Senior Java Backend Engineer bei Prodapt

Prodapt is the largest and fastest-growing specialized player in the Connectedness industry, recognized by Gartner as a Large, Telecom-Native, Regional IT Service Provider across North America, Europe and Latin America. With its singular focus on the domain, Prodapt has built deep expertise in the most transformative technologies that connect our world. Prodapt is a trusted partner for enterprises across all layers of the Connectedness vertical. Prodapt designs, configures, and operates solutions across their digital landscape, network infrastructure, and business operations – and craft experiences that delight their customers. Today, Prodapt’s clients connect 1.1 billion people and 5.4 billion devices, and are among the largest telecom, media, and internet firms in the world. Prodapt works with Google, Amazon, Verizon, Vodafone, Liberty Global, Liberty Latin America, Claro, Lumen, Windstream, Rogers, Telus, KPN, Virgin Media, British Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Adtran, Samsung, and many more. A “Great Place To Work® Certified™” company, Prodapt employs over 6,000 technology and domain experts in 30+ countries across North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Prodapt is part of the 130-year-old business conglomerate The Jhaver Group, which employs over 30,000 people across 80+ locations globally.

We are looking for a strong backend Senior Software Engineer with 6+ years experience to join us in shaping the future of pricing and building new capabilities within the Payment organization in Austin, Texas.

What you’ll do:

• Design, and implement real time, multi-tier distributed software applications, document and test systems, modify as appropriate.
• Lead projects with other engineers, architects, managers, and Product Management, QA, and Operations teams to design and develop innovative processes and create solutions that meet business requirements.
• Be a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional agile team
• Build new APIs to enhance the portfolio of PayPal’s one of the most popular service.
• Build performance sensitive systems that serve tens of millions of requests each day.
• Build and take operational responsibility of Java services that serve millions of users
• Be a master of your own design, Build robust testing scripts/systems to break our APIs and eventually fix them
• Lead engineering efforts,  implementations, and rollout system changes. Participate in release management and on-call duties, review recommendations for project or production issues and diagnostics

Who you are:

• You know how to write highly scalable and distributed Java services
• You drive technical projects and take pride in building systems that are used by millions of users every day.
• You have experience in developing mid-tier services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
• You have worked on traditional and non-traditional SORs from Oracle to Couchbase and Cassandra
• You think Agile is the way to go for faster development until something better comes along.
• You call Linux and Vim as your best buddies.
• You have great communication skills.
• You think POC (proof of concept) is the faster way to prove a point.
• You are passionate about PayPal and its mission to “build the Web’s most convenient, secure, cost-effective payment solution.”

• Strong Java/J2EE skills required 
• Demonstrable programming abilities in Java and other languages like Python, XML, HTML.
• Understanding of algorithmic techniques, design patterns and best practices.
• Knowledge/experience with web services (REST / SOAP) and ORM (Hibernate)
• Knowledge/experience with Spring.
• Curiosity about how things work and the behaviour of finding the answers. Flexible and adapting the changing circumstances, tenacious.
• Knowledge/experience with Unix. Knowledge/experience with relational databases, NoSQL databases. Knowledge/experience with applying Big O Notation to algorithms.
• Knowledge/experience with GitHub. Knowledge/experience with Service Oriented Architectures.

Basic Qualifications: 6+ years and at least a BSE (or equivalent)