Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Java)

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:
• Your way to impact
• Protect customers and PayPal by building real-time risk systems that scale across millions of transactions.
• Keep payments seamless for good users while stopping fraud, with services that are highly available, reliable, and configurable.
• Shape the technical direction of the team by challenging the status quo, bringing fresh ideas, and championing clean, scalable engineering practices.
• Reduce technical debt and raise the quality bar for software and the team.
• Your day to day
• Design, develop, and test features and services for our risk applications.
• Work with product managers in an agile setting to deliver high-quality solutions on time.
• Partner with developers, product, design, and analytics teams to explore new ideas and opportunities.
• Work with operations teams to keep services highly available and reliable.
• Take part in code reviews to maintain code quality.
• Contribute to our automated test suite to enable fast, reliable continuous integration.
• Communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders.
• Be proactive: anticipate issues and handle them before they escalate.
• What do you need to bring-
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical discipline with 4-6 years of experience.
• Strong applied experience: you’ve built, broken, and rebuilt software, and you know how to ship real-world products.
• Proficiency in back-end development with Java EE technologies (Java, application servers, servlet containers, JMS, JPA).
• Strong object-oriented programming skills and the ability to turn requirements into scalable designs.
• Experience designing and building REST APIs and web services or microservices in a commercial setting.
• Experience with design patterns, MVC, and frameworks such as Spring.
• Experience with service-oriented architectures and scalable, distributed Java services.
• Skill in designing for reliability, availability, scalability, and performance.
• Familiarity with engineering tools and practices such as Java build tools, unit testing, test automation, and CI.
• Strong communication skills.
• A mindset of ownership, curiosity, and drive to get results.
• We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.
• Subsidiary:
• PayPal
• Travel Percent:
• 0
• PayPal does not charge candidates any fees for courses, applications, resume reviews, interviews, background checks, or onboarding. When making an application directly, we will never ask you to share passwords, one-time passcodes (OTP), or verification codes. Any such request is a red flag and likely part of a scam. All communication regarding your application will come from official PayPal email domains. If you suspect fraudulent activity, please report it immediately. To learn more about how to identify and avoid recruitment fraud please visit https://careers.pypl.com/contact-us.
• For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.
• Our Benefits:
• At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset-you. That’s why we offer comprehensive, choice-based programs, to support all aspects of personal wellbeing—physical, emotional, and financial—delivering meaningful value where it matters most. We strive to create a flexible, balanced work culture with a holistic approach to benefits, including generous paid time off, healthcare coverage for you and your family, and resources to create financial security and support your mental health.

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