PayPal Sr Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack 

United States, California, San Jose 

722281504

Your role will involve leveraging your extensive technical expertise and practical experience in Distributed Systems to lead and enable solutions to leverage existing platforms and guide the team through the intricacies of functional definition, architecture, solution implementation, and integration within complex environments. With a proven track record in technical leadership, you'll be instrumental in driving high-quality products and ensuring the successful delivery of projects while effectively leading and mentoring team members.

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.

Your way to impact:

• Design, implement, and deliver innovative payment experiences and merchant-facing tools for agentic commerce

• Develop scalable backend services and APIs using Node.js and TypeScript

• Build responsive frontend applications with React.js, Next.jsfor merchant and customer-facing experiences

• Drive engineering excellence through robust CI/CD practices, comprehensive testing, and modern DevOps workflows

• Own end-to-end quality of deliverables throughout all phases of the software development lifecycle

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions

• Leverage AI tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot to accelerate development andmaintainhigh-quality code

• identifyand troubleshoot integration or technical issues in payment systems

• Adapt swiftly to a fast-paced environment and manage continuously changing business needs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 12+ years of experience in designing distributed systems with hands-on developing and deploying end-to-end solutions.
• Expert in one or moreprogramming/scriptinglanguages, preferably in Java.
• Proficiency in data streaming technologies, No SQL databases, and database design.
• Deep expertise in Node.js and TypeScript
• Strong proficiency in React.js for frontend development
• Experience with modernJavaScript/TypeScriptdevelopment practices
• Jenkins/Hudson, Maven/Ant, RESTs experiences
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing practices
• Cloud-native and serverless architecture experience (AWS/GCP preferred)
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• GitHub Actions for workflow automation
• Experience with containerization and orchestration
• Strong communication, listening, interpersonal, influencing, and alignment driving skills; able to convey important messages clearly and compellingly.
• Demonstrated leadership abilities, including the ability to inspire, mentor, and empower team members to achieve their full potential.

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 $169,500 to $291,500

Our Benefits:

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