PayPal Sr Staff Software Engineer 

India, Tamil Nadu, Chennai 

669986196

This job makes technical decisions affecting multiple teams, establishes conventions and processes, handles multi-team initiatives, applies industry practices, communicates technical issues, mentors others, and partners with product management.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Makes technical decisions affecting multiple teams, crossing organizational boundaries
• Establishes conventions & processes to be followed by other employees
• Actions determine the utilization of company resources (people, money, assets) and affect the effectiveness of the company
• Handles multiple, multi-team initiatives simultaneously, using judgement to prioritize among more issues than can be handled individually.
• Understands evolving industry capabilities & practices and can judiciously apply up--to-date information for optimal results
• Competent at communicating technical issues with non-technical audiences
• Spreads their behavior, principles, and knowledge as a means of improving technical results of other employees (via many means – modeling behavior, 1:1s, working sessions, quality documentation)
• Partners with product management, to ideate solutions to business problems & goals

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 12 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate a customer-centric mindset in your daily work.
• Ensure adherence to defined specifications and processes throughout implementation.
• Own the end-to-end quality of deliverables during all phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with PayPal’s cross-functional technology team to understand and refine technical designs.
• Engage with managers, leads, and peers to evaluate and develop implementation options.
• Adapt swiftly to a fast-paced environment and manage continuously changing business needs.

Technical Skills:

• 12 years of experience in Full Stack Development, particularly with React, node.js and next.js
• Design, develop, and maintain backend applications using Ruby on Rails, and integrate them with frontend technologies including JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and others.
• Experience with web front-end technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, Webpack, and Bootstrap.
• Drive engineering excellence through CI/CD practices.
• Proactively identify and troubleshoot integration or technical issues.
• Write tests for existing and newly created code to maintain compatibility.

Personal Traits:

• Quick learner, unfazed by complex systems.
• Willing to take risks and thrive in an environment of continuous change.
• Experience in building the complete lifecycle of transaction processing, preferably within payments.
• Familiarity with refactoring existing codebases and understanding current implementations for refactoring or rewriting decisions.
• Participation in tech events, hackathons, contributions to open source, and active involvement in online tech forums is a plus.

Educational Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent +12 years of relevant experience / MS in Computer Science.

Our Benefits:

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