Staff Engineer - Backend (Java)

We are looking for a well-rounded technologist with experience in large scale applications. As a solution architect you will be responsible to create engineering solutions for regulatory requirements spanning across multiple domains working with cross-domain architects. Work with the stakeholders including leads and team for successful execution of the projects on time, ensuring all the quality standard and metrics are met.

Meet our team
Consumer Experience (CXP) Engineering team builds user experiences used by millions of consumers across the globe. As a solution architect, working for the global leader, PayPal s Consumer engineering organization, you will have an impact on PayPal s products all around the world.

Our engineers work to better understand our end-users, their needs and requirements, identify opportunities and improve our products by innovating, and delivering quality products with best of user experience. Simplicity is the key. If you are an experienced full stack engineer with excellent coding skills, understand technology, can apply it to perfection for delivering quality, simple product and a passion for solving unique challenges, along with working in a highly collaborative and values-driven environment then PayPal s Consumer Experience (CXP) is looking for you.

• Collaborate in an empowered engineering team to develop extensible technical solutions for complex problems
• 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, explore new opportunities and to formulate innovative solutions to improve customer success 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.
• Adhere to and own end-to-end quality of deliverables during all phases of the software development lifecycle including secure development, localization and internationalization.
• Design, code, and maintain web services and applications that directly provide core capabilities for PayPal
• Develops and communicates 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
• Able to work with abstract architecture and move existing non generic code to a more generic and abstract framework when necessary
• Work on test automation: TDD, unit/integration/functional and accessibility testing.
• Maintain and enhance the existing architectural documentations and create the new one as needed
• Continuously raise the bar and leverage new technology to make improvements around engineering process, quality, and efficiency through automation, proper code abstraction, and monitoring
• Mentor and coach less experienced engineers.

• bachelors Degree or equivalent experience in software development.
• Minimum 10 years experience delivering enterprise class JavaScript web applications and services, with at least 4 most recent years working on JAVA/NodeJS and ReactJS
• Professional experience programming modern web applications in JavaScript, NodeJS (ExpressJS), CSS, and HTML and JAVA
• Proficient in front-end skills React JS and backend JAVA
• Leadership in designing and architecting scalable systems with a focus on microservices, and serverless architectures.
• Expertise in designing and implementing fault-tolerant systems with a focus on high availability and disaster recovery.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, drive technical roadmaps, and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented design and concepts with ability to analyze requirements and transform into scalable software designs.
• You must be a self- starter, work independently or as a team member, and have strong communication skills in interfacing with business partners and the Technology.
• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, scaling and performance) of new and current systems. Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases
• Solid understanding of concepts like Web Services, SOA, REST APIs, Message Queue, Distributed/Scalable Architecture. Experience with competent designing and building web services/microservices in a enterprise setting.
• Cognizant of SQL and other/NoSQL/modern database and storage technologies. Desired understanding of Oracle, JDBC and ORM frameworks (e.g. Hibernate).
• Competent in software engineering tools (e.g. Java build tools) and best practices (e.g. unit testing, test automation, continuous integration, etc.).
• Experience in refactoring existing code-base and in understanding existing implementations, with the ability to decide whether to refactor or rewrite.
• Should be a strong advocate of code craftsmanship, good coding standards and use of tools that will improve the quality of the delivered code
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written. Experience in communicating with other technical teams, product and senior management to collect requirements, describe/understand product features, technical designs, and engineering strategy
• Strong analytical skills.
• Demonstrate a high level of curiosity, passion for technology, pride of ownership and strive for excellence
• Ability to function effectively in a fast-paced environment and manage continuously changing business needs.
• Proven ability to lead, influence, and mentor engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation with positive attitude and continuous improvements