Sr Software Engineer

Overview

Senior Software Engineer on the Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) Rule Operations Tools team, building tools and services that make rule development and operations faster, safer and more reliable across Risk, Credit and Fraud.

What you'll do

• Deliver complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC): design, implementation, testing, delivery and operations, based on definitions from more senior roles.
• Work across the full rule lifecycle, including authoring, simulation, access management, releases, rollbacks and monitoring.
• Partner with EDM platform engineering, strategy teams and SRE.
• Advise immediate management on project-level issues.
• Guide junior engineers.
• Operate with little day-to-day supervision, making technical decisions based on knowledge of internal conventions and industry best practices.
• Apply knowledge of technical best practices in making decisions.

What you'll need

• 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree, OR any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Nice to have

• Strong proficiency in Java; experience building backend services and APIs.
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and relational/NoSQL data stores.
• Familiarity with rule engines, decisioning platforms, or workflow/business-logic tooling.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid understanding of access control (RBAC) concepts, testing/simulation frameworks, and release management practices.
• Strong debugging and analytical skills; comfort operating in a high-reliability, production-critical environment.
• Good collaboration and communication skills to work across strategy, platform and SRE stakeholders.

Details

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