Software Engineer 2

You will be responsible for developing the large scale distributed application platform architected for scale, which is capable of supporting multiple tenants seamlessly, and integrates with various payment processors and intermediaries, outside of PayPal, using industry standard Payment Integrations Methods. The focus would be on developing large scale enterprise platform, designed for scalability, availability and high resiliency, that can fail fast and auto recover, enabling highest level of STP -Straight Through Processing. You will be part of the Payments Platform Team, focusing on the Settlement platform. Settlement platform is the one of the largest platforms with that is responsible of settling funds between PayPal and users funding instruments. You will work alongside the brightest engineering talent, solving interesting problems on scalability using the latest technologies on prem and cloud.

Your way to impact

Looking for technically strong candidate, with hands on development experience in JAVA, who is self-motivated, team player, with curiosity to learn and grow, exhibiting strong resolve to challenge the status quo, and strive for excellence in everything they do, with good professional and academic track record to be part of a team that deals with most innovative payments processing team that deals transactions at scale.

Your day to day

In your day to day role you will -

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

• Deliver quality solutions on schedule.

• Work with business partners to understand the requirements and develop elegant reusable solutions/code.

• Create / Review well-articulated, detailed low level design documents.

• Present issues and solutions to audiences of varying sizes. Provide recognized technical and business leadership and are able to provide deep technical support across a range of functionality.

• Manage workload and other assignments efficiently while being able to resolve time-critical situations reliably and professionally.

• Participate in the development of tools, systems and processes aimed at improving product supportability or overall support productivity.

What do you need to bring-

• 3+ 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. Exposure to Spark, Distributed Databases, Cloud Technologies is a plus. Deep understanding of advanced object-oriented design and development principles.

• Basic level 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 in Unix based development environment is a plus

• Knowledge on scripting languages like Unix Shell, Perl, Python is a plus.

• Experience with unit testing using Junit.

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

• Strong debugging and problem resolution skills

• 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.