Staff Software Engineer

PayPal
Austin, San Jose
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 160,500 - 235,826 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Leadership","Mentoring","Teamwork","Problem-solving"]

Senior lead engineer accountable for coordinating activities of other engineers, defining technical tasks, and driving improvements in existing structures and processes. Leads design decisions, sets standards with management, and represents PayPal to external partners, while delivering scalable backend services on a major payments platform.

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PayPal
6 months ago

Staff Software Engineer

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Job Summary

Senior lead engineer accountable for coordinating activities of other engineers, defining technical tasks, and driving improvements in existing structures and processes. Leads design decisions, sets standards with management, and represents PayPal to external partners, while delivering scalable backend services on a major payments platform.
Location: Austin, San Jose
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •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.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 160,500 - 235,826 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceRetirementSabbaticalTrainingVolunteering

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and 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; Experience building services on public cloud – preferably AWS or GCP, Azure; Experience in managing infrastructure as code using Terraform
Experience:5+ yearsPaymentsFintech
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:LeadershipMentoringTeamworkProblem-solving
Tech Stack:PythonAWSGCPAzureTerraformRedisElastiCacheHazelcastSQSKafkaRabbitMQPulsarSQLNoSQL

Company Brief

PayPal
Global online payments platform enabling digital and mobile payments, money transfers, and merchant services for consumers and businesses, supporting e‑commerce transactions across multiple currencies and payment methods.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Jose, United States
Founded: 1998
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