Software Engineer, Full Stack Developer, Backend Developer

Job Summary

Software Engineer – Austin, TX

As part of Pay Pal Data Services, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pay Pal, this role focuses on designing, developing, testing, and maintaining complex, high‑throughput distributed software applications on our web platform.

• Define, design, and implement complex, multi‑tier distributed software applications.
• Develop high‑throughput back‑end software systems using Java, Type Script, Ruby, etc.
• Build sustainable, automated software processes and pipelines to support technical debt remediation for the web platform frameworks and fleet of software applications.
• Interface with web platform engineering and other platform software application teams to provide a seamless experience for web engineers during support.
• Build performance efficient, highly scalable, configurable, and available software applications and systems.
• Segment and design technical system layers to support componentized and layered software application development, including business logic and database component repository access.
• Identify and fix performance, scalability, and other software live issues in a time‑critical environment; recommend risk reduction.
• Collaborate with managers, product management, quality analysts, and operations teams to develop innovative technical solutions that meet market needs and adhere to software development goals.
• Design and implement user interfaces using frontend frameworks to create engaging and intuitive web software applications; optimize UI performance and ensure accessibility.
• Integrate APIs into the frontend to fetch and manipulate data; collaborate with backend engineers on API design.
• Monitor and support technical requests for technology use cases.
• Partial telecommuting permitted from within a commutable distance.

• Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a closely related field.
• At least one year of experience in a related occupation or job offered.

• Experience developing, testing, and maintaining software components on AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS).
• On‑call incident management using monitoring tools and logs and collaborating to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
• Backend development in Java; experience with Type Script and Ruby.
• Developing web applications with JavaScript, jQuery, Angular
  
  JS (migration from jQuery to Angular).
• Designing responsive web interfaces using HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
• Developing complex SQL stored procedures, triggers, Hive queries, PL/SQL functions to optimize performance.
• Designing and building ETL pipelines using SQL, AWS, and big data technologies.
• Designing distributed systems using Docker and microservices architecture.
• Applying object‑oriented principles in Java.
• Implementing unit, integration, and end‑to‑end testing using frameworks such as Mocha and Jest.

Comprehensive, choice‑based programs that support physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing; generous paid time off; healthcare coverage for employees and families; resources for financial security and mental health support.

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.