Sr Software Engineer - Backend Java

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 Summary:

he GFCI team supports PayPal’s SAR and Global Investigations business functions by delivering technology that enables regulatory compliance, improves investigator efficiency, and strengthens the company’s ability to detect, review, and report suspicious activity. The team’s objectives are centered on building scalable platforms, advancing automation, improving data availability and workflow usability, and ensuring timely, accurate support for financial crime operations.

Key challenges include evolving compliance expectations, complex cross-system integration, balancing modernization with ongoing run-the-business commitments, and maintaining speed, quality, and control in a highly regulated environment.

Job Description:

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:

Additional Responsibilities

• Design, development, and testing of features/functions delivered via applications and services.
• Collaborating with peers and seniors both within their team and across the organization.
• Working with product managers using agile methodologies to deliver high quality solutions on time.
• Collaborate frequently with other developers to design and implement the required solutions.
• Work with product and design teams to develop new ideas and explore new opportunities.
• Working with operations teams to ensure your applications and services are highly available and reliable.
• Participate in formal and informal code reviews to ensure code quality.
• Be a champion of high-performance, secure, and reliable software services.
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with all non-technical stakeholders (Product, Design, Analytics, etc.)
• Actively contribute to our automated test suite to enable speedy and reliable continuous integration.

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