Senior Software Engineer

What you need to know about the role: As a Software Engineer – 3, in PayPal’s Developer Experience organization, you will be responsible for working with a team of engineers in design, development, test, and deployment of a range of products. You will have to understand the needs of our developers, process, identify opportunities and improve our eco system to drive efficiency across entire organization from code to release.Above all, PayPal offers a collaborative culture that fosters innovation, entrepreneurship, continuous learning, and growth. Meet the team: As part of Developer Productivity Engineering ( DPE ) , our mission is to reduce the cycle time of software delivery and enabling development teams to quickly take their code changes to production with highest quality which can be done by providing a Console Experience Platform for PayPal employees, be they Developers, Data Scientists, Content Designers etc. PayPal platform teams build and provide web or CLI experiences on an experience platform that provides them standard pattens, many out of the box capabilities with a paradigm shifting model, that enables rapid prototyping and development. Come join us as we enhance and support this brand new platform at PayPal and open-source the innovative solution we have built

Your day to day:

• Work within a team of highly talented engineers, product and architect to design and develop highly scalable systems.
• Spends most of the time coding and efficiently produces exemplary and thoroughly tested code for most challenging features.
• Being involved in design meetings to propose, discuss and refine new features and functionality.
• Write tests for the existing and newly created code to maintain compatibility.
• Maintain and enhance the existing architectural documentations and create the new one as needed. Participate in code and design reviews.
• Provide suggestions for continuous improvements as necessary.
• Solid communication skills & proven team player.

Your way to impact:

• Bachelor’s / Masters or Equivalent in Computer Science with 5 - 8 years of experience in the software development.
• Analyses and improve stability, efficiency, and scalability of the platform.
• Solid understanding of algorithms and data structures, knowledge of object oriented design, Design Patterns and multi-threaded programming.
• Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and analytical skills.
• ​ Prototype ideas quickly using cutting edge technologies.

What do you need to bring: 

• Hands on Java Programming Expertise with specific focus on large scale distributed systems.
• Hands on application frameworks (e.g. React, Node.js)
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, XML, jQuery)
• Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL), web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design
• Experience with messaging platforms such as Kafka/RabbitMQ (or any message broker)
• Knowledge or Work experience in any Functional Programming is a big plus. Experience with front end design.
• Experience with report generation.
• Experience with using testing frameworks such as Selenium and Junit/TestNG.
• Ability to determine impact of architectural solutions and come up with Recommendations.
• Ability to adapt to new development environments, changing business requirements and learning new systems highly desired.
• Experience with the Agile development process, including running a scrum team.
• Effective Team player with ability to drive cross-team solutions that have complex dependencies and requirements in a fast-paced environment.