PayPal Full Stack Engineer - Cloud / Database 

United States, California, San Jose 

362472234

This job implements tasks within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), follows internal conventions and procedures, makes technical decisions, collaborates with peers and project leads, and contributes to code and design reviews.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Implements tasks within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), receiving structure and oversight from more experienced staff
• Follows well-established internal conventions and standard procedures
• Understands internal standards & processes an applies them to make technical decisions
• Collaborates with peers, manager, and project lead to gain understanding of tasks and review solutions
• May contribute to code & design reviews

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build front/back-end components with, Java, React, Node.js or Python.
• Execute Agile practices: sprints, backlog grooming, estimations, and delivery.
• Deliver complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) (design, implementation, testing, delivery and operations
• Work with product and design teams to develop new ideas and explore new opportunities. Your opinion matters and you’ll have opportunities to have a say in how things are built out
• Operates with little day-to-day supervision, making technical decisions based on knowledge of internal conventions and industry best practices
• Applies knowledge of technical best practices in making decisions
• Act as a strong advocate for clean and scalable coding principles
• Participate in formal and informal code reviews to ensure code quality
• Be a champion of high-performance, secure, and reliable software services
• Bring fresh ideas for how to continuously improve our software and your team

Required Skills

• Experience leading enterprise grade feature development from ideation to production rollout and adoption.
• Front-end proficiency: Expertise inHTML5/CSS3/JavaScript,and deep experience with at least one modern framework (React, Vue, or Angular).
• Back-end expertise: Strong programming skills in back-end languages (e.g., Node.js, Java, Python) and experience with database technologies (relational databases like MySQL and NoSQL databases like MongoDB)
• Strong applied experience. You’ve built, broken, and rebuilt software applications. We’re looking for creative thinkers who also know how to create real-world products.
• Strong foundational knowledge in Object-Oriented Design Principles, Data Structures, Algorithms, SQL/NoSQL, Operating Systems, and Software Engineering
• Experience with NOSQL Databases, Distributed systems , Cloud-based technologies, Big Data Frameworks
• Experience on Big Data Technologies such as Apache Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Hive , etc.
• Applied Experience with development of RESTful APIs ,Web Services, SOA
• A sense of ownership and a passion for delighting customers through innovation and creative solutions to sophisticated problems
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills to effectively connect with both business and technical teams
• Should be a strong advocate of code craftsmanship, good coding standards and use of tools that will improve the quality of the delivered code.
• Authority in writing Unit Test cases, Functional test cases and meeting Non-Functional requirements like application security, availability and performance.
• Ability to design and integrate RESTful APIs, microservices, and cloud-based architectures (e.g., AWS, GCP) to support scalable full-stack systems.
• AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD tools.
• Experience delivering in Agile environments.
• Experience working with engineering teams across multiple geographies, aligning on global technical standards and delivering cross-border solutions.

Desirable Qualifications

• Fintech background: payments, risk, and transaction systems.
• Prior experience integrating agentic AI (e.g., code-generating agents, automated test agents, RAG-powered development assistants) into engineering workflows.
• Observability tools experience.
• Risk/credit pipeline familiarity.

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 $100,500 to $173,250

Our Benefits:

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