Senior Software Engineer

What you need to know about the role: The Merchant Platform team is looking for talented, creative, and passionate Java backend engineers to create a new product. The role expects a high standard of engineering excellence and a deep understanding of building and maintaining scalable applications and services.

Your way to impact:

Merchant Engineering’s mission is to simplify commerce by providing a one-stop payment platform for all customer segments.

Your day-to-day:

• Design and implement complex, multi-tier distributed software applications, document, and test systems, and modify as appropriate.

• Own implementation of a module/application/product

• Develop efficient, elegant, clean code with no unnecessary complication or abstraction

• Deliver code in an agile team environment - you will operate in the bi-weekly scrum model

• Collaborate with other engineers, architects, and cross-vertical team

• Build new APIs to enhance the portfolio of PayPal’s one of the most popular services.

• Build and take operational responsibility for Java services that serve millions of users

• Identify any product/functionality gaps and collaborate with internal product and technology teams to define the necessary development to support solution delivery.

• Drive integration efforts and lead critical workstreams of strategic initiatives sponsored by senior executives.
   

What do you need to bring:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.

• 4+ years experience in Java backend development.

• Expert knowledge in Java Reactive programming, Spring framework, Spring boot

• Good understanding of web services and related standards like REST/JSON and gRPC

• Experience in Object-Oriented programming and concepts.

• Solid understanding of basic algorithms and design patterns.

• Unix-based development environment.

• Experience in interacting with engineering teams from multiple geo-locations

• Experience in both development and QA activities.

• Experiences in both relational and non-relational DB, like Oracle and CouchDB

• Experience in Junit and TestNG.

• Experience in Kubernetes.

• Exposure to Agile methodologies.

• Strong problem-solving skills.

• Financial or Payment industry experience is preferred.

• Proven track record in delivering highly available, scalable systems on time.

• Good communication skills, fluent in English.