Job Description

Time Type:

Full time

At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives.

Job Description Summary:

What you need to know about the role?
You will be responsible for developing the large scale distributed application platform architected for scale, which is capable of supporting multiple tenants seamlessly, and integrates with various payment processors and intermediaries, outside of PayPal, using industry standard Payment Integrations Methods. The focus would be on developing large scale enterprise platform, designed for scalability, availability and high resiliency, that can fail fast and auto recover, enabling highest level of STP -Straight Through Processing

Meet our team:
You will be part of the Payments Platform Team, focusing on the Settlement platform. The Settlements platform is the one of the largest platforms with that is responsible of settling funds between PayPal and users funding instruments. You will work alongside the brightest engineering talent, solving interesting problems on scalability using the latest technologies on prem and cloud.

Job Description:

Your way to impact:

Looking for technically strong candidate, with hands on development experience in JAVA, who is self-motivated, team player, with curiosity to learn and grow, exhibiting strong resolve to challenge the status quo, and strive for excellence in everything they do, with good professional and academic track record to be part of a team that deals with most innovative payments processing team that deals transactions at scale.

Your day-to-day: In your day-to-day role you will:

• Develops efficient, elegant, clean, reusable code with no unnecessary complication or abstraction.
• Mentors other engineers and developers by providing technical and business related guidance and resources;
• Deliver quality solutions on schedule;
• Create / Review well-articulated, detailed design documents;
• Advises management and appropriate groups on support issues which impact customer satisfaction and provides recommendations for appropriate actions
• Presents issues and solutions to audiences of varying sizes. Provides recognized technical and business leadership and is able to provide deep technical support across a range of functionality.
• Manages workload and other assignments efficiently while being able to resolve time-critical situations reliably and professionally.
• Participates in the development of tools, systems and processes aimed at improving product supportability or overall support productivity.
• Deep understanding of and extensive experience applying advanced object-oriented design and development principles.
• Expert level understanding of designing and developing data intensive applications, and architecting them for scalability and availability.
• Developing high traffic backend services, with low latency and designing them for scale.
• Experience applying software design patterns, data structures, algorithms.
• Good analytical and problem solving skills
• Experience collaborating with business users to define the key business requirements and translate them into process/technical solutions
• Experience in Unix based development environment is a plus
• Knowledge on scripting languages like Unix Shell, Perl, Python is a plus
• Experience in application performance fine tuning is a plus.
• Experience with unit testing using Junit and writing functional testing.
• Experience using industry standard software development tools (IDE / Version Control / Continuous Integration)
• Strong debugging and problem resolution skills
• Focuses on test driven development and automation.
• Refactor existing codebase and in understanding existing implementations to decide to refactor or rewrite.
• Identify Performance bottlenecks and use good coding patterns to avoid them 
• You’re a strong advocate of good coding standards and preach code-coverage tools like Sonar
• Provides technical leadership for a small team with limited guidance from management or senior teammates. Uses solid understanding or business domain and emerging technologies, understanding of how that domain interacts with other domains in design of technical solutions.
• Acts as role model for other members in the team.
• Drive consensus on proposed solutions
• Create & design innovative solutions
• Articulate technical tradeoffs with confidence
• Influence across both technical and business stakeholders. 
• 10+ years of experience developing large scale enterprise applications, primarily with JAVA with hands on experience in RDBMS and NoSQL databases

What do you need to bring?

• 10+ years of experience developing large scale applications JAVA, Spring Core and Spring Batch, with good hands on exposure to SQL and NoSQL technologies, good understanding of relational and free form databases, including strong data architecture and SQL/PL-SQL development skills
• Exposure to Spark, Distributed Databases, Cloud Technologies is a plus.
• Accomplished technologies with deep understanding of and extensive experience applying advanced object-oriented design and development principles.
• Expert level understanding of designing and developing data intensive applications, and architecting them for scalability and availability.
• Hands experience in designing and developing high traffic backend services, with low latency and designing them for scale.
• Accomplished technologies with expert level experience applying software design patterns, data structures, algorithms.
• Good analytical and problem solving skills
• Experience collaborating with business users to define the key business requirements and translate them into process/technical solutions
• Experience in handling multiple stakeholders across technology and business
• Ability to influence without authority
• Proficiency in driving consensus, and have proven track record of innovative solutions solving business problems, without creating technical debts.
• Experience in Unix based development environment is a plus
• Knowledge on scripting languages like Unix Shell, Perl, Python is a plus
• Experience in application performance fine tuning is a plus.
• Experience with unit testing using Junit and writing functional testing.
• Experience using industry standard software development tools (IDE / Version Control / Continuous Integration)
• Strong debugging and problem resolution skills
• Expertise in online payments and related domains is a plus
• Focuses on test driven development and automation.
• Believes in Agile development and are comfortable with SCRUM process.
• Refactor existing codebase and in understanding existing implementations to decide to refactor or rewrite.
• Identify Performance bottlenecks and use good coding patterns to avoid them 
• Strong advocate of good coding standards and preach code-coverage tools like Sonar

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.