Software Engineer 2 at PayPal in Scottsdale, AZ

Responsibilities Include:

• As a member of the team, lead a component design/development, work with the development and big data teams to design scalable big data platform framework and services.
• Identify, design and build automated test frameworks to enable validation of the solution for consistency, accuracy and repeatability @scale and TTM.
• Ability to prototype ideas and demonstrate pros and cons and make recommendations using demos and slides.
• Ability to use data to drive products and decisions. Be able to explain complex technical concepts to management, product managers, support, and other engineers.
• Collaborate with management to define and set standards for engineering rigor and help cultivate the culture in the team.
• Contribute to innovation with a passion for delivering leading edge Big Data Lake solutions to our customers.
• Good team player, able to effectively work across multiple teams on solutions that have complex dependencies and requirements in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to assess new technologies and make pragmatic choices that points towards our long-term vision.
• Pro-active response in identifying and troubleshooting integration or technical issues.
• Great verbal, communication and follow through skills.

Job Qualifications:

• Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related field with a minimum of 2+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Hands on experience with Big Data open-source technologies such as Hadoop, HBase, Spark, Kafka and Elastic Search / Solr is preferred
• 2+ years solid programming experience in languages like Java or Scala or Python or equivalent.
• Experience with SQL and relational database systems like Oracle, PostgreSQL or MySQL is preferable
• Experience building RESTful API’s is a plus.
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g., HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
• Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g., C#, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g., Angular, React, Node.js)
• Experience with cloud native technologies is a plus
• Hands on experience with engineering developer tools - GIT, Dockerization, Continuous Integration frameworks etc.
• Passionate about Software Quality and ensuring that Secure Development Lifecycle best practices are followed
• Ability to adapt to new development environments, changing business requirements and learning new systems highly desired.
• Good team player, strong communication skills and able to effectively work across multiple teams on solutions that have complex dependencies and requirements in a fast-paced environment
• Experience working in agile software development model is a plus
• Experience with Tableau or other visualization tools is a plus
• Experience with open-source contribution is a plus