Engineer - Backend (Java)

What you need to know about the role:

As a Backend Java Engineer on our Risk-as-a-Service team, you will play a crucial role in building scalable, reliable, and secure backend systems that power our innovative risk management solutions. You will work alongside a talented group of engineers, data scientists, and product managers to develop cutting-edge solutions that help our clients mitigate risk, improve decision-making, and maintain compliance in a rapidly evolving financial landscape.

Meet our team:

Risk as a Service (RaaS) team is at the forefront of designing, developing, and shipping a wide range of products for transaction and payments risk detection and mitigation for PayPal merchants. We provide a holistic, end-to-end fraud and decision-making platform to empower businesses battling to contain fraud in a digital-first world. We build various powerful, highly usable platforms and services which enable organizations to make data-driven decisions and grow faster. Our range of products helps provide businesses with the flexibility to adapt as fraud evolves, ensuring that our merchants always have the information they need to make the right decisions.

• Adhere to and own end-to-end quality of deliverables during all phases of the software development lifecycle including secure development, localization, and internationalization.
• Write code that is designed to be reusable and that can be shared amongst other teams.
• Develop and communicate technical processes, standards, and best practices to the team .
• Be willing and able to learn new technologies and programming languages when the need to do so arises.

• Work with a team of engineers in design, development, test, and deployment of highly scalable and configurable products on web and mobile platforms which works on cross-browser, cross- platform.
• Work with product and design teams to understand business requirements, to develop new ideas and explore new opportunities. Your opinion matters and you ll have opportunities of being involved in design meetings to propose, discuss, and refine new features and functionality.
• Collaborate and work with cross-functional teams to develop and deliver E2E solutions providing high availability and configurability that bring real business value.
• You will be responsible for communicating to stakeholders on technical standards, principles, methodology and trends.
• Work on test automation: TDD, unit/integration/functional and accessibility testing.
• Maintain and enhance the existing architectural documentation and create the new one as needed.

• 3-5 years of experience in Software development.
• Bachelors or master s in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• Proficient in Java and Spring Framework
• Deep understanding of applying advanced object-oriented design and development principles
• Perform high-quality software analysis, design, development, testing and maintenance for the PayPal core technology platform
• Solid CS fundamental is necessary. (Data structures, Algorithms, OS, Databases). Good knowledge of RESTful APIs Webservices.
• Focus on automation, and test-driven development
• Ability to work with teams in remote locations to complete assigned tasks.
• Ability to create test plans, test cases and track resolution of software defects.
• Self-motivated and fully committed dynamic individual with ability to adapt and adjust to fast-paced environment
• Experience developing data-driven applications using an industry standard RDBMS (Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, etc.), including strong data architecture and SQL development skills
• Experience in developing applications using NoSQL Databases (Cassandra, DynamoDB etc.) and Messaging technologies (Kafka, Rabbit MQ etc.)
• Experience with unit testing and tools
• Experience using industry standard software development tools (IDE / Version Control /Continuous Integration)
• Experience with Agile Software Development Experience with load and performance testing best practices.
• Experience in Unix based development environment is a plus.
• Top-notch problem-solving skills and ability to break down complex concepts
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills in English