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

Job Summary

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with strong experience in Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices architecture. Candidates with server-side Kotlin development experience are highly preferred. Strong software engineering fundamentals, REST API development expertise, and experience building enterprise-scale applications are essential.

The ideal candidate should be passionate about clean code, testing, scalability, and product/platform engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend applications using Java and/or Kotlin.
• Build and enhance RESTful APIs and microservices-based applications.
• Develop high-performance, secure, and reliable enterprise applications.
• Participate in system design, architecture discussions, and technical decision-making.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following industry best practices.
• Implement and maintain automated unit tests, integration tests, and other testing strategies.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and DevOps teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Troubleshoot production issues and optimize application performance.
• Mentor junior developers and contribute to engineering excellence initiatives.

Required Skills

• 6–8+ years of backend development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java.
• Experience with server-side Kotlin (preferred) or willingness to learn and work extensively in Kotlin.
• Hands-on experience with Spring Boot and Microservices architecture.
• Strong experience developing REST APIs.
• Experience building enterprise-grade applications.
• Good understanding of software design patterns and object-oriented programming principles.
• Strong knowledge of unit testing frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, or equivalent.
• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and version control systems such as Git.
• Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our passionate team. If you have a strong background in backend development, a track record of delivering scalable and reliable solutions, and are eager to contribute to complex projects, we would love to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop robust, high-performance backend solutions using Python and related technologies.
• Lead the architecture and design discussions for major backend components and services.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze software requirements.
• Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers, fostering their technical growth.
• Review code and provide constructive feedback to ensure code quality and adherence to best practices.
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks, scalability challenges, and technical issues.
• Participate in sprint planning, task estimation, and agile development processes.
• Keep up-to-date with industry trends, tools, and best practices to continuously improve our backend systems.
• Drive the adoption of coding standards, design patterns, and engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers to ensure seamless integration between frontend and backend components.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Minimum of 4 years of professional experience in backend development.
• Strong proficiency in Python and backend frameworks like Django and Flask.
• In-depth knowledge of database systems, both relational (MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, etc. ).
• Proven track record of designing and developing scalable and maintainable backend services.
• Experience with RESTful API design and best practices.
• Solid understanding of software architecture, design principles, and software development lifecycle.
• Previous experience leading or mentoring engineers is a strong plus.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude towards challenges.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e. g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization (Docker) is a plus.

Responsibilities: 

• Develop backend systems for our first product
• Build reliable, secure and performant backend systems
• Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team
• Mentor and provide feedback to teammates

Requirements:

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Deep and wide knowledge of Java ecosystem
• Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure and performant
• Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests
• Good intuition for REST API design
• Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling
• Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems
• Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimizing SQL queries

Bonus:

• Understanding of domain-driven design concepts like ubiquitous language, bounded contexts, aggregates and domain events
• Know how to use test driven development as a design tool
• Good intuition for the principles underlying object-orientation, particularly encapsulation
• Understand the importance of immutability and of reducing the state-space of objects
• Know how to refactor large codebases safely
• Seek to identify key underlying ideas and use those as building blocks before reaching for shiny new tools

About OneAssist
OneAssist is founded with a vision to provide a ubiquitous platform for assistance & protection services to customers.

A leader in Assistance and Protection products across Home Appliances, Personal Electronics, Physical and Mobile Wallets, OneAssist is a Technology-led organization. It has created a horizontal Assitance and Protection platform powered by Technology, Analytics and Data Science.

OneAssist wants to provide consumers the convenience of availing assistance and protection products through digital touch points- Mobile App, website, Voice and chat.

Founded in 2011, OneAssist has been well funded by Marquee investors, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Assurant Solutions and Trifecta Capital with total cumulative funding of $33.2 Million. The latest Series C funding of &17.5 Million was raised in 2017.

Some of our significant partnerships are with Airtel, HDFC, HomeCredit, Pinelabs, InstaCash and more.

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Job Description:

• Write maintainable/scalable/efficient code.
• Design and architect technical solutions for the developer community at OneAssist Work in a cross-functional team, collaborating with peers during the entire SDLC.
• Follow coding standards, code reviews etc. Follow scrum sprint cycles and commitment to deadlines.

Traits we are looking for in you: 3+ years experience developing large scale customer facing internet systems Strong problem-solving skills.

• Hands-on experience in coding capability in desired technology Solid experience in Java/J2EE frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Hibernate.
• Strong Experience with Microservices, RESTful Web services, OOPs concepts.
• Nice to have knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins and CI/CD Knowledge
• Strong background in designing or extending existing test frameworks such as Junit Experience with version control systems such as Git. Good understanding of application security (authentication, authorization, web security etc.)

Job Description

Viaan Industries Limited is looking for a Software Developer who is motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming.The ideal candidate for this position will have a broad technical skill set and extensive experience in this industry. As a result, the candidate should be able to design, develop, test and deploy the products required for the company's needs. Moreover, the candidate should be able to work with other developers in determining product strategy.

Responsibilities

- Own the product : Design, Develop & Deploy

- Ensure Quality & sustainability of the architecture

- Obsess about code quality, automated testing, continuous integration, code reviews, and documentation

- Provide quick & creative solutions for day-to-day operational issues

- Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end.

- Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.

Required Skills

- Proficient in Server Side Programming Languages :- PHP (Laravel)

- Proficient in design & architecting scalable products.

- Must have hands on experience in Ajax, Jquery.

- Database knowledge – MongoDb.

- Knowledge of Development Tools Bitbucket, Git, CI/CD with BitBucket and JIRA

- Web Server technologies:- Apache, Nginx

- Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and system design

- Expert in HTTP terminologies such as Request/Response cycle, content negotiation, CORS etc

- Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes

- Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability

- Implementation of security and data protection

- Setup and administration of backups

- Obsess about code quality, automated testing, continuous integration, code reviews, and documentation.

- Exposure to microservices architecture/ API concepts would be an added advantage.

- Good organizational and time-management skills

Good To Have

- Knowledge of NodeJs, Angular

- Familiarity with AWS products - Beanstalk, Elb, ECS, EC2, SNS, SQS, S3, RDS, etc.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science / engineering