Software Engineer - Backend (Java)

Overview

Backend Software Engineer on the Unified Notification Platform team under PayPal's Core Platform Organization, building a large-scale distributed system that sends billions of notifications monthly across SMS, Email, Push Notifications, Alerts and Webhooks.

What you'll do

• Implement tasks within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), receiving structure and oversight from more experienced staff.
• Follow well-established internal conventions and standard procedures.
• Understand internal standards and processes and apply them to make technical decisions.
• Collaborate with peers, manager, and project lead to understand tasks and review solutions.
• Contribute to code and design reviews.
• Navigate complex architecture and designs and develop features to enhance the platform functionally and create stability.
• Interface with multiple stakeholders to understand the business and customer ask.
• Actively participate in feature development and enhancements.
• Gain domain knowledge and solve complex problems related to scalability and throughput.
• Participate in design discussions and provide valuable insights.
• Provide solutions and fixes to issues and bugs reported against the platform.

What you'll need

• 1+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree, or any equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 1-4 years of experience in software development.
• Solid understanding of algorithms and data structures.
• Knowledge of object oriented design, design patterns and multi-threaded programming.
• Strong OOP skills, with ability to analyse requirements and transform them into scalable software designs.
• Experience with HTTP and REST APIs, and competent designing and building web services/microservices in a commercial setting.
• Competent in design/implementation for reliability, availability, scalability and performance.
• Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Hands-on Java programming expertise (Core Java, J2EE, Spring framework).
• Hands-on building RESTful services.
• Follow coding and design best practices.
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL solutions, with clear understanding of the pros and cons of relational and free-form databases.
• Knowledge and particular interest in issues related to large-scale distributed stream processing and real-time computation systems.
• Ability to determine the impact of architectural solutions and come up with recommendations.
• Ability to design, architect and build data systems and pipelines.
• Ability to navigate org boundaries and work fairly independently with limited handholding.
• Exhibit one-team behaviour and work with several stakeholders and team members cohesively.
• Experience in pair programming with AI.
• Exposure to working with multiple stakeholders, cross-functional team members, and iterative development methodologies, with customer empathy and business understanding.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
• Work mode: hybrid, with 3 days in the office and 2 days at the PayPal office or home workspace.
• Travel: 0%.