PayPal Sr Staff Software Engineer 

United States, California, San Jose 

158387748

In this role, you are expected to balance hands-on development with strategicto the codebase while shaping long-term technology direction. You will be a key driver of technical excellence, helping the team deliver scalable and maintainable solutions to complex business challenges.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Makes technical decisions affecting multiple teams, crossing organizational boundaries
• Establishes conventions & processes to be followed by other employees
• Actions determine the utilization of company resources (people, money, assets) and affect the effectiveness of the company
• Handles multiple, multi-team initiatives simultaneously, using judgement to prioritize among more issues than can be handled individually.
• Understands evolving industry capabilities & practices and can judiciously apply up--to-date information for optimal results
• Competent at communicating technical issues with non-technical audiences
• Spreads their behavior, principles, and knowledge as a means of improving technical results of other employees (via many means – modeling behavior, 1:1s, working sessions, quality documentation)
• Partners with product management, to ideate solutions to business problems & goals

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 12 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 8–12+ years of professional software development experience.
• Prior experience leading large-scale, complex engineering efforts across teams or systems.

Technical Expertise

• Proficiency in system design and architecture, especially designing scalable, distributed systems.
• Deep Understanding of Java language:
  • Generics, Streams API, Lambdas, Functional Interfaces.
  • Framework & Libraries:
  • Spring & Spring Boot (REST API’s, dependencyinjection,configuration,profiles)
  • Spring Security, OAuth2,JWT

• Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, or platform engineering.
• Prior role in technical strategy setting or architecture reviews.
• Familiarity with security, compliance, and scalability in enterprise systems
• Deep understanding of software engineering best practices: testing, code reviews, CI/CD, observability, etc.
• Knowledge of databases, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), and DevOps tooling.
• Strong understanding of data pipelines, feature engineering, and model lifecyclemanagement.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and performant code.

Leadership & Influence

• Demonstrated ability to mentor junior and senior engineers.
• Experience in technical leadership without formalauthority—influencingacross teams.
• Strong collaboration with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineering Managers.
• Drives engineering excellence, standards, and long-term tech vision.

Project & Communication Skills

• Successfully led cross-team or cross-org initiatives.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills—able to articulate complex ideas clearly.
• Skilled in stakeholder alignment, risk management, and prioritization

Travel Percent:

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 .

The US national annual pay range for this role is $169,500 to $291,500

Our Benefits:

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