Senior Software Engineer

What you need to know about the role: The role is for an experienced software engineer working on building futuristic and delightful payment platform features and experiences for PayPal's diverse customer base across the globe. The role will involve working with business teams, product teams, architects and engineers located across our global offices. We are looking for a Java Developer with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications. Meet our team: You will be part of Risks and Disputes Engineering team helping us develop automated disputes management solution. You will code and engineer disputes workflow, APIs and get to work with several key components of this automated platform.

Your way to impact:

Your role will help customers have good dispute creation experience. Also reduce losses for the parties and increasing the win rates

Your Day to Day:

• Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance

• Contributing in all phases of the software development lifecycle

• Writing well designed, testable, efficient code

• Interact with other teams across the system software stack to clearly communicate and express your requirements and design

What you need to bring:

• 5+ years of experience developing software, primarily with Java/J2EE technologies

• Deep understanding of and extensive experience applying advanced object-oriented design and development principles

• Perform high-quality software analysis, design, development, testing and maintenance for the PayPal core technology platform

• Solid CS fundamentals is a must. (Data structures, Algorithms, OS, Databases).

• Technologically savvy with excellent communication and technical skills.

• Expert-level knowledge on RESTful APIs & Fundamentals of Web.

• Very strong analytical and problem solving skills

• Can-do attitude while solving difficult problems spanning across multiple teams

• Focus on automation, and test-driven development

• Ability to work with teams in remote locations to complete assigned tasks.

• Ability to create test plans, test cases and track resolution of software defects.

• Able to evangelize innovations, through prototyping or other means and typically finds solutions to the most challenging framework level bugs and issues.

• Passionate about developing frameworks, reusable code, wants to make a difference.

• Self-motivated and fully committed dynamic individual with ability to adapt and adjust to fast-paced environment

• Experience with Source-code control systems.

• Experience developing data-driven applications using an industry standard RDBMS (Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, etc.), including strong data architecture and SQL development skills

• Experience with unit testing (preferably Google Test) and tools

• Experience using industry standard software development tools (IDE / Version Control / Continuous Integration)

• Experience with Agile Software Development Experience with load and performance testing best practices.

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

• Experience in Unix based development environment (Unix, Shell, Perl, Python) is a plus

• Expertise in online payments and related domains is a plus