PayPal Staff Software Engineer Backend Python 

United States, California, San Jose 

545142853

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.

As a
Software Engineer, Backend Python,you'll define the technical roadmap and drive innovation. You'll collaborate with product and engineering leadership to deliver impactful solutions.

• Strong analytical skills to analyze requirements and transform into scalable software designs.
• Strong advocate of code craftsmanship, good coding standards and use of tools that will improve the quality of the delivered code
• Define and execute the backend technology strategy.
• Drive innovation and experimentation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver business outcomes

What do you need to bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 8+ years of backend development experience.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language (Python)

• Leadership in designing and architecting scalable backend systems with a focus on cloud-native solutions, microservices, and serverless architectures.
• Expertise in architecting and developing large-scale backend systems using Python, with extensive experience in Django, or Flask.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, drive technical roadmaps, and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Expertise in designing and implementing fault-tolerant systems with a focus on high availability and disaster recovery.
• Experience with advanced security practices, including secure coding, encryption, and access control.
• Proven ability to influence and mentor engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Deep expertise in backend technologies and architecture.
• Proven ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with using Agile/Scrum methodology for software development
• Experience with large-scale, high-performance systems.
• Knowledge of the payment processing industry and relevant regulations.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Contributions to open-source projects.

The total compensation for this position 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 U.S. national annual pay range for this role is $to $

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