Senior Engineer - Java

What you need to know about the role-

Staff engineer role, residing in the World Ready Localization Platform engineering team that works on building scalable services and platforms to enable localization for all the product teams across the enterprise.

Meet our team
You will be part of the World Ready Localization Platform engineering team, focusing on building scalable services and platforms to enable localization for all the product teams across PayPal to launch their products to the 200+ markets supporting 40+ languages. You will work alongside the brightest engineering talent, solving interesting problems on scalability using the latest technologies on-prem and cloud.

• Push our technology stack into the future by working with Product, Platform, and Engineering leaders across the Web and Mobile Experiences team to identify the most valuable areas of technical contribution and advancement
• Provide end-to-end solutions for overall architecture of new and upcoming initiatives
• Reduce risk on critical projects by playing a part in vetting high-level requirements of all incoming medium-to-large-sized initiatives
• Drive both technology and platform innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development
• Provide technical guidance and leadership in design, development, scaling and operation of software applications
• Be a technical subject matter expert and represent the full internal and external capabilities of our platforms to enable solutions to complex, large-scale customers
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with any and all non-technical stakeholders (Product, Design, Analytics, Legal, Marketing, etc.)

• Bachelor s/Master s in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years experience in Java backend development.
• Track record of leading, developing, and delivering significant software projects
• Expert knowledge in Java, Spring framework, Spring boot, React JS and node.js
• Good understanding of web services and related standards like REST/JSON.
• 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 large scale distributed systems.
• Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases.
• Experience in Domain Driven Design and modeling complex business domains
• Demonstrable experience building complex customer facing platforms, inclusive of complex APIs and other aspects of developer experiences (sandbox, playgrounds, simulators, etc.)
• Established experience with Globalization(g11n) , Internationalization (i18n), Localization(L10n), Unicode and CLDR is huge plus
• Experience with the software release lifecycle using modern distributed version control (e.g. git)
• Experience working in an Agile environment, including Extreme Programming practices like Iterative Development, Continuous Integration (and Deployment) and Test-Driven Development