Software Engineer 2

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At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives. We’re a purpose-driven company, and our beliefs are the foundation of how we conduct business every day. We’re guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Collectively, these values inspire us to work together as One Team with our customers at the center of everything we do, and to take care of ourselves, each other, and the communities in which we live and work. We challenge the status quo, ask questions, and find solutions. Join us as we enable the hopes, dreams, and ambitions of millions of people around the world.

 

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Job Description Summary:

Does it excite you to work on systems that process billions of dollars in payments per year in 195+ countries? How about making an impact on 250+ million PayPal users around the world?

PayPal Core Payment Platform team is looking for a talented, creative, and passionate back end engineer to help design and build a new Transaction Engineering (TE) platform. As a self-motivated and enthusiastic member of our team, you will work with extremely talented peers in a fun environment building performance efficient, highly scalable, configurable and available systems. You will work in an agile environment with a focus on problem solving and engineering excellence.

TE team is at the heart of what PayPal does and handles most payment transactions that involve PayPal. Its mission is to deliver a great payment experience while ensuring high availability and extreme reliability. Consequently, it is a high stakes and high-energy environment employing innovative ideas and cutting edge technologies. If you enjoy problem solving while being in the spotlight 24x7, this is the place for you!

Job Description:

Primary responsibilities include:

• Design, develop and test high throughput back-end TE systems
• Develop efficient, elegant, clean code with no unnecessary complication or abstraction
• Passionate about low latency systems
• Continuously look for opportunities for performance tuning
• Collaborating with other engineers, architects and DBAs
• Collaborating with product managers using agile methodologies to deliver high quality solutions on time
• Collaborating with operations teams to ensure your applications and services are highly available and reliable

Background we are looking for: 

• You love solving problems and building solutions.
• You are self-motivated and have a demonstrated track record of self-learning and going above and beyond
• You are excited to create high traffic backend distributed services for customers
• You want to hit the ground running on Day 1; you take ownership of your work and can work independently.
• You have designed and clearly understand concepts like Web Services, SOA, REST APIs, SPRING Framework.
• You know the fundamentals of Object-Oriented Programming using Java, C++; familiarity with additional development tools such as JUnit, Maven & Jenkins is a plus.
• You love Git and are at home with source control concepts such as merge, rebase and pull.
• You have used SQL & NoSQL solutions and understand the pros and cons of relational and free form databases; with good hands on experience in Oracle database.
• You have comfortable using application server frameworks, for example Tomcat or JBOSS.
• You believe in Agile development and putting the customer first in anything you design; experience with SCRUM is a plus.
• You are a strong advocate of good coding standards and like the use of coding tools that will push you to improve the code you deliver like Sonar.
• You know how to identify performance bottlenecks and use good coding patterns to avoid them in the first place.

Requirements

• Expert in Java features, Object Oriented and modular programming (Design Patterns are a plus), profiling/tuning, garbage collection.
• 0-2+ years of experience in software development.
• Bachelors in Computer Science or related degree required. Masters preferred.
• Experience in object-oriented programming and concepts
• Experience in Distributed System development using Java/J2EE/Web Technologies/C++.
• Experience in caching software
• Experience in Spring framework and other open source frameworks
• Experience in both development and quality assurance activities
• Experience in QA methodologies, test automation and automation frameworks
• Experience working in payments or financial services industry is a plus
• Proven track record in delivering highly available, scalable systems on time
• Conversant in design patterns
• Good understanding of web services and related standards like REST/JSON

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

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For more than 20 years, PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 400 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying, or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom, enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected].