Senior Software Engineer

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: At PayPal, we continually evolve the business by promoting a culture where solutions from the Engineering team help transform our business through customer-focused incentives, innovative design, and creative excellence. We are a purpose-driven company, and our beliefs are the foundation of how we conduct business every day. We are guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. We are searching for software engineers to join our Consumer Engineering Team which is responsible for developing all consumer-facing technologies at PayPal. You will be collaborating with functional teams and influencing product direction. 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.

Way to impact:
At PayPal, we continually evolve the business by promoting a culture where solutions from the Engineering team help transform our business through customer-focused incentives, innovative design, and creative excellence. We are a purpose-driven company, and our beliefs are the foundation of how we conduct business every day. We are guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. We are searching for software engineers to join our Consumer Engineering Team which is responsible for developing all consumer-facing technologies at PayPal. You will be collaborating with functional teams and influencing product direction.

Your day to day:
In this role, the individual will be part of the engineering team in Privacy Organization and will be responsible for

• Developing across the backend technologies – Availability, Persistence, Services, Platform,
• Performances and Scalability.
• Participating and collaborating with Product Owner/ Cross functional teams in the organization to understand the business requirements and to deliver solutions that can scale.
• Designing and implementing Software that is simple, bug-free, intuitive and easy to use with platform development mindset to solve privacy platform problems.
• Proactively anticipating problems and keeping the team and management informed in a timely manner.

What do you need to bring: 

• 6+ 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 development skills
• Deep understanding of advanced object-oriented design and development principles.
• Good 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 using industry standard software development tools (IDE / Version Control / Continuous Integration)
• 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.
• We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.