Sr Software Engineer

Job Summary

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design and build tools and services that make rule development and operations faster, safer, and more reliable. You'll work across the full rule lifecycle, including authoring, simulation, access management, releases, rollbacks, and monitoring, while partnering with EDM platform engineering, strategy teams, and SRE.

The Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) Rule Operations Tools team builds and operates the platforms that power PayPal's rule-based decisions across Risk, Credit, and Fraud. Our solutions include rule authoring and lifecycle tools, ownership and access controls, simulation and large-scale testing frameworks, APIs, and release pipelines-enabling teams to safely create, validate, deploy, and monitor rules at scale.

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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Java; experience building backend services and APIs
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and relational/NoSQL data stores
• Familiarity with rule engines, decisioning platforms, or workflow/business-logic tooling is a strong plus
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines
• Solid understanding of access control (RBAC) concepts, testing/simulation frameworks, and release management practices
• Strong debugging and analytical skills; comfort operating in a high-reliability, production-critical environment
• Good collaboration and communication skills to work across strategy, platform, and SRE stakeholders

Travel Percent: 0

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