PayPal - Member of Technical Staff II/Architect - Java/Python/GoLang

👉 Job Title: Backend Developer

🌟 Experience: 5-7 Years

💡Location: Bangalore

👉 Notice Period :- Immediate Joiners

💡 Work Mode - 5 Days work from Office

( Candidate Serving notice period are preffered)

Role Summary

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join the Platform Implementation Team, responsible for building scalable, secure, and high-performance backend systems for a multi-cloud Data & AI platform. You will design microservices, develop REST APIs, and enable seamless data integration across enterprise systems like CRM and ERP.

💫 Key Responsibilities

✅ Design and develop scalable microservices and RESTful APIs

✅ Build event-driven architectures for asynchronous processing

✅ Integrate backend systems with cloud platforms (GCP/Azure)

✅ Ensure secure, reliable, and optimized data handling

✅ Collaborate with cross-functional teams (UI, Data, Platform)

✅ Follow best practices in coding, testing, CI/CD, and containerization

💫 Mandatory Skills (Top 3)

✅ Strong backend programming experience (Python / Node.js / Java)

✅ Expertise in API development & Microservices architecture

✅ Hands-on experience with Cloud platforms (GCP or Azure)

Role & Responsibilities

Design, develop, and implement high-quality software solutions for payment processing.

Maintain a regular release cadence and manage the product backlog.

Ensure timely and lossless communication across teams.

Uphold engineering values and best practices.

Collaborate with international teams to ensure successful product development and delivery.

Ideal Candidate

A strong technical background in software engineering and architecture, with experience in modern programming language

Ability to work independently with very little direction, taking full ownership of projects.

Identifying blind spots, anticipate challenges, and prioritize work effectively

Exceptional communication and organizational skills.

A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

8+ years of relevant experience preferred

Proficiency using Python, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS

Experience with Distributed Task Queues such as Celery and RabbitMQ is preferred.

Experience with RDBMS/SQL is also preferred.

Responsibilities:

● Design, develop, test, and maintain software applications using Java technologies.

● Implement robust solutions using Spring MVC, Spring Boot, and Hibernate frameworks.

● Develop and optimize database operations with MySQL.

● Analyze and solve complex problems by applying knowledge of data structures and algorithms

Requirement -

Programming Languages & Technologies: Strong knowledge of Java (Core Java, Java 8+).

● Frameworks: Proficiency in Spring MVC, Spring Boot, and Hibernate. ● Algorithms and Data Structures: Good understanding and practical application of DSA concepts.

● Databases: Experience with MySQL – writing queries, stored procedures, and performance tuning.

● Version Control Systems: Experience with tools like Gi

Looking for candidates only with tier 1 colleges OR have experience in a product-based company.

Desired Skills :

● Experience with data modeling and SQL/NoSQL databases

● Experience with distributed systems and microservices

● Good experience in working with any of Java/SpringBoot, GoLang or NodeJS

● Excellent problem solving and debugging skills

● Passionate about the experience of software engineering as much as the output

● A strong sense of ownership

● Ability to communicate your ideas and approach to solving problems with clarity

Responsibilities:

• Build scalable, service oriented web applications from scratch for technology products for European market.
• Maintain these applications for accuracy and high availability.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve system designs, architecture and implementation standards
• Participate with founding, business and product teams in discussions on how to build and launch new modules.
• Collaborate across functions and own the planning, estimation and execution for parts of the product.
• Start as an individual contributor but stay ready to build and mentor a small team of up to 5 engineers over the coming months and years.
• Contribute in hiring highly ambitious engineers as the team grows.
• Being among the first people on the engineering team, be a culture driver.

Requirements:

• Experience of architecting and building products/business critical backend applications using different MVC frameworks.
• Experience with microservices.
• Experience of building and maintaining scalable applications using Node.js/MEAN stack.
• Experience of deploying and maintaining web applications.
• Experience with non relational databases like MongoDB.
• Understanding of relational databases like MySQL.
• Familiarity with REST APIs and stress testing tools.
• Good communication skills.

