Software Engineer, Backend Java

Overview

The Company Pay Pal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. We connect hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers in approximately 200 markets and provide proprietary payment solutions that enable completion of payments on our platform. We offer flexible funding options and aim to simplify cross-border trade while managing risk and enabling growth.

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We live by Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness to ensure we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do.

This job acts as a project leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers, determining technical tasks, and improving existing structures and processes. It involves making technical decisions, collaborating with management to set standards, and representing the company to external partners.

• Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system
• Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow
• Actions result in the achievement of customer, operational, program or service objectives
• Proactively improves existing structures & processes
• Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities (time, quality, complexity risk) to identify optimal solutions to problems
• Notices patterns and condenses repetition into densely meaningful generalized solutions
• Collaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor
• Trusted to represent Pay Pal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations

• 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Meet Your Team

Core Platforms builds and delivers Pay Pal’s foundational capabilities across compliance, privacy, identity, risk, customer servicing, and shared platform services that protect, engage, and power Pay Pal’s global ecosystem.

Your way to impact

At Pay Pal, Backend Software Engineers are the architects of our global payment platform. You ll design, develop, and optimize core systems that power millions of transactions daily, directly impacting our customers  experiences and our company s success.

Your day-to-day

As a Software Engineer, Backend Java, you ll define the technical roadmap and drive innovation. You ll collaborate with product and engineering leadership to deliver impactful solutions.

• Strong analytical skills to analyze requirements and transform into scalable software designs.
• Strong advocate of code craftsmanship, good coding standards and use of tools that will improve the quality of the delivered code
• Define and execute the backend technology strategy.
• Drive innovation and experimentation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver business outcomes

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of backend development experience.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language (Java).
• Expert in back-end development using Java EE technologies (e.g. Java language, application servers, servlet containers, JMS, JPA, Spring MVC, Hibernate).
• Leadership in designing and architecting scalable backend systems with a focus on cloud-native solutions, microservices, and serverless architectures.
• Expertise in architecting and developing large-scale backend systems using Java EE, with extensive experience in Spring MVC or Hibernate.
• Proven ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams, drive technical roadmaps, and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Expertise in designing and implementing fault-tolerant systems with a focus on high availability and disaster recovery.
• Experience with advanced security practices, including secure coding, encryption, and access control.
• Proven ability to influence and mentor engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Deep expertise in backend technologies and architecture.