Staff Software Engineer

The Company

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. 

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.

We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards.  Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade. 

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day.  We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.

Job Summary:

Job Description:

PayPal, Inc. seeks Staff Software Engineer in San Jose, CA

Job Duties: Lead software 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. Design and develop fault-tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems, and new cloud-based software solutions using experience with distributed services and backend systems, as well as expertise with building services on public cloud -AWS, GCP, Azure. Determine the technical tasks that other engineers will follow throughout design, development, testing and implementation phases. Contribute to the technical engineering roadmap by completing quality and thorough assessments of implementation alternatives and their associated tradeoffs and providing recommendations. Analyze and reconcile diverse and competing priorities to identify optimal solutions to problems, and anticipate consequences and risks linked to implementation choices. Identify patterns to reduce repetition into meaningful general solutions using skills with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching solutions, and messaging/queuing protocols/systems. Perform software code and design reviews ensuring an accurate, complete, timely, and operable solution is delivered. Write unit, integration and functional tests and resolve the technical inquiries.  Partial telecommuting permitted from within a commutable distance.

Minimum Requirements: Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Engineering, or a closely related field plus eight years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

Special Skill Requirements:

1. Experience in software engineering, including Java, OOP, and design patterns for scalable application development (8 years).

2. Experience using Git and modern development workflows including pull requests, code reviews, and CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Maven (7 years).

3. Experience applying the full SDLC including requirements gathering, design documentation, testing, deployment, and post-release support (7 years).

4. Experience building and maintaining microservices with Spring Boot, including REST API development, input validation, service configuration, and integrations with downstream systems (6 years).

5. Experience in Agile environments and collaborating with cross-functional teams (6 years).

6. Experience with API Gateways such as Apigee for API Management and fault tolerance (6 ye