PayPal Staff Software Engineer Backend 

United States, California, San Jose 

641063625

is responsible forbuilding highly scalable applications to enable payment processing capabilities on the platform.

Your day to day:

• Play a crucial role in building solutions for our customers.

• Build andmaintaina highly reliable, available, and resilient commerce platform.

• Lead by example and help foster a culture of positivity, psychological safety, and inclusivity within the team.

• Work with other engineers andPMsacross multiple teams to gather requirements, design, develop, test, launch, andmaintain

• Drive operational excellence byoptimizingprocesses and workflows for enhanced productivity and efficiency.

• Drive integration efforts and lead critical work streams of strategic initiatives sponsored by senior executives

• Mentor other engineers and contribute to the technical direction of the team.

What do you need to bring:

• Must have a BS orMSDegree in Computer Science or equivalent

• 7+ years of experience in software development building large-scale enterprise applications.

• Experience with Javascript both client and server-side are required.

• REST APIs, Custom Web services development and integration is required.

• J2EE, Spring MVC and Spring Boot are required.

• Deep understanding of and extensive experience applying advanced object-oriented design and development principles.

• Expert-level understanding of designing and developing data-intensive applications and architecting them for scalability and availability.

• Developing high-traffic backend services, with low latency and designing them for scale.

• Experience applying software design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.

• up-to-dateon the latest technologies and platforms.

• Prior experience in monitoring large-scaledistributedsystems. Demonstrated knowledge of automation for most of the manual tasks aroundSDLCwith techniques such as packaging with Docker, ensuring a reliable CI/CD Should be able to isolate errors by trouble-shooting the application stack from application to framework to underlying infrastructure dependencies and network.

• Hands-on knowledge of OOP/OOD/Functional languages along with a strong understanding of concurrency, parallelism, and networking, with profound data structure & algorithms.

• Experience developing solutions for service monitoring, automated remediation, measuring availability and reliability, performance, analytics, and network.

• Ability to reduce tech debt and have a plan to remove them from the system.

• Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision in a team to define, design, implement, test, release rollout, and support software applications for PayPal.

• Work with business units to crystallize business needs into product features.

• Experience in application performance fine-tuning is a plus.

• Experience with unit testing using Junit and writing functional testing.

• Experience using industry-standard software development tools (IDE / Version Control / Continuous Integration)

• Strong debugging and problem-resolution skills

• in online payments and related domains is a plus.

• Focuses on test-driven development and automation.

• Believes in Agile development and is comfortable with SCRUM process.

• Refactor existing codebase and understand existing implementations to decide whether to refactor or rewrite.

• Performance bottlenecks and use good coding patterns to avoid them.

Highly competent hands-on experience in the following:

particularly large-scale web-based systems. (J2EE)

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.

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The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is $130,100 to $204,600.