Description

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Essential Responsibilities:

- Delivers complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) (design, implementation, testing, delivery and operations), based on definitions from more senior roles.
- Advises immediate management on project-level issues
- Guides junior engineers
- Operates with little day-to-day supervision, making technical decisions based on knowledge of internal conventions and industry best practices
- Applies knowledge of technical best practices in making decisions

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 Pay Pal 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.

Subsidiary:

Pay Pal

Travel Percent:

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For the majority of employees, Pay Pal'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 Pay Pal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

Our Benefits:

At Pay Pal,



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 versatile, 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.

Who We Are:

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Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Pay Pal 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, Pay Pal 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 .

Belonging at Pay Pal:

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 Pay Pal 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 Pay Pal.

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please .

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don’t hesitate to apply.

📌 Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Java) (India)
🏢 Paypal
📍 India