Senior Software Engineer, JAVA

Consumer Risk Engineering team is responsible for Risk decision, fraud detection, risk management decision. We design, develop, enhance and support services that get called across every interaction between PayPal and its users and partners. Our solutions need to scale across millions of such interactions, integrating with various other APIs in real time and yet providing high availability and configurability to the business. To achieve this we are always looking at advances in technology and science and tying those back to business needs.

To help with this, we are always looking for strong technologists who are passionate to solve large scale highly complex computer engineering problems, in a repeatable and maintainable way. As a member on our team, you will work directly with our Product Owners and Domain Technical Leads to create outstanding solutions and deliver incredible products.

You will:

• Be driven to get results and not let anything get in your way.
• Be proactive and anticipate/handle most issues before they escalate.
• Exhibit a strong backbone and challenge the status quo when needed.
• Demonstrate a high level of curiosity and keep abreast of the latest technologies.
• Show pride of ownership and strive for excellence in everything you do.

Responsibilities:

• Design, development, and testing of features/functions delivered via applications and services.
• Collaborating with peers and seniors both within their team and across the organization.
• Working with product managers using agile methodologies to deliver high quality solutions on time.
• Working with operations teams to ensure your applications and services are highly available and reliable.

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent experience).
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in software development and building scalable solutions.
• Strong applied experience. You’ve built, broken, and rebuilt software applications. We’re looking for creative thinkers who also know how to create real-world products.
• Proficient in back-end development using Java EE technologies (e.g. Java language, application servers, servlet containers, JMS, JPA, etc.).
• Strong Object Oriented Programming skills, with ability to analyze requirements and transform into scalable software designs.
• Experience with HTTP, REST API’s and competent designing and building web services in a commercial setting.
• Experience with Design Patterns, MVC and frameworks (e.g. Spring).
• Experience with Service Oriented Architectures.
• Experience with development of scalable and distributed Java services.
• Competent in design/implementation for reliability, availability, scalability and performance.
• Competent in software engineering tools (e.g. Java build tools) and best practices (e.g. unit testing, test automation, continuous integration, etc.).
• Should have good communication skills.

We know confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don’t hesitate to apply!

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