PayPal · 2 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$160K/yr - $239K/yr
5+ years expPayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years, empowering consumers and businesses to thrive in the global economy. The Staff Software Engineer will act as a project leader, coordinating activities of other engineers, making technical decisions, and improving existing structures and processes.
E-CommerceFinTechPaymentsE-Commerce PlatformsMobile PaymentsTransaction Processing
Responsibilities
Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system
Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow
Actions result in the achievement of customer, operational, program or service objectives
Proactively improves existing structures & processes
Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities (time, quality, complexity risk) to identify optimal solutions to problems
Notices patterns and condenses repetition into densely meaningful generalized solutions
Collaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor
Trusted to represent PayPal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations
Lead engineering efforts and team level processes by defining outcomes for others, refining ongoing processes, and providing technical advice to senior leaders on systems, solutions, challenges, and strategy
Support end-to-end ownership of design, implementation and operational excellence of software components while proactively improving existing structures and processes
Contribute to the technical engineering roadmap by completing quality and thorough assessments of implementation alternatives and their associated trade-offs and providing recommendations
Provides technical leadership for a small team with minimum guidance from management or senior teammates
Design, estimate and implement new and refactored software services on the platform securely, reliably and at scale. Take ownership of quality of design and implementation of software components
Deliver high quality code on time and follow our SDLC process
Own the performance and availability of the services as well as participate in on call rotations and provide support during incidences
Have an appetite to learn and contribute to complex projects alongside your colleagues
Qualification
Required
5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience
Bachelor's and/or Masters in computer science, or a related field of study, or equivalent experience
8+years' experience with Python or equivalent high-level programming language
Advanced skills with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching solutions (e.g. Redis, ElastiCache, Hazelcast) and messaging/queuing protocols/systems such as SQS/Kafka/RabbitMQ/Pulsar
Ability to lead projects and mentor all levels of engineering staff, along with managing relationships with Product, Engineering Operations and non-technical business and support teams
Expert with distributed services and backend systems
Expertise with building services on public cloud – preferably AWS or GCP, Azure
Experience in managing infrastructure as code using Terraform
Experience working with fault-tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems
Benefits
Flexible work environment
Employee shares options
Health and life insurance
Company
PayPal
PayPal is a financial service company that provides online payment solutions to its users worldwide.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1144)
2024 (917)
2023 (775)
2022 (921)
2021 (1051)
2020 (1049)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$12.17BKey Investors
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.Madison Dearborn Partners,VertexClearstone Venture Partners,Goldman Sachs
2025-11-17Post Ipo Debt· $6.95B
2023-06-07Post Ipo Debt· $5B
2015-07-20IPO
Leadership Team
Alex Chriss
President & CEO
Simon Bladon
PayPal UK CEO
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