Engineer - Backend (Java)

Software Engineers at PayPal develop innovative solutions and high-quality products that touch millions of people every day around the globe. Our engineers solve some of the most complex technical problems across all business units, including PayPal, Braintree, Venmo, Paydiant and others. We are looking for the highest levels of technical talent and programming skills, as well as a keen desire to deeply understand our products and services to push our technology forward with respect to functionality, performance, reliability, and scalability.

Meet our team:
You ll work alongside the best and the brightest engineering talent in the industry. We have opportunities in a wide range of areas including development, design, platform, and back end. As a core participant of your team, you ll estimate engineering efforts, design your changes, implement and test your changes, push to live, and triage production issues. You need to be dynamic, collaborative, and curious as we build new experiences, improve existing products, and develop distributed systems at a scale only a few companies can match.

• Develop efficient, elegant, clean, reusable code with no unnecessary complication or abstraction.
• Deliver quality solutions on schedule.
• Create / Review well-articulated, detailed design documents.
• Provide deep technical support across a range of functionality.
• Manages workload and other assignments efficiently while being able to resolve time-critical situations reliably and professionally.
• Participates in the development of tools, systems and processes aimed at improving product supportability or overall support productivity.

• 3+ years of experience developing large scale enterprise applications, primarily with JAVA with hands on experience in RDBMS and NoSQL databases.
• Experience developing large scale applications JAVA, Spring Core and Spring Batch.
• Experience developing REST APIs
• Knowledge on GraphQL
• Exposure to SQL and NoSQL technologies.
• Exposure to Cloud Technologies.
• Good understanding of advanced object-oriented design and development principles.
• Intermediate level understanding of designing and developing data intensive applications.
• Developing high traffic backend services, with low latency.
• Experience applying software design patterns, data structures, algorithms.
• Good analytical and problem solving skills
• Experience in Unix based development environment.
• Knowledge on scripting languages like Unix, Shell, Python.
• Experience in application performance fine tuning.
• Experience with unit testing using Junit and writing functional testing.
• Experience using industry standard software development tools (IDE / Version Control / Continuous Integration)
• Strong debugging and problem resolution skills
• Focuses on test driven development and automation.
• Believes in Agile development and are comfortable with SCRUM process.
• Refactor existing codebase and in understanding existing implementations to decide to refactor or rewrite.
• Knowledge about CI/CD via Jenkins
• Knowledge on Docker, Kubernetes