Braintree Software Engineer

At PayPal, we’re laser focused on creating better ways for consumers and merchants to pay and get paid. Putting customers’ needs first, coupled with a “challenger” mindset, we’re redefining the payments category through product, marketing, and service delivery innovation. PayPal is not for everyone.

We are creating a world where ‘payments’ is synonymous with PayPal\. The PayPal Platform is a suite of web services, which are used by internal and external developers to enable payments anytime, anywhere and anyway\. The Platform processes billions of requests each month, and enables PayPal and its partners to rapidly innovate on new payment scenarios and enable new experiences\. Therefore, the evolution of the Platform is integral to PayPal’s long\-term strategy\.As an engineer in our development team you will be responsible for the development and delivery of the web services supporting PayPal user experiences on various channels \(web, mobile, etc\.\), as well as integrations with partners\. You will work closely with product and experience and/or integration teams to understand the developer needs and deliver the API that meets their needs

**Essential Job Expectations** * Experience in developing software for distributed systems with the high performance, scalability and availability * Own and drive development and delivery of features in the API * Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers within the team * Familiar and comfortable with the technologies, the tradeoffs, and the design patterns emerging in web services * Thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. You have a bias towards action and results

* 6+ years software development experience * BS in Computer Science or related degree required. MS preferred * Experience in developing high performance, scalable and available web services using J2EE and frameworks such as Apache CXF and Jersey * Knowledge of object-oriented design and design patterns, and programming skills * Experience in designing, developing and delivering software and/or platforms used by other developers, * Good understanding of web services and SOA related standards like REST/OAuth/JSON and SOAP/WSDL. * Excellent knowledge of programming languages, especially Java and Node.js * Excellent communication and writing skills