Senior Engineer - Backend (Java)

PayPal Financial Services organization is looking for a customer-focused, hands-on Java engineer, responsible for designing, implementing and delivering state-of-the-art consumer experiences. The ideal candidate is an individual with experience building large scale systems engaging across the full software lifecycle, from system design and development of system backend 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.

Meet Your Team

PayPal is transforming global commerce. Our Engineering team is the heart of this transformation. We re building innovative solutions that delight customers and drive business growth. Join our dynamic engineering team at PayPal, where you ll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented peers and work on high-impact projects in an agile environment. Were not just building systems; were creating scalable, high-performance solutions that make a real difference in global commerce. We prioritize code quality, customer focus, and rapid iteration. Our engineers work closely with design, product, and QA teams to deliver world-class experiences.

• You will own the concept, productisation, and delivery of the technical solutions improves productivity, drives operational efficiency and scale to support our business growth
• You will partner closely with our cross-functional teams and will be responsible for building a great experience for our customers.

• Design elegant, scalable solutions and maintain documentation.
• Collaborate closely with other teams to solve complex problems.
• Develop code sufficiently supported by high quality tests
• Review code written by others and provide constructive feedback.
• Deploy and maintain code using PayPal s Dev-ops pipeline
• Participate in triaging and mitigating production issues
• Participate in scrum meetings and provide leadership in improving the execution rhythms.
• Guide and mentor other developers in the team.

• 8+ years hands-on experience Java, OO-based design and development.
• Design and implementation of micro-services
• Proven track record working with real-world projects, solid understanding of software development/delivery lifecycle
• Development experience with high-traffic backend services
• Direct experience with concepts such as SOA, REST APIs, message-based communication.
• Understand concepts around concurrency and transactions
• Understand distributed systems concepts like SLAs, consistency, data durability, message persistence and idempotency.
• Architecture principles for SOA, Event Driven and Large-Scale Systems
• Strong skills in Server-Side Java, Spring, Spring Batch, Hibernate, REST, Maven and other open-source Java Libraries.
• Experience with Kafka/RabbitMQ (or any message broker) as well hands-on with containerisation (Docker) is a plus
• Good grasp of Data structures Algorithm concepts.
• Database design, programming, tuning and query optimisation.
• Test methodologies and testing tools, e.g., TestNG, JUnit.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems.
• Experience in software configuration management and streaming strategies for large parallel development teams.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with remote teams across time zones is essential.
• Strong verbal and writing skills; ability to thoroughly understand product specifications, and ability to produce clear, concise documentation.
• Understanding of processes and standards from compliance standpoint.
• Project planning ability, experience in managing small development teams.
• Experience with GitHub, Jira
• Comfortable with Agile and Scrum