PayPal Staff Software Engineer Python 

France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 

131352236

Job Description:

As a Staff software engineer you will act as a senior engineer and subject matter expert for the team. Given all these fun challenges, we are a fast-paced organization going through rapid growth that is solving technical challenges at exponential scale. As an organization, we have a strong culture of committing to goals and delivering on timelines.

Your day to day as Staff Software Engineer:

• Exhibits end-to-end ownership of design, implementation and operational excellence of software components

• Ensures an accurate, complete and operable solution is delivered, working with management as needed to fill gaps.

• Contribute to the technical engineering roadmap by completing quality and thorough assessments of implementation alternatives and their associated tradeoffs and providing recommendations.

• Provides technical leadership for a small team with minimum guidance from management or senior teammates.

• Design, estimate and implement new and refactored software services on the platform securely, reliably and at scale. Take ownership of quality of design and implementation of software components.

• Deliver high quality code on time and follow our SDLC process.

• Own the performance and availability of the services as well as participate in on call rotations and provide support during incidences.

• Have an appetite to learn and contribute to complex projects alongside your colleagues.

• Participate in code reviews, design reviews and is a key voice in team level processes.

• Interact with various non-engineering teams such as product, support, finance operations, compliance and legal.

What do you need to bring as Staff Software Engineer:

• Bachelor’s and/or Masters in computer science, or a related field of study, or equivalent 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 asSQS/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

• Expertise with building services on public cloud – AWS, GCP, Azure

• Experience in managing infrastructure as code using Terraform

• Experience working with fault-tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems.
  

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please