Software Engineer

What you need to know about the role We are looking for a strong Java Engineer to join us in changing the future of payments and furthering its mission to build the Web’s most convenient, secure, cost-effective payment solution. Your way to impact As a Software Engineer, you will help lead projects with other engineers, architects, managers, and Product Management, QA, and Operations teams to design and develop innovative processes and create solutions that meet business requirements.

Your day-to-day

• Design, and implement complex, multi-tier distributed software applications, document and test systems, modify as appropriate.
• Lead projects with other engineers, architects, managers, and Product Management, QA, and Operations teams to design and develop innovative processes and create solutions that meet business requirements.
• Be a technical leader within your team and within PayPal in general.
• Provide technical and project leadership and mentoring.
• Be a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional agile team
• Build new APIs to enhance the portfolio of PayPal’s one of the most popular service.
• Build performance sensitive systems that serve tens of millions of requests each day.
• Build and take operational responsibility of Java services that serve millions of users.
• Be an active voice in architectural decisions for PayPal’s core payments system.
•Build robust testing scripts/systems to break our APIs and eventually fix them.
•Lead engineering efforts, plan implementations, and rollout system changes. Participate in release management and on-call duties, review recommendations for project or production issues and diagnostics.

What do you need to bring

• Strong Java/J2EE skills required.
• Demonstrable programming abilities in Java and other languages like Python, HTML, C++.
• Understanding of algorithmic techniques, design patterns and best practices.
• Knowledge/experience with web services (REST / SOAP) and ORM (Hibernate).
• Knowledge/experience with Spring MVC.
• Curiosity about how things work and the behavior of finding the answers. Flexible and adaptable the changing circumstances, tenacious.
• Knowledge/experience with Unix. Knowledge/experience with relational databases, NoSQL databases. Knowledge/experience with applying Big O Notation to algorithms.
• Knowledge/experience with GitHub. Knowledge/experience with Service Oriented Architecture.
• Basic Quals: 6+ years and at least a BSE (or equivalent).