MTS 1, Software Engineer

A customer focused, hands-on Java engineer, responsible for designing, implementing and delivering state of the art foundational capabilities that are used across Paypal. The ideal candidate is an individual with experience working on large scale systems engaging across the full software lifecycle, from system design and development of front-end systems components. Business acumen, hands-on technology skills, positive work ethic and a collaborative mindset are key to the success of this role.
The prospective candidate will be an individual contributor working with various cross functional groups (business, product, analytics, user experience design and engineering) and will require admirable collaboration skills. The role would involve building new and emerging foundational platforms and capabilities that will be used across Paypal products

• 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.
• Guide junior engineers effectively

• 8-9 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 in JAVA, Spring Core and Spring Batch,
• Exposure to SQL and NoSQL technologies is a plus.
• Exposure to Cloud Technologies is a plus.
• 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 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.