PayPal Staff Software Engineer 

United States, Texas, Austin 

196572462

This job acts as a project leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers, determining technical tasks, and improving existing structures and processes. It involves making technical decisions, collaborating with management to set standards, and representing the company to external partners.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system
• Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow
• Actions result in the achievement of customer, operational, program or service objectives
• Proactively improves existing structures & processes
• Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities (time, quality, complexity risk) to identify optimal solutions to problems
• Notices patterns and condenses repetition into densely meaningful generalized solutions
• Collaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor
• Trusted to represent PayPal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations

Expected Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Your day-to-day:

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrate end-to-end ownership of features, projects, modules, and services that you and your team deliver in all phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Lead your team’s design and implementation of end-to-end solutions towards new payment experiences using various technologies.
• Lead architectural discussions and contribute to overall technical direction, advocating for best practices and innovative solutions.
• Optimize software performance, identifying and resolving bottlenecks via monitoring, logging, and metrics to enhance the user experience.

What you need to bring:

• ·8+ years of professional experience in software development, with a strong emphasis on backend technologies like Java, Spring Boot, design patterns , microservices architecture, and frontend development in Node.js, React
• 10+ years of experience including 2+ years of Lead experience preferred
• ·High proficiency and strong skills in Cloud Technologies, object-oriented, and functional programming, and familiarity with AWS Lambda, Dynamo DB, and Typescript experience.
• ·Experience in building high-scale, high-throughput, low-latency systems.
• ·Strong problem-solving skills, possessing the ability to work independently or collaboratively to analyze and address complex technical challenges.
• ·Experience with modern software development practices, version control systems, and agile methodologies.
• ·Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• ·Strong attention to detail, as well as a passion for delivering high-quality software solutions.
• ·Ability to mentor and up-level team members.
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Our Benefits:

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