Senior Software Engineer, Backend Java

About the position

You will work intimately with web and mobile app API clients, product, and platform teams to create secure, reliable APIs that enable users to send money abroad with Xoom, a PayPal product. You will actively be deploying new applications, diagnosing runtime systems, and putting that knowledge to use making the next generation of APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design, code, test and deploy features/functions delivered via applications and services.
• Collaborate frequently with other developers to design and implement the required solutions.
• Partner with product managers to deliver high quality solutions on time.
• Participate in formal and informal code reviews to ensure code quality.
• Actively contribute to our automated test suite to enable speedy and reliable continuous integration.
• Leverage the latest observability tools to monitor our applications and services are highly available and reliable.
• Be a champion of high-performance, secure, and reliable software services.
• Work with product and design teams to develop new ideas and explore new opportunities to foster innovation.
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with all non-technical stakeholders (Product, Design, Business, etc)

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical discipline (or equivalent experience of 6+ years).
• Proficient in back-end development using Java EE technologies (e.g. Java language, application servers, servlet containers, Docker).
• Experience with HTTP, REST API's and competent designing and building web services/microservices in a commercial setting.
• Experience with observability tools for monitoring and debugging live applications.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment
• Employee shares options
• Health and life insurance
• Annual performance bonus
• Equity