PayPal · 14 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer
Austin, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
8+ years expPayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years, and they are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to serve as the Senior Tech Lead across multiple scrum teams within their Merchant Integrations group. This role involves building secure, scalable systems that power integrations used by merchants around the globe, shaping architecture, influencing best practices, and leading others across a modern tech stack.
E-Commerce PlatformsFinTechMobile 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 architecture and technical decisions across teams
Serve as a point of contact for system design and cross-team collaboration
Design and build distributed systems using AWS, Java, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, and more
Participate in on-call rotations, ensuring reliability and incident response
Develop and execute short- and long-term API strategy that aligns with Product goals, ensuring the best experience for our merchants
Oversee the development and optimization of API endpoints, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align API design and implementation with rapidly changing business objectives
Conduct code reviews to maintain high-quality standards and ensure adherence to best practices in various languages and platforms
Qualification
Required
5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience
8+ years of software engineering experience
Proven leadership across multiple teams or large-scale systems
Deep experience with cloud-native architecture (preferably AWS)
Excellent leadership, verbal and written communication skills
Deep GraphQL API backend experience and developing complex mutations
Proficient in at least two of: Java, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails
Solid understanding of distributed systems and cloud architectures
Ability to present technical problems to non-technical audiences
Comfortable navigating ambiguity, influencing cross-functional teams, and driving decisions across orgs
Preferred
Experience working with payment systems, identity platforms, or edge networking is a plus
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
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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
PayPal UK CEO
chaloem khompitoon
President & CEO
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