PayPal Senior Software Engineer 

United States, Texas, Austin 

719627776

What you need to know about the role

Your day to day

• Develops efficient, elegant, clean, reusable code with no unnecessary complication or abstraction.

• Mentor other engineers and developers by providing technical and business-related guidance and resources;

• Deliver quality solutions on schedule.

• Create / Review well-articulated, detailed design documents.

• Provides recognized technical and business leadership and can provide deep technical support across a range of functionality.

• Manages workload and other assignments efficiently while being able to resolve time-critical situations reliably and professionally.

• Participates in the development of tools, systems and processes aimed at improving product supportability or overall support productivity.

What do you need to bring

• 5+ years of good experience in developing large scale enterprise applications, primarily with JAVA with hands on experience in RDBMS and NoSQL databases.

• Good experience in developing large scale applications JAVA, Spring Core and Spring Batch, with good hands-on exposure to SQL and NoSQL technologies, good understanding of relational and free form databases, including strong data architecture and SQL/PL-SQL development skills

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

• Intermediate 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, algorithms.

• Good analytical and problem solving skills

• Experience collaborating with business users to define the key business requirements and translate them into process/technical solutions

• Knowledge on scripting languages like Unix Shell, Perl, Python is a plus

• 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

• Expertise in online payments and related domains is a plus

• Focuses on test driven development and automation.

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

• Refactor existing codebase and in understanding existing implementations to decide to refactor or rewrite.

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

• You’re a strong advocate of good coding standards and preach code-coverage tools like Sonar.

Our Benefits:

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