Software Engineer 3

PayPal PayPal · Fintech · Austin, TX +1 · Software Engineering

Software Engineer 3 at PayPal in Austin, TX, responsible for analyzing software product requirements, transforming them into scalable technical designs, optimizing performance, building scalable applications and APIs, developing automated tests, and maintaining release processes. The role involves designing and coding solutions, evaluating production systems, designing user interfaces, driving architecture discussions, and participating in design and code reviews. Requires a Master's degree in Computer Science or related field with two years of experience, or a Bachelor's degree with five years of experience. Specific skills include Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs, frontend development (JavaScript, JQuery, AngularJS, HTML, CSS), AWS, CI/CD (Jenkins, Maven), Docker, database administration (NoSQL, IBM DB2), Object-Oriented Design, Functional Programming, and distributed systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Analyze software product requirements and transform them into scalable technical designs using test-driven development and agile methodologies.
  2. Optimize the performance settings and threading model for complex software service stacks and complex fault tolerance and recovery scenarios.
  3. Build fast and scalable applications, interactive and dynamic web pages, and enhanced Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to extract data from multiple sources.
  4. Develop automated tests and deliver high-quality software code to production within a short development cycle in the continuous integration and delivery environment.
  5. Maintain and release processes for Mobile API components, library updates, and security practices.

Skills

Required

  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • Microservices architecture
  • REST APIs
  • JavaScript
  • JQuery
  • AngularJS
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • AWS
  • Jenkins
  • Maven
  • Docker
  • NoSQL databases
  • IBM DB2
  • Object-Oriented Design
  • Functional Programming
  • Distributed systems