Lead Software Engineer - Java

What you need to know about the role- We’re looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join PayPal Commerce Platform (PPCP) Team. This is a primarily backend role and you will be sought as an expert of frameworks, advocate for best practices and cross-team influencer. Meet our team The candidate will be part of PayPal Commerce Platform Team. The candidate will be responsible for analysis, design, coding and building web platforms. The individual should be self-motivated, team-oriented, problem solver, possess creative problem-solving skills and have the ability to handle multiple projects at the same time. The candidate will be developing multiple tiered web applications based on modern technologies

Your way to impact :

• Develops efficient, elegant, clean, reusable code with no unnecessary complication or abstraction.
• Mentor other engineers and developers by providing technical and business-related guidance and resources;
• Deliver quality solutions on schedule.
• Create / Review well-articulated, detailed design documents.

In your day-to-day role you will be responsible for:

• Develops efficient, elegant, clean, reusable code with no unnecessary complication or abstraction.
• Mentor other engineers and developers by providing technical and business-related guidance and resources;
• Deliver quality solutions on schedule.
• Create / Review well-articulated, detailed design documents.
• Advises management and appropriate groups on support issues which impact customer satisfaction and provides recommendations for appropriate actions
• Presents issues and solutions to audiences of varying sizes. Provides recognized technical and business leadership and is able to provide deep technical support across a range of functionality.
• Manages workload and other assignments efficiently while being able to resolve time-critical situations reliably and professionally.
• Participates in the development of tools, systems and processes aimed at improving product supportability or overall support productivity.

What do you need to bring: 

• 9+ years of experience developing large scale applications JAVA, Spring Core and Spring Batch, with good hands-on exposure to SQL and NoSQL technologies, good understanding of relational and free form databases, including strong data architecture and SQL/PL-SQL development skills
• Hands On Experience in Node/React.
• Deep understanding of and extensive experience applying advanced object-oriented design and development principles.
• Expert level understanding of designing and developing data intensive applications and architecting them for scalability and availability.
• Developing high traffic backend services, with low latency and designing them for scale.
• Experience applying software design patterns, data structures, algorithms.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience collaborating with business users to define the key business requirements and translate them into process/technical solutions
• Experience in Unix based development environment is a plus
• Knowledge on scripting languages like Unix Shell, Perl, Python is a plus
• Experience in application performance fine tuning is a plus.
• Experience with unit testing using Junit and writing functional testing.
• Experience using industry standard software development tools (IDE / Version Control / Continuous Integration)
• Strong debugging and problem resolution skills
• Expertise in online payments and related domains is a plus
• Focuses on test driven development and automation.
• Believes in Agile development and are comfortable with SCRUM process.
• Refactor existing codebase and in understanding existing implementations to decide to refactor or rewrite.
• Identify Performance bottlenecks and use good coding patterns to avoid them 
• We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.