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Software Engineer, Back End
PayPal (company site, opens in a new tab)1–3 yrsBengaluruOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 16–28 LPA
Posted 17h ago
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About This Role
- Build and maintain Java backend services powering PayPal POS features including checkout, commerce services, identity, payments, and payouts.
- Take ownership of specific services within Commerce & Checkout, Identity & Backbook, or Money Movement areas, including on-call responsibilities.
- Improve system reliability by understanding event-driven system failure modes and creating runbooks for incident management.
Minimum Requirements
- 1 to 3 years of software engineering experience with strong Java and object-oriented design skills.
- Experience developing and operating RESTful services using AWS technologies (e.g., ECS/Fargate, SQS/SNS, RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL).
- Understanding of concurrency, testing, debugging distributed and event-driven systems (idempotency, ordering, retries, eventual consistency).
- Work Experience Required: 1+ years relevant; Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education/experience combination. Notice period: Not explicitly mentioned in the JD.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Has hands-on experience owning backend microservices in payment, fintech, or similarly regulated domains.
- Demonstrates operational ownership by managing on-call duties, incident response, and system reliability improvements.
- Comfortable collaborating across distributed teams (Bangalore and Sweden) and documenting technical decisions and runbooks.