Senior Staff Software Engineer

Posted:
7/1/2024, 5:00:00 PM

Location(s):
California, United States ⋅ San Jose, California, United States

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to revolutionize commerce globally to make moving money, selling and shopping, personalized and secure. 

Job Description Summary:

What you need to know about the role:

Software engineers at PayPal develop innovative solutions and high-quality products that touch millions of people every day around the globe. Our engineers solve some of the most complex technical problems in the world of connected payments across all business units, including PayPal, Braintree, Venmo, Paydiant and others. We are looking for the highest levels of technical talent and programming skills, as well as a keen desire to deeply understand our products and services to push our technology forward with respect to functionality, performance, reliability, and scalability.

Meet our Team:

You’ll work alongside the best and the brightest engineering talent in the industry. We have opportunities in a wide range of areas including development, design, search, platform, test, quality, big data, front end and back end. As a core participant of your team, you’ll estimate engineering efforts, prioritize projects, plan implementations, and triage production issues. You need to be dynamic, collaborative, and curious as we build new experiences, improve existing products, and develop distributed systems powering the world’s largest e-commerce and payments websites at a scale only a few companies can match. You will work with both established and cutting edge technologies like Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Camel, J2EE, JaxB, JSON, Protobuf, RxJava, RxNetty, Hibernate, and Hystrix or Resilience4J to build highly resilient, low-latency, high throughput and with 4 9's availability services.

Job Description:

Your way to impact:

  • Self driven to get results and not let anything get in your way
  • Proactive, anticipate and handle issues before they become a problem
  • Exhibit a strong resolve 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 they do

Your Day to Day:

  • Design, develop, and test new capabilities to meet the business needs
  • Collaborate with peers and seniors both within Payments team and across the organization and geo-locations
  • Work with the product managers using agile methodologies to deliver high quality solutions on time
  • Work with operations teams to ensure your applications and services are highly available and reliable
  • Support your applications services as and when required on a 24x7 basis

What do you need to bring:

  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent, MS preferred
  • 10+ year experience in Java programming
  • Strong fundamentals of Object Oriented Programming using Java, C++ (or equivalent)
  • Designed web applications and clearly understand concepts like Web Services, SOA, REST APIs
  • Expert in Spring, Spring Boot, J2EE technologies, RxJava, JSON, RESTful APIs
  • Expert in designing and building RESTful interfaces in a commercial setting
  • Built SQL & NoSQL solutions and understand the pros and cons of relational and free form databases.
  • Competent in design and implementation for reliability, availability, scalability and performance
  • Well versed in software engineering tools and best practices

  • Additional Requirements:
    Design and architecture of distributed systems and/or micro services
    Mentor junior engineers
    Experience leading global, multi time zone teams

**We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don’t hesitate to apply.

Additional Job Description:

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

0

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PayPal is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

Actual Compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to work location, and relevant skills and experience.

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is

$96900 to $234300

Our Benefits:
At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset—you. That’s why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.
We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com

Who We Are:
Click Here to learn more about our culture and community.


PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit https://www.paypal.com ,  https://about.pypl.com and  https://investor.pypl.com.

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected].

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PayPal

Website: https://www.paypal.com/

Headquarter Location: San Jose, California, United States

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1998

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt

Industries: E-Commerce Platforms ⋅ FinTech ⋅ Mobile Payments ⋅ Transaction Processing