Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Java)

PayPal; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

PayPal is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to strengthen fraud detection and risk management systems that safeguard customers worldwide. You will design, build, and support risk services used across PayPal’s global platform, applying AI, ML, and data science to real business problems.

Join a team delivering scalable, highly available risk applications and collaborating with product, design, and analytics to shape the technical direction and drive improvements.

Qualifications

• 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Proficiency in Java EE technologies.
• Strong communication skills and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and test features for risk applications.
• Work with product managers in an agile setting to deliver high-quality solutions on time.
• Collaborate with product, design, and analytics teams to explore ideas and opportunities.
• Maintain high availability and reliability of services.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to automated tests.
• Communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Backend development

Java EE

Communication skills

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related

Tools

Java EE stack

Job description

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

Meet our team The Payments Risk Engineering team is responsible for fraud detection and risk management at PayPal. We design, build, and support the services that are called on every money movement transaction between PayPal and its users and partners. Our solutions scale across millions of interactions, integrate with other APIs in real time, and deliver high availability and configurability to the business. We stay current with advances in technology and science and tie them back to business needs.

What you need to know about the role

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to strengthen the risk prevention and mitigation systems that protect PayPal and its customers from fraud. Our team owns fraud detection, and risk management services across PayPal globally. These services are called on every interaction between users, partners, and PayPal. We also apply advances in AI, machine learning, and data science to real business problems.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

Delivers complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) (design, implementation, testing, delivery and operations), based on definitions from more senior roles. Advises immediate management on project-level issues Guides junior engineers Operates with little day-to-day supervision, making technical decisions based on knowledge of internal conventions and industry best practices Applies knowledge of technical best practices in making decisions.

Minimum Qualifications

3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications

Your way to impact

• Protect customers and PayPal by building real-time risk systems that scale across millions of transactions.
• Keep payments seamless for good users while stopping fraud, with services that are highly available, reliable, and configurable.
• Shape the technical direction of the team by challenging the status quo, bringing fresh ideas, and championing clean, scalable engineering practices.
• Reduce technical debt and raise the quality bar for software and the team.

Your day to day

• Design, develop, and test features and services for our risk applications.
• Work with product managers in an agile setting to deliver high-quality solutions on time.
• Partner with developers, product, design, and analytics teams to explore new ideas and opportunities.
• Work with operations teams to keep services highly available and reliable.
• Take part in code reviews to maintain code quality.
• Contribute to our automated test suite to enable fast, reliable continuous integration.
• Communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders.
• Be proactive: anticipate issues and handle them before they escape.

What do you need to bring

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical discipline with 4-6 years of experience.
• Strong applied experience: you’ve built, broken, and rebuilt software, and you know how to ship real-world products.
• Proficiency in back-end development with Java EE technologies (Java, application servers, servlet containers, JMS, JPA).
• Strong communication skills.