• Exposure in building polyglot applications.
• Exposure for devops and related processes, preferably GCP.
• Knowledge of components in scalable solutions i. e. database partitions, message brokers, background processing.
• Exposure to basic frontend technologies to speed up collaboration with the frontend team.

• Development & maintenance of Cleartrip’s product lines
• Involved in entire lifecycle including analysis, development, fixing, and monitoring of issues on the assigned Cleartrip product lines
• Unit test cases – Review and writing

• 2+ years of Product Development experience
• Java, Spring Framework preferred
• Solid experience with databases (Oracle/MySQL) – a must
• Excellent OO and design skills
• Experience with Test Driven Development within a continuous Integration environment (Lunt, CruiseControl, etc)

• BE/B.Tech Computer Science Personality Traits/Attributes:
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills – team player & desires to works closely with teammates, QA & product teams
• Problem-solving skills – Ability to research, analyze & find solutions independently.

• Have architected /designed at least 2-3 systems/products of enterprise scale from scratch.
• Have banking and Financial service background and preferably worked in Mobile/Digital platform design and development. Payments /OLTP preferred.
• Should have experience of 20+ years with J2ee, REST, Microservice, API, Messaging, Encryption, security, NLP, ML background.
• Have 7+yrs of experience in Architecture field, designing and end to end not from consulting Architecture.
• Responsible for design, architecture, and delivery of a feature or component/product with the highest quality with high-level directions from architects
• Driving innovations in the platform constantly & remaining ahead of the curve
• Development and testing of features/functions delivered via applications and services.
• Prototype ideas quickly using cutting edge technologies.
• Collaborating with peers and Architects both within their team and across the organization to deliver end-to-end products & features
• Working with product managers using agile methodologies to deliver high quality solutions on time
• Provide functional, design, and code reviews in related areas of expertise with-in team and cross-team.
• Working with operations teams to ensure your applications and services are highly available and reliable
• Mentoring junior engineers in the team both in the technical as well as on the product side
• Define and devise processes, tools and methodologies to achieve excellence in software development, testing and deployment, and in the management of the Centre.
• Good experience in working with any of the programming languages like PHP, Python, Django, Golang, Java, C++
• Experience developing applications that use high volume of data along with experience building applications on top of RESTful APIs.
• Solid knowledge of JAVA, J2EE, data stream, processing, big data etc.
• Comfortable with writing unit tests using JUnit
• Worked with Git and are comfortable with Merge/Rebase concepts.
• Worked with tools such as Eclipse, WebStorm, Ant, Maven, Jenkins, Sonar, JSLint, Grunt and App Servers such as Tomcat, Jboss.
• Solid knowledge of algorithms, design patterns, and componentization approaches.
• Experience and knowledge of open source software, frameworks and broader cutting-edge technologies.
• Experience in software design patterns, problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to determine impact of architectural solutions and recommendations.
• Must have experience in justification of technology solutions to business leaders.
• Experience in refactoring existing codebase and in understanding existing implementations to decide to refactor or rewrite.
• Know how to identify Performance bottlenecks and use good coding patterns to avoid them in the first place.
• Have strong attention to detail.
• Ability to operate effectively both independently as well and within a team using Agile methodology.
• Proven problem-solving and interpersonal communication skills.
• Knowledge of payment domain will be an added advantage

Qualifications

• BE/BTech/ME/MTech in EE/CS or an equivalent qualification.
• 20+yrs of Experience.
• Minimum 12+years of hands on Java programming experience.

• 5+ years experience
• Previously managed a team
• Built & managed backend systems from scratch previously.
• Lead the core backend engineering team, including mentoring, coaching, architecture, devops, code review and software infrastructure
• Should be more proficient with Django.
• Work with the executive team to shape and execute the product roadmap
• Direct our team environment to achieve sprint deliverables and acceptance criteria
• Design and monitor metrics to assess product and infrastructure performance
• Hire, build and shape the team