MTS1 Software Engineer

The Consumer Engineering team is looking for a highly talented, self-driven software engineer to take on the challenge of leading the Segmentation platform team. Our segmentation platform enables PayPal Marketing and Product teams with single source of the most recent and complete customer data to improve personalization, messaging and engagement across the different PayPal experiences. As a technical lead, you will collaborate with multiple stakeholders to translate business 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.

Job Responsibilities:

• 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 segmentation platform to the PayPal organization. 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 business units to crystallize business needs into product features.
• Work with engineering managers, engineers & QA 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.

Basic Qualifications:

• BE in Computer Science or Engineering and 6+ 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 organizations.
• 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, 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
• [Good to have] Experience developing Front-End applications with Javascript, Node.js.
• [Good to have] Experience with UI frameworks such as React, Angular etc.