Senior Software Engineer

Fuelled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 392 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying, or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo, and Xoom enable consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies, and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies. Our solutions need to scale across millions of such interactions, integrating with various other APIs in real-time, and yet providing high availability to the business. To achieve this, we are always looking at advances in technology and science and tying those back to business needs.

Meet our team:

On the Merchant Reporting team, you will closely work with the various world-class data driven data ingestion, orchestration and generating millions of reports with high volume of data across PayPal by using the cutting-edge technologies and advanced data solution.
 

You will face the complex big data challenges or problems for fin-tech industry domain, turning big data into valuable business insights, on time delivery of reports with various cadences and meeting the merchant SLA. Understand the data deeply but are also able to be hands' on in the design & development of enterprise-level data solutions for huge amounts of data. As a software engineer in Merchant Reporting team you will be instrumental in building next generation platform and craft solutions capable of delivering millions of hits every day. Candidate should be able to thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy driving innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development. Candidate should be passionate about bringing great experiences to life and comfortable working with back-end tech stacks, development frameworks, and third-party libraries.

The person is also expected to be an able individual contributor, a lead, a mentor, and a peer. 

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop highly scalable and available applications for mission-critical systems
• Work with product management to design or simplify APIs
• Write clean, functional code for the front-end and back-end features.
• Design, develop and maintain client-side and server-side software components including Web, REST APIs, GraphQL Api, real-time systems and batches.
• Prototype ideas quickly using cutting edge technologies.
• Show pride of ownership and strive for excellence in everything you do.
• Provide technical solutions to meet business requirements
• Actively mentor and coach engineers on technology and engineering aspects
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of experience in software development designing and implementing scalable, fault tolerant components.
• 3+ years of work experience developing back-end systems in Java
• Experience on common stacks across back-end tech stacks
• Experience working on webservices/REST API, GraphQL, Event driven real-time systems and Batch components using Spring Framework, muti-threaded programming.
• Strong skill in data structure and algorithm
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery, deploying in containers like Dockers
• Experience with unit testing/functional automation testing and tools
• Proven experience delivering complex software projects and solutions effectively through Agile methodologies on a regular release cadence.
• Experience in the online payments or related domain is a plus
• Proficiency with at least one scripting language (Perl, Python, Unix Shell Script etc.)
• Solid understanding of data security & classification

Required soft skills

• Provide leadership to others, particularly junior engineers who work on the same team or related product features.
• Proven experience delivering complex software projects and solutions effectively through Agile methodologies on a regular release cadence
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong customer focus, ownership, urgency and drive.

Educational Qualifications

Bachelor’s and /or Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent.