Engineer - Backend (Java)

As a Software Engineer - 3, in PayPal s DPE organization, you will be responsible for working with a team of engineers in design, development, test, and deployment of a range of products. You will have to understand the needs of our developers, process, identify opportunities and improve our eco system to drive efficiency across entire organization from code to release. Above all, PayPal offers a collaborative culture that fosters innovation, entrepreneurship, continuous learning, and growth.

Meet our team:
Developer Platform Engineering ( DPE ) offers its developers a cohesive suite of tools, AI, services, and infrastructure, enabling them to build, test, deploy, and monitor applications efficiently across PayPal. And one such tool is Console.

Console is the home for any internal application or platform at PayPal. It is the one place where technologists at PayPal can create, manage and discover tools and services. Console provides developers a toolkit to develop client-facing applications also called an "extension".

As part of DPE organization, our mission is to reduce the cycle time of software delivery and enabling development teams to quickly take their code changes to production with highest quality which can be done by providing a Console Experience Platform for PayPal employees, be it they Developers, Data Scientists, Content Designers etc.

• Work within a team of highly talented engineers, products and architects to design and develop highly scalable systems
• Spends most of the time coding and efficiently produces exemplary and thoroughly tested code for most challenging features
• Being involved in design meetings to propose, discuss and refine new features and functionality.
• Write tests for the existing and newly created code to maintain compatibility.
• Maintain and enhance the existing architectural documentations and create the new one as needed.
• Participate in code and design reviews.
• Provide suggestions for continuous improvements as necessary

• Bachelor s / Masters or Equivalent in Computer Science with 5-8 years of experience in the software development.
• Analyses and improve stability, efficiency, and scalability of the platform.
• Solid understanding of algorithms and data structures, knowledge of object oriented design, Design Patterns and multi-threaded programming
• Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Prototype ideas quickly using cutting edge technologies.
• Solid communication skills ( written and verbal ) proven team player.
• Hands on Java Programming Expertise with specific focus on large scale distributed systems.
• Hands on application frameworks (e.g. React, Node.js)
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, XML, jQuery)
• Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL), web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design
• Experience with messaging platforms such as Kafka/RabbitMQ (or any message broker)
• Knowledge or Work experience in any Functional Programming is a big plus.
• Experience with front end design.
• Experience with Automation and Report generation.
• Ability to determine impact of architectural solutions and come up with Recommendations.
• Ability to adapt to new development environments, changing business requirements and learning new systems highly desired.
• Experience with the Agile development process, including running a Scrum team.
• Effective Team player with ability to drive cross-team solutions that have complex dependencies and requirements in a fast-paced environment.