PayPal · 15 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$152K/yr - $262K/yr
5+ years expPayPal is a leading company in revolutionizing global commerce for over 25 years, providing innovative payment solutions. The Staff Software Engineer will act as a project leader, coordinating engineering activities, making technical decisions, and improving processes while representing the company to external partners.
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
Design, development, and testing of features/functions delivered via applications and services
Collaborating with peers and seniors both within their team and across the organization
Working with product managers using agile methodologies to deliver high quality solutions on time
Collaborate frequently with other developers to design and implement the required solutions
Work with product and design teams to develop new ideas and explore new opportunities
Working with operations teams to ensure your applications and services are highly available and reliable
Participate in formal and informal code reviews to ensure code quality
Be a champion of high-performance, secure, and reliable software services
Collaborate and communicate effectively with all non-technical stakeholders (Product, Design, Analytics, etc.)
Actively contribute to our automated test suite to enable speedy and reliable continuous integration
Qualification
Required
5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience
Preferred
Proficient in back-end development using Java technologies
Experience with REST API's and competent designing and building web services/microservices
Proficiency in Spring framework (Spring Boot, Spring Core, Spring Batch)
Solid understanding of concepts like Web Services, SOA, REST APIs, Message Queue, Distributed/Scalable Architecture
Deep understanding of and extensive experience applying software design patterns, data structures, algorithms, advanced object-oriented design, development principles and good analytical and problem-solving skills
Be driven to get results and not let anything get in your way
Be proactive and anticipate/handle most issues before they escalate
Exhibit a strong backbone and challenge the status quo when needed
Demonstrate a high level of curiosity and keep abreast of the latest technologies
Show pride of ownership and strive for excellence in everything you do
Bring fresh ideas for how to continuously improve our software and your team
Advocate for ways to remediate technical debt on an ongoing basis
Advocate & promote clean and scalable coding principles
Benefits
Flexible work environment
Employee shares options
Health and life insurance
Annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable)
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
PayPal UK CEO
chaloem khompitoon
President & CEO
Recent News
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