PayPal Sr Software Engineer 

United States, California, San Jose 

577883469

Essential Responsibilities:

• Delivers complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) (design, implementation, testing, delivery and operations), based on definitions from more senior roles.
• Advises immediate management on project-level issues
• Guides junior engineers
• Operates with little day-to-day supervision, making technical decisions based on knowledge of internal conventions and industry best practices
• Applies knowledge of technical best practices in making decisions

Expected Qualifications:

• 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate a customer centric mindset as part of day-day work.
• Ensure that the design and implementation adheres to defined specs and processes.
• Own end-to-end quality of deliverables during all phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Understand technical designs by working within PayPal’s cross-functional technology team.
• Collaborate with core platform and infrastructure teams to satisfy the infrastructure needs for payments solutions.
• Collaborate between business, product and technology in the process of understanding the requirement and coming up with implementation options
• Ability to function effectively in a fast paced environment and manage continuously changing business needs

Technical Skills

• Strong programming skills and expertise in Java/J2EE, Spring and Hibernate
• Exposure to one or more server side scripting technologies.
• Experience with REST API’s, Web Services, Unit Testing and build tools.
• Good understanding and hands on experience with databases such as MySQL/ Oracle etc.
• Strong understanding of web-based programming languages
• Rich object-oriented design and analysis skills
• Experience in refactoring existing code base and in understanding existing implementations to decide to refactor or rewrite.

Personal Traits

• Be a quick learner undaunted by complex systems.
• Take risks and thrive in an environment of constant change.
• Contributed to building the complete life cycle of transaction processing preferably in payments domain.
• Exposure and participation in tech events, hackathons, contributions to open source, authoring of blogs and active participation in online tech forums is a plus.

: BSCS or equivalent + 6 years of experience / MSCS + 4 years of experience in software development

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

The US national annual pay range for this role is $123,500 to $212,850

Our Benefits:

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