Staff Software Engineer

What you need to know about role: 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. 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.

Your way to impact:

As an MTS 2, Software Engineer on the Merchant Reporting team, you will be responsible for the evolution of our merchant reporting experience platform building solution on various touchpoint failures, provide proactive orchestration of report delivery for millions of merchants. You will make key technology decisions providing solution in AWS, network infra, build & maintain large production grade systems, work with our customers to solve their day-to-day problems, and mentor and guide other engineers.

Your day to day

• 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

What you need to bring:

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

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.

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