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PayPal Senior Software Engineer - Backend Java 
India, Tamil Nadu, Chennai 
91300503

09.10.2025

This job delivers complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). It involves advising management on project-level issues, guiding junior engineers, operating with little supervision, and applying knowledge of technical best practices.


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

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent 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

Our Benefits:

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