Fullstack Software Engineer

Description At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives. Job Description Summary: What you need to know about the role: We are looking for a strong Full Stack Software Engineer to join us in changing the future of payments. . Meet our team: Software engineers at PayPal develop innovative solutions and high-quality products that touch millions of people every day around the globe. Our engineers solve some of the most complex technical problems in the world of connected payments across all business units, including PayPal, Braintree, Venmo, and others. We are looking for the highest levels of technical talent and programming skills, as well as a keen desire to deeply understand our products and services to push our technology forward with respect to functionality, performance, reliability, and scalability.

Job Description:

Your way to impact:

• You know how to write highly scalable and distributed Java services
• You drive technical projects and take pride in building systems that are used by millions of users every day.
• You have experience in developing mid-tier services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
• You have worked on traditional and non-traditional SORs from Oracle to Couchbase and Cassandra
• You think Agile is the way to go for faster development until something better comes along.
• You call Linux and Vim as your best buddies.
• You have great communication skills.
• You think POC (proof of concept) is the faster way to prove a point.
• You are passionate about PayPal and its mission to “build the Web’s most convenient, secure, cost-effective payment solution.”

Your day to day:

• Design, and implement complex, multi-tier distributed software applications, document and test systems, modify as appropriate.
• Lead projects with other engineers, architects, managers, and Product Management, QA, and Operations teams to design and develop innovative processes and create solutions that meet business requirements.
• Provide technical and project leadership and mentoring.
• Be a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional agile team
• Build new APIs to enhance the portfolio of PayPal’s most popular service.
• Build performance sensitive systems that serve tens of millions of requests each day.
• Build and take operational responsibility of Java services that serve millions of users
• Be an active voice in architectural decisions for PayPal’s core payments system
• Be a master of your own destiny errr code. Build robust testing scripts/systems to break our APIs and eventually fix them
• Lead engineering efforts, plan implementations, and rollout system changes. Participate in release management and on-call duties, review recommendations for project or production issues and diagnostics

What do you need to bring-

• 5+ years of strong Java/J2EE skills required 
• Demonstrable programming abilities in Java and other languages like Python, XML, HTML, C++.
• Understanding of algorithmic techniques, design patterns and best practices.
• 5+ years of Knowledge/experience with web services (REST / SOAP) and ORM (Hibernate)
• Knowledge/experience with Spring MVC
• Curiosity about how things work and the behavior of finding the answers. Flexible and adapting the changing circumstances, tenacious.
• Knowledge/experience with Unix, relational databases, NoSQL database and experience applying Big O Notation to algorithms.
• Knowledge/experience with GitHub. Knowledge/experience with Service Oriented Architectures.
• Bachelors Degree preferred

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