What you need to know about the role-We solve world-scale problems and provide opportunities to match. We build diverse teams that recognize our strengths and allow us to work on our weaknesses. You bring skills and a relentless focus on the customer, and we'll provide the support you need to do the best work of your life.We value unique perspectives brought by diverse backgrounds and experiences. A broad range of ideas and perspectives help us to create the best possible product.
Your way to impact
- Lead projects with other engineers, architects, managers, and Product Management, QA, and Operations teams to design and develop innovative processes and create solutions that meet business requirements.
- Be a technical leader within your team and within PayPal in general.
- Provide technical and project leadership and mentoring.
- Be a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional agile team.
- Build performance sensitive systems that serve tens of millions of requests each day.
- Be an active voice in architectural decisions for PayPal’s core payments system.
Your day to day
- You know how to write highly scalable and distributed Ruby on Rails services.
- You drive technical projects and take pride in building systems that are used by millions of users every day.
- You have experience in developing mid-tier services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
- You have worked on traditional and non-traditional SORs from Oracle to Couchbase and Cassandra.
- You think Agile is the way to go for faster development until something better comes along.
- You call Linux and Vim as your best buddies.
- You have great communication skills.
- You think POC (proof of concept) is the faster way to prove a point.
- You are passionate about PayPal and its mission to “build the Web’s most convenient, secure, cost-effective payment solution.
What do you need to bring-
- 4+ years of experience in Ruby
- Strong Ruby or strong programming abilities in Java and other languages like Python
- Strong understanding of algorithmic techniques, design patterns and best practices.
- Curiosity about how things work and the behavior of finding the answers. Flexible and adapting the changing circumstances, tenacious.
- Knowledge/experience withUnix. Knowledge/experience with relational databases, NoSQL databases.
- Knowledge/experience withGitHub. Knowledge/experience with Service Oriented Architecture.
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