Sr Software Engineer

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The Company PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers. We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards. Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade. Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do - and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities. Job Summary: Job Description: PayPal, Inc. seeks Sr Software Engineer in Austin, TX Job Duties: Collaborate with engineers and managers to define and refine requirements for user stories/tasks on the scrum board, utilizing Jira by Atlassian for agile lifecycle management. Develop solutions that meet specified requirements, focusing on design efficiency and effectiveness. Write clean, maintainable code to implement solutions, conducting both manual and automated testing. Utilize a variety of tools and frameworks including JavaScript, Node.js, Express.js, Kraken.js, Apollo GraphQL, Visual Studio Code, GitHub, and Jenkins. Deploy periodic releases and monitor application performance and traffic to identify and address potential issues and customer interaction failures. Utilize observability tools such as Splunk, DataDog, and Kibana. Collaborate within cross-functional teams, participating in meetings to diagnose and prioritize bug fixes and production defects. Contribute to documentation on features, designs, discoveries, and platform knowledge in Confluence Cloud by Atlassian. Partial telecommuting permitted from within a commutable distance. Minimum Requirements: Master's degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Engineering, or a closely related field plus two years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation. Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Engineering or a closely related field plus five years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation. Special Skill Requirements: 1. Developing and maintaining web applications using JavaScript, Node.js and JavaScript tooling (1 year) 2. Debugging issues and developing features for enterprise Java applications built using the Spring Framework (2 years) 3. Writing code to build and consume REST APIs based on OpenAPI specifications (2 years) 4. Writing Unix shell commands and scripts to build automation tools to aid software development and testing (2 years) 5. Maintaining software projects using Git for version control and package management tools like NPM, Maven and JFrog Artifactory (2 years) 6. Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins (2 years) 7. Maintaining good code quality using static analysis tools like Sonar (2 years) 8. Monitoring software system health using observability tools like Splunk adhering to OpenTelemetry standards (2 years) 9. Writing and refactoring code using the principles and techniques of the Object-Oriented Design paradigm (2 years) 10. Designing and implementing features for robust, scalable & fault-tolerant distributed software systems and maintaining them (2 years) Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications : EOE, including disability/vets. The b