Lead Software Engineer (JavaJ2EE)

The Company

PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. 

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.

We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards.  Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade. 

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day.  We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.

Job Description Summary:

What you need to know about the role:
We are looking for a strong technologist  who has proven experience building scalable enterprise applications. Someone who is passionate to solve large scale highly complex computer engineering problems, in a repeatable and maintainable way.  Should have excellent verbal and written communication skills
Meet our Team:
The Notifications Central Team is responsible for delivering 200MN + notifications a day across multiple channels like SMS, Email, Whatsapp, Push Notifications etc. This team work on complex distributed system to manage and deliver highly scalable product at large. Having extreme ownership, collaboration, execution and having lot of fun at work defines the team.

Job Description:

Your way to impact:

In this role you will be responsible for driving key customer engagement and enable business value for the company. You will also be responsible for ensuring platform reliability and modernization efforts or future scaling needs of building Notifications Platform for all communication needs at PayPal. 

Your day to day :

• Work within a team of highly talented engineers, product and architect to design and develop a highly scalable and configurable Location Services Platform. 

• Being involved in design meetings to propose, discuss and refine new features and functionality. 

• The candidate must have significant business knowledge and technical expertise in application design and architecture, as well as knowledge of related domains of technical architectures (network, security, and infrastructure engineering), information architectures, and data architectures. 

• Maintain and enhance the existing architectural documentations and create the new one as needed 

• The candidate needs to be involved in all aspects of the project life cycle, from the initial kick-off through the requirements analysis, design and implementation. 

• The candidate must be a self- starter, work independently or as a team member, and have strong communication skills in interfacing with business partners and the Technology. Also responsible for communicating to others on technical standards, principles, methodology and trends. 

• The candidate must be proactive and anticipate/handle issues before they blow-up. 

• Exhibit a strong backbone and challenge the status quo when needed 

• Expected to mentor and coach less experienced engineers. 

What do you need to bring:

• Should have atleast 9+ years of overall experience
• Expert in back-end development using Java EE technologies (e.g. Java language, application servers, JMS, JPA, Spring MVC, Hibernate). 

• Strong OOP skills, with ability to analyse requirements and transform into scalable software designs. 

• Experience with HTTP, REST API's and competent designing and building web services/microservices in a commercial setting. 

• Cognizant of SQL and other/NoSQL/modern database and storage technologies. Desired understanding of Oracle, JDBC and ORM frameworks (e.g. Hibernate). 

• Experience with Design Patterns, MVC and frameworks (e.g. Spring). 

• 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 be a strong advocate of code craftsmanship, good coding standards and use of tools that will improve the quality of the delivered code 

• Excellent communication and writing skills 

• Demonstrate a high level of curiosity, passion for technology, pride of ownership and strive for excellence 

• Solid understanding of web & mobile applications stack, SOA & Message Queues 

• Experience with GraphQL, Java Script and NodeJs and Kotlin is a plus 

Personal Traits: 

• Significant exposure and experience in dealing with multiple use cases and across domains.  

• Technical thought leadership, ability to evaluate technology choices for strategic initiative and setting the technology vision for the team 

• Proven experience in leading a team of senior engineers  

• Having a knack of customer empathy 

• Good Product and Business acumen is an added plus 

• Exposure and participation in tech events, hackathons, contributions to open source, authoring of blogs and active participation in online tech forums is a plus. 

• Support Hiring, managing conflicts, extreme ownership and accountability are great to have skills. 

Additional Job Description:

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

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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 benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.

We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

Who We Are:

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Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion 

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.  In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.  If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at talentaccommodations@paypal.com.  

Belonging at PayPal: 

Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.

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