Software Engineer 3

PayPal Payments team is looking for an experienced Java Software Engineer. This position involves full-time hands-on development in a scrum team of 6-8 engineers. The person is expected to be highly competent technically and able to collaborate well with other engineers. This is exciting engineering work with a significant impact on delivering business goals.

Responsibilities

• Development and testing of high-quality product features spanning multiple product domains.
• Work with engineering managers, architects, engineers & QA to develop innovative solutions that meet market needs w.r.t functionality, performance, reliability, realistic implementations schedules and adherence to development goals and principles.
• Provide technical guidance and assistance to other software engineers.
• Identify areas of technical improvement and make detailed business cases for improvements or new areas of opportunities.
• Adhere to best of class coding and design standards.
• Ensure all deliverables adhere to the timelines, quality and performance
• Ability to work in a team as well as independently and deliver on aggressive goals individually as well as a team.

Requirements

• You have a Bachelor/Master degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics or related area.
• You have 4 to 8 years of hands-on development experience.
• You have extensively used Java, Junit, JMeter, Maven, Git and Sonar in development in the last three years.
• You have developed high-traffic front or backend services for a real customer-facing web site.
• You have worked in a scrum team for at least a year and practice agile methodologies faithfully.
• You have (designed and) implemented REST APIs, web services and SOA components.
• You have effectively used OO-design and design patterns in your work.
• You have developed code using SQL and NoSQL solutions.
• You have good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Must be detail-oriented and able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously with minimal supervision.
• Flexibility and willingness to learn new technologies and adapt quickly.
• You have coached junior engineers, advocated good coding practices, process adherence and continuous improvement in these areas.
• You have been in a project requiring you to effectively collaborate with remote teams across geographies and time zones.
• You have preferably worked in a payments or finance-related industry before.