Your work will directly contribute to PayPal s overarching mission of revolutionizing commerce globally.
By building, enhancing, and scaling our applications and services that underpin our credit experiences, you will be a key player in enabling seamless and innovative financial services for our customers worldwide.
Your efforts in developing high-quality, secure, and performant software solutions will not only improve user experiences but also drive the financial inclusion and flexibility that is critical in todays digital economy.
Your role goes beyond coding; its about making a tangible impact on the lives of millions.
Your day to day
A successful candidate will have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences, a strong technical ability, excellent project execution skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment, In your role as a senior engineer, you will
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.
Adhere to and o wn 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
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
Mentor and coach less experienced engineers.
What do you need to bring
Bachelor s Degree or equivalent experience in software development.
Minimum 5 years experience delivering enterprise class JavaScript web applications and services, with at least 4 most recent years working on Node.js and React.js
Professional experience programming modern web applications in JavaScript, NodeJS ( ExpressJS ) , CSS, and HTML
Proficient in front-end skills React JS
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.
Team worker, responsible, delivery oriented.
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 .