Staff Software Engineer (AI)

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 Description Summary:

What you need to know about the role:
We are seeking intelligent and motivated senior engineers to join PayPal Compliance platform team, which is a core competency within PayPal. You will be building the most cutting-edge platform focusing on auto decisioning and process automations. The platform is heavily AI enabled/big data driven automation.

Meet our team:
PayPal's Compliance platform focuses on enabling Global Commerce by delivering a comprehensive, industry-leading regulatory technology platform while effectively meeting regulatory commitments in a cost-effective and innovative manner.

Job Description:

Your way to impact:

• Build solutions that improve efficiency and automation in Compliance processes through leveraging generative AI technologies.
• Lead the design and development of platforms that will enable us to bring high quality, mature solutions to market quickly.

Your day-to-day:

• Develop and deliver complete solutions spanning all phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Create platforms to enable the business to leverage generative AI in key processes.
• Participate in design discussions with product and architecture.
• Contribute clean code and documentation that adhere to critical non-functional engineering requirements (Availability, Security, Performance, Scalability, Self-Serviceability, and Observability).
• Communicate effectively with all technical and non-technical partners and stakeholders.
• Work closely with partners in China time zone every day.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers.
• Stay up to date with the latest industry standards, tools, and technologies related to development and generative AI (RAG, agents, reasoning, etc.)

What do you need to bring:

• Minimum 6 years of experience with 1+ years in designing and building AI solutions.
• Strong proficiency in software engineering fundamentals.
• Strong proficiency in Java programming language.
• Experience with Big Data technologies, such as BigQuery, Bigtable, Spark, Kafka, graph DBs, etc.
• Experience with generative AI technologies, such as LLMs, RAG, ReAct, agents, etc.
• Ability and willingness to quickly adapt and learn new technologies and frameworks.
• Passion for innovation and delivering high quality solutions and compelling experiences with new technology.

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