PayPal · 2 days ago
Principal Frontend Software Engineer, Ads Platform
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$188K/yr - $324K/yr
10+ years expPayPal is a global leader in commerce, creating innovative experiences for consumers and businesses. The Principal Frontend Software Engineer will lead frontend development for the Ads Platform, designing and optimizing systems that enhance user interactions and drive business success.
E-Commerce PlatformsFinTechMobile PaymentsTransaction Processing
Responsibilities
Increases results & effectiveness of all software engineers in a large domain
Sets the technology roadmap for a domain
Adapts their role to the need, selecting the most effective means of realizing their technical goals
Provides advice and counsel to senior executives within PayPal, influencing the development of multi-year business strategies
Exercises wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments and takes initiative to achieve results
Handles ambiguous and unfamiliar situations and uses creativity to deliver decisive resolutions
Uses discovery & exploratory research, not being limited to technical domains, to make successful decisions
Identifies themes & trends that span projects and teams, and finds broadly impactful opportunities for improvement
Uses professional savvy to determine when industry-standard solutions can be adopted, versus when a problem space warrants a novel solution (“build/buy”)
Mentor others as a means of propagating technical influence, and to enhance the performance of their organization
Qualification
Required
10+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience
Preferred
Worked in the Ad space and worked on Ad Management systems, gained significant ads domain experience
Experienced on building Ad platforms or integrating with Retail Media Networks
Own the multiyear architecture for PayPal Ads systems
Partner with product, risk, compliance, data, and finance to align technical choices to business outcomes; translate complex tradeoffs into clear, executive ready decisions
Grow Staff+ engineering capability: lead architecture reviews, create reusable frameworks and reference designs, and raise the quality bar across multiple teams
Track record designing and shipping large-scale, low latency, highly available distributed Ads systems
Proven mentorship of Senior/Staff engineers and effectiveness establishing technical standards and communities of practice
API platform experience (REST/gRPC/GraphQL), SDK/developer experience mindset, and a bias for cost aware, operable designs
Excited about working on large-scale, consumer-facing mobile and web applications
Benefits
Flexible work environment
Employee shares options
Health and life insurance
Annual performance bonus
Equity
Medical, dental, vision, and other benefits
Company
PayPal
PayPal is a financial service company that provides online payment solutions to its users worldwide.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$12.17BKey Investors
Kohlberg Kravis RobertsBlueRun Ventures
2025-11-17Post Ipo Debt· $6.95B
2023-06-07Post Ipo Debt· $5B
2015-07-20IPO
Leadership Team
Simon Bladon
CEO, UK
chaloem khompitoon
President & CEO
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