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PayPal Staff Software Engineer - Python 
India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 
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What you need to know about the roleAs a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a subject matter expert. We are looking for technologists with the highest levels of technical talent, programming, and communication skills with a keen desire to deeply understand our product and how to make our systems more robust and more resilient.

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 way to

As a Staff software engineer for Venmo Payments Engineering you will act as a senior engineer and subject matter expert for the Payments Engineering team. You will have the opportunity to work on one of the biggest payments platforms that caters to 6processes transactions worthof dollars.


Your day to day

In yourday to dayyou will

  • providingtechnical advice to senior leaders on systems, solutions, challenges, and strategy.

  • Support end-to-end ownership of design, implementation and operational excellence of software components while proactively improving existing structures and processes.

  • Contribute to the technical engineering roadmap by completing quality and thorough assessmentsof implementationalternatives and their associated trade-offs 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 asparticipatein on call rotations and provide support during incidences.

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

What do you need to bring

  • Bachelor’s and/orMasters 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 as SQS/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

  • with building services on public cloud –preferablyAWSorGCP, 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

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