Senior Software Engineer

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. What you need to know about the role - 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 - You will be part of PayPal Commerce Platform Team. You will be responsible for analysis, design, coding and building web platforms. You 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. You will be developing multiple tiered web applications based on modern technologies.

What do you need to bring

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.

Passionate about mentoring team members and staying up-to-date on the latest technologies and platforms.

Prior experience in monitoring large scale distributed systems. Demonstrated knowledge of automation for most of the manual tasks around SDLC with techniques such as packaging with Docker, ensuring a reliable CI/CD Should be able to isolate errors by trouble-shooting the application stack from application to framework to underlying infrastructure dependencies and network.

Hands-on knowledge of OOP/OOD/Functional languages along with strong understanding of concurrency, parallelism, networking, with profound data structure & algorithms.

Experience developing solutions for service monitoring, automated remediation, measuring availability and reliability, performance, analytics, network.

Ability to reduce tech debt and have a plan to remove them from the system.

Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision in a team to define, design, implement, test, release rollout, and support software applications for PayPal.

Work with business units to crystallize business needs into product features.

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

Educational Qualifications

Bachelor's in Computer Science or Master's in Computer Science degree or related field from an accredited college or university.

Highly competent hands-on experience in the following:

Enterprise architecture/software design/implementation, particularly large-scale web-based systems. (J2EE)

Java programming in Linux/Unix environment

OO-based analysis and design

SOA / Web Services

MVC frameworks such as Spring along with Sprint boot

Software design and development methodologies, including Agile methods

Source Control (GIT experience is an advantage)

Unit testing frameworks such as JUnit, Google Test

Database design and optimization. (Oracle/MySQL)

Jenkins/Hudson, Maven/Ant, RESTs experiences

PayPal is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

Actual Compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to work location, and relevant skills and experience.

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is

$60,900 to $155,400