MTS 1, Software Engineer

What you need to know about the role- As a technical lead, you will collaborate with multiple stakeholders to translate requirements into clear functional specifications. You will architect & build solutions to problems and guide other developers to do the same. This position is an opportunity to have a high impact across many teams at PayPal and help us accomplish our goal of democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Join us in our mission by applying today. Meet our team: PayPal EDP-Database Platform Engineering team components enables other PayPal components to access all types databases. They provide multiplexing and improve availability of databases at PayPal.

Job Description:

Your way to impact:

• The ideal candidate is an individual with strong experience and awareness of the payments industry trends, with knowledge on design principles, database and building applications.
• We believe in ‘One Team Behaviours’ and Innovation, Collaboration, Inclusion and Wellness are major pillars for our success.

Your day to day :

• Work as full-time Senior Developer for the team.
• Ability to craft the long-term technology strategy or vision for the team.
• Ability to represent the team to the PayPal organisation. Mentor juniors in the team and help them to sharpen their technical finesse.
• 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 product owners to crystallize consumer needs into product features.
• Work with engineering managers, engineers to develop innovative solutions that meet market needs w.r.t functionality, performance, reliability, realistic implementations schedules, and adherence to development goals and principles.
• Develop new team capabilities to ensure continued competence and relevance in supporting the software development needs of PayPal's business.
• Define and devise processes, tools, and methodologies to achieve excellence in software development, testing, and deployment.
   

What do you need to bring- :

• BE in Computer Science or Engineering and 7+ years related industry experience
• Highly analytical, innovative, and able to think strategically and to develop comprehensive detailed specifications.
• Excellent verbal and writing skills; ability to produce clear, concise communications and documentation.
• Highly effective at working in cross-functional groups and getting results in matrix organisations.
• Excellent time management skills and ability to work on concurrent assignments with different priorities

   

Highly competent hands-on experience in the following:

• Enterprise architecture/software design/implementation
• Database design and optimisation. (Oracle/MySQL)
• Java programming in Linux/Unix environment
• Software design and development methodologies, including Agile methods
• Source Control (GIT experience is an advantage)
• Unit testing frameworks such as JUnit, Google Test
• Jenkins/Hudson, Maven/Ant, RESTs experiences
• [Good to have] Experience Python, Golang