Senior Software Engineer

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:

Risk Platform Services team is responsible for providing the infrastructure for fraud detection and decisioning, risk management and compute services across PayPal - globally. As a Software engineer, you would be responsible for building and scaling the next generation data engine and making it cloud ready .

We are always looking for strong technologists who are passionate to solve large scale highly complex computer engineering problems, in a repeatable and maintainable way. Our engineers build strong competencies in data structures and algorithms, along with a deep understanding of business processes.

Job Description:

You'll work alongside the best and the brightest engineering talent in the industry. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will participate in all phases of our software development lifecycle from design, architecture and planning to development, testing, deployment, monitoring and beyond. You will be responsible in delivering an industry leading product. The prospective candidate will be an individual contributor working with various cross functional groups (business, product, analytics, engineering) and will require admirable collaboration skills. Business acumen, hands-on technology skills, positive work ethic and a collaborative mindset are key to the success of this role.

Your Day to Day:

Demonstrate end to end ownership of features, projects, modules, and services that you and your team deliver.

Demonstrate a customer centric mindset as part of day-day work.

Participate in design and development efforts of existing and new frameworks built in Risk Data Platform and Infrastructure.

Act as a strong advocate for clean and scalable coding principles

Participate in formal and informal code reviews to ensure code quality

Be a champion of high-performance, secure, and reliable software services

Collaborate with core platform , infrastructure, business & product teams to implement features for Risk Platform.

Work with your Agile team to achieve shared understanding around the new products and features under consideration

Continuously learn by staying on top of the latest technology trends and share your knowledge and experience with your peers, adjacent teams, and across the organization.

Actively contribute to our automated test suite and build/deploy processed to enable speedy and reliable continuous integration

Advocate for ways to remediate technical debt on an ongoing basis.

Mentor junior engineers as they develop their technical skills.

Advocate for code craftsmanship, good coding standards and use of tools that will improve the quality of the delivered code.

What do you need to bring:

Strong programming skills and expertise in Java, Spring, Messaging Infrastructures like Kafka and server side technologies

Strong applied experience. You've built, broken, and rebuilt software applications. We're looking for creative thinkers who also know how to create real-world products.

Strong foundational knowledge in Object-Oriented Design Principles, Data Structures, Algorithms, SQL/NoSQL, concurrency, Operating Systems, and Software Engineering.

Experience with NOSQL Databases, Distributed systems, Machine Learning, Cloud-based technologies, Big Data Frameworks.

Experience on Big Data Technologies such as Apache Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, etc.

Applied Experience with development of RESTful APIs ,Web Services, SOA.

Expertise in understanding high level design and translating it into detailed design artifacts.

Authority in writing Unit Test cases, Functional test cases and meeting Non-Functional requirements like application security, availability and performance.

BSCS or MSCS preferred

Nice to Have:

Experience with building end to end data pipelines, data streaming and ingestion, data storage and processing using Airflow, Cloud Pub/Sub, Dataproc, BigQuery etc. along with some front end technologies is a big plus

Exposure and participation in tech events, hackathons, contributions to open source, authoring of blogs and active participation in online tech forums is a plus.

Understanding of mathematical concepts, statistical analysis is a plus

Be curious and open-minded

Be a quick learner undaunted by complex systems

Exposure and participation in tech events, hackathons, contributions to open source, authoring of blogs and active participation in online tech forums is a plus.

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

Additional Job Description:

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

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Our Benefits:

At PayPal, we're committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can't do this without our most important asset-you. That's why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.

We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com

Who We Are:

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PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering more than 400 million consumers and merchants in more than 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit paypal.com.

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected].

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As part of PayPal's commitment to employees' health and safety, we have established in-office Covid-19 protocols and requirements, based on expert guidance. Depending on location, this might include a Covid-19 vaccination requirement for any employee whose role requires them to work onsite. Employees may request reasonable accommodation based on a medical condition or religious belief that prevents them from being vaccinated.