Design, and implement real time, multi-tier distributed software applications, document and test systems, modify as appropriate.
Lead projects with other engineers, architects, managers, and Product Management, QA, and Operations teams to design and develop innovative processes and create solutions that meet business requirements.
Be a technical leader within your team and within PayPal in general
Be a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional agile team
Build new APIs to enhance the portfolio of PayPal s one of the most popular service.
Build performance sensitive systems that serve tens of millions of requests each day.
Build and take operational responsibility of Java services that serve millions of users
Be an active voice in architectural decisions for PayPal s core payments system
Be a master of your own destin, Build robust testing scripts/systems to break our APIs and eventually fix them
Lead engineering efforts, plan implementations, and rollout system changes. Participate in release management and on-call duties, review recommendations for project or production issues and diagnostics
Who you are
You know how to write highly scalable and distributed Java services
You drive technical projects and take pride in building systems that are used by millions of users every day.
You have experience in developing mid-tier services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
You have worked on traditional and non-traditional SORs from Oracle to Couchbase and Cassandra
You think Agile is the way to go for faster development until something better comes along.
You call Linux and Vim as your best buddies.
You have great communication skills.
You think POC (proof of concept) is the faster way to prove a point.
You are passionate about PayPal and its mission to build the Web s most convenient, secure, cost-effective payment solution.
Requirements:
Strong Java/J2EE skills required
Demonstrable programming abilities in Java and other languages like Python, XML, HTML.
Understanding of algorithmic techniques, design patterns and best practices.
Knowledge/experience with web services (REST / SOAP) and ORM (Hibernate)
Knowledge/experience with Spring.
Curiosity about how things work and the behaviour of finding the answers. Flexible and adapting the changing circumstances, tenacious.
Knowledge/experience with Unix. Knowledge/experience with relational databases, NoSQL databases. Knowledge/experience with applying Big O Notation to algorithms.
Knowledge/experience with GitHub. Knowledge/experience with Service Oriented Architectures.
