Sr. Java Software Engineer

Who we are

 

Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 392 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom, enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.

 

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Job Description Summary:

Software engineers at PayPal develop innovative solutions and high-quality products that touch millions of people every day around the globe. Our engineers solve some of the most complex technical problems in the world of connected payments across all business units, including PayPal, Braintree, Venmo, Paydiant and others. We are looking for the highest levels of technical talent and programming skills, as well as a keen desire to deeply understand our products and services to push our technology forward with respect to functionality, performance, reliability, and scalability.

Job Description:

You’ll work alongside the best and the brightest engineering talent in the industry. We have opportunities in a wide range of areas including development, design, search, platform, test, quality, big data, front end and back end. As a core participant of your team, you’ll estimate engineering efforts, prioritize projects, plan implementations, and triage production issues. You need to be dynamic, collaborative, and curious as we build new experiences, improve existing products, and develop distributed systems powering the world’s largest e-commerce and payments websites at a scale only a few companies can match.  You will work with both established and cutting edge technologies like Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Camel, J2EE, JaxB, JSON, Protobuf, RxJava, RxNetty, Hibernate, and Hystrix or Resilience4J to build highly resilient, low-latency, high throughput and with 4 9's availability services.

The responsibilities include:
Design, develop, and test new capabilities to meet the business needs
Collaborate with peers and seniors both within Payments team and across the organization and geo-locations
Work with the product managers using agile methodologies to deliver high quality solutions on time
Work with operations teams to ensure your applications and services are highly available and reliable
Support your applications services as and when required on a 24x7 basis

Successful engineers are:
Self driven to get results and not let anything get in your way
Proactive, anticipate and handle issues before they become a problem
Exhibit a strong resolve and challenge the status quo when needed
Demonstrate a high level of curiosity and keep abreast of the latest technologies
Show pride of ownership and strive for excellence in everything they do

Job Requirements
BS in Computer Science or equivalent, MS preferred
5+ year experience in Java programming
Strong fundamentals of Object Oriented Programming using Java, C++ (or equivalent)
Designed web applications and clearly understand concepts like Web Services, SOA, REST APIs
Expert in Spring, Spring Boot, J2EE technologies, RxJava, JSON, RESTful APIs
Expert in designing and building RESTful interfaces in a commercial setting
Built SQL & NoSQL solutions and understand the pros and cons of relational and free form databases.
Competent in design and implementation for reliability, availability, scalability and performance
Well versed in software engineering tools and best practices

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

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Primary Location:

Austin, Texas, United States of America

Additional Locations:

We're a purpose-driven company whose beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day.  We hold ourselves to our One Team Behaviors which demand that we hold the highest ethical standards, to empower an open and diverse workplace, and strive to treat everyone who is touched by our business with dignity and respect.  Our employees challenge the status quo, ask questions, and find solutions.  We want to break down barriers to financial empowerment.  Join us as we change the way the world defines financial freedom.

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].