PayPal Staff Software Engineer - Frontend 

India, Tamil Nadu, Chennai 

384965028

What do you need to know about the roleThis 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:

• 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Key Responsibilities

As a Staff Software Engineer – Full Stack, your day-to-day will involve high-impact work across the full technology stack:

• Architect and Implement Solutions: Lead the design and hands-on implementation of large-scale, complex Full Stack solutions for critical platform components, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.

• Technical Leadership: Drive the adoption of technical excellence and best practices across the engineering team, including design patterns, code quality standards, and efficient development methodologies.

• System Optimization: Identify and address performance bottlenecks, optimizing core systems to handle increasing transaction volumes and ensure ultra-low latency.

• Data Architecture: Contribute to strong data architecture design, leveraging expertise in both relational and NoSQL databases to support high-throughput, mission-critical applications.

• Mentorship and Development: Act as a technical mentor and coach for junior and mid-level engineers, fostering their growth and developing high-performing engineering talent within the organization.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with product managers, data scientists, and other engineering teams to define system requirements and translate business needs into robust technical specifications.

Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

• Experience: Minimum of 10 + years of hands-on, progressive Frontend development experience building and operating large-scale, distributed applications.

• Frontend Expertise: Deep proficiency in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS , coupled with strong experience in at least one modern frontend framework such as React, Angular, or Vue .

• Backend & Systems: Strong experience with microservices architecture and building robust, scalable backend services.

• Database Skills: Solid understanding of relational databases , including strong data architecture and hands-on SQL/PL-SQL development skills . Exposure to and experience with NoSQL technologies is also required.

• Foundational Knowledge: Proven experience applying software design patterns, data structures, and algorithms to solve complex engineering challenges.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing and integrating with modern API technologies, such as GraphQL .

• Active contributor to open-source projects or a strong history of presenting at technical conferences/meetups.

• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

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