals who want to return to work an opportunity to expand their experience and network. It is a 3-5 months paid program, with 2 positions open in Chicago at Braintree as part of a larger initiative across PayPal brands. This program offers both part-time and full-time positions to help foster a smooth transition back into the workforce. Similar to an internship, those participating in the program will be considered for hire as employees at the conclusion of the program.

About Us:

Braintree builds products that make payments easier—so easy they fade into the background, making entirely new kinds of interactions possible. The Braintree full-stack payment platform lets companies build their own experiences and then scale their businesses around the globe.

We're known for our technology but we're also known for our support, with internal risk and underwriting, account management and technical support teams who ensure a frictionless payments experience.

Our technology fuels companies like Uber, GitHub, Airbnb, Dropbox, HotelTonight, and more.

Headquartered in Chicago, Braintree also has offices in San Francisco, New York, Sydney, and London, with employees stationed around the world.

Check out our office + team on The Muse: http://muse.cm/1wWa28H

About the role within the program:

At Braintree, we are hiring Engineers who have experience building software and web applications for either back-end systems or client-side functionality but who maybe took a break when life dictated so.

As an engineer within the recharge program, you’ll face interesting and challenging problems as we take our software to the next level of scale and sustainability and work within our existing product structure, helping to build Braintree.

Responsibilities:

• Develop software specific to any number of features/functions of our product

• Collaborate constantly in a pair programming environment

• Agile Agile Agile Software development.

• Work toward a product roadmap that allows our developers to go where their interests take them. Just because you start with work on one feature/function doesn’t mean you’ll be on that team forever. You go where it interests you and we seek to assist in your exploration.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of engineering with 2+ years out of the workplace.

• Solid programming foundation; expect to spend a significant amount of time writing code, it does not matter if this foundation was built not recently.

• Working knowledge of one or several object-oriented or functional programming languages. (none specific, we just want to know you’ve grasped and mastered a programming language at some point in your career.)

• 1+ years experience developing software.

Other things to know about us:

We’re polygots. We write most of our software in Ruby but don’t confine ourselves to using a single programming language. We use the best tool for whatever task is at hand. We pair program. We like object oriented programming. We test, obsessively. When we say we’re an agile software development environment, we mean it.  We’re pragmatic, not dogmatic, and we value our people.

Take a look at some of our blog posts to see some of the problems we face:

http://www.braintreepayments.com/inside-braintree/how-we-built-the-software-that-processes-billions-in-payments

Take a peek at some of the code we have on GitHub: https://github.com/braintree