PayPal Senior Software Engineer 

United States, California, San Jose 

369051533

What you need to know about the role:

Meet Our Team:

• The Stored Value Platform, within the Payments organization, facilitates the setup and management of PayPal balances, empowering the creation of new product experiences to enhance customer engagement and provide users with more financial options.
• Operating at high volume and availability, processing billions of transactions daily, the platform offers the opportunity to work on large-scale applications serving real-world customers. Candidates will gain experience in scaling applications and databases while ensuring design, development, and quality delivery of the platform.

Your Way to Impact:

• Your work will directly contribute to PayPal's overarching mission of revolutionizing commerce globally. By building, enhancing, and scaling the back-end applications that underpin our payment experiences, you will be a key player in enabling seamless and innovative financial services for our customers worldwide. Your efforts in developing high-quality, secure, and performant software solutions will not only improve user experiences but also drive the financial inclusion and flexibility that is critical in today's digital economy.
• You will own thedesign,implementation, and delivery of solutions, scaling the platform for increased traffic to support our business growth.​

Your Day to Day:

• You will be partnering with Payment teams, Data architecture teams and Product teams to deliver best in class product.
• Design, develop, test, and deploy robust software solutions using Java, ensuring high performance, security, and scalability.
• Independently work on multiple product features, utilizing your technical expertise to propose innovative solutions for both new and existing functionalities, informed by a growing understanding of our products and the business domain.
• Manage your own project deliverables, timelines, and priorities, effectively balancing multiple tasks to meet project deadlines and performance targets.
• Drive operational excellence by optimizing processes and workflows for enhanced productivity and efficiency.
• Actively engage in design and code reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers and incorporating feedback into your own work to maintain high standards of code quality andfunctionality.
• Mentor and train new team members, sharing your knowledge and experience to help onboard them onto the team quickly and efficiently, fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
• Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development.
• Champion clean code principles, ensuring adherence to best practices.

What You Need to Bring:

• Master’s degree or Bachelor's degree in Computer science with a minimum of 4+ years ofexperience in software development building large scale enterprise applications.
• Proficiency in Java programming, with hands-on experience in Java, J2EE, and the Spring framework.
• Experience developing large-scale applications, microservices, and REST APIs.
• Experience working with relational databases like Oracle.
• Strong understanding of data-intensive application design and architecture principles.
• Solid grasp of object-oriented design principles, data structures, algorithms, SQL/NoSQL databases, and operating systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for debugging complex issues.
• Identify Performance bottlenecks and use good coding patterns to avoid them.
• Experience with test automation:TDD, unit/integration/functional testing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
• Highly flexible, able to prioritize multiple projects and deadlines to execute well in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving organization.

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 U.S. national annual pay range for this role is

$72700 to $176000

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