Senior Software Engineer

At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to revolutionize commerce globally to make moving money, selling and shopping, personalized and secure. 

Job Description Summary:

What do you need to know about the role:

A person with hands-on experience in software development in core Java and microservices. An experience of 5 to 8 years is desired. The candidate should have good software system design and stakeholder management skills and should have the capability to handle projects independently.

Meet our team:

You will be part of the Payments Platform Team, focusing on the Core Payments Platform. The core Payments Platform is responsible for processing millions of payment transactions. You will work alongside the brightest engineering talent, solving interesting problems on scalability using the latest technologies on-prem and cloud.

Job Description:

Your way to impact

You will be responsible for working with a team of engineers in design, development, testing, and deployment of a range of products on web and mobile platforms.

A successful candidate will have an established background in developing a highly available, scalable, resilient, and distributed systems, with a strong technical ability, excellent project execution skills, excellent communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.

Your day to day

• Work with a team of engaged engineers, product managers and architects to design and develop highly scalable, reliable, features and microservices within the Payments Platform Group.

• Being involved in design meetings to propose, discuss, and refine new features and functionality.

• Quality champion and ensures good scalable tests for the existing and newly created code to maintain backward compatibility.

• Maintain and enhance the existing architectural documentation and create new ones as needed.

• Participate in code, design reviews and be responsible for all the CI/CD activities.

• Provide suggestions and plan executions to improve the SDLC process.

• Proactively identify and mitigate issues before they turn into major incidents.

• Exhibit a strong backbone and challenge the status quo.

What do you need to bring?

• Proficient in back-end development using Java EE technologies (e.g., Java language, application servers, servlet containers, JMS, JPA, etc.).

• Strong OOP skills, with ability to analyze requirements and transform into scalable software designs.

• Proficient understanding of SQL and other/NoSQL/modern database and storage technologies. Desired understanding of Oracle, JDBC and ORM frameworks (e.g., Hibernate).

• Valuable experience with HTTP, REST API's and competent designing and building web services/microservices in a commercial setting. Experience with Design Patterns, MVC and frameworks (e.g., Spring).

• Competent in design/implementation for reliability, availability, scalability, and performance.

• Competent in software engineering tools (e.g., Java build tools) and best practices (e.g., unit testing, test automation, continuous integration, continuous deployment etc.).

• Should be a strong advocate of code craftsmanship, good coding standards and use of tools that will improve the quality of the delivered code.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Demonstrate an elevated level of curiosity, passion for technology, pride of ownership and strive for excellence.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field. A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals. 5+ years' experience building successful production software systems.

**We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.

Additional Job Description:

Subsidiary:

PayPal

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Our Benefits:
At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset—you. That’s why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.
We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit

Who We Are:

to learn more about our culture and community.

PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit  ,   and  .

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at .

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