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PayPal Staff Software Engineer 
United States, Texas, Austin 
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As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a technical leader who shapes the direction of our web SDK ecosystem and influences engineering excellence across PayPal. You will design and guide the development of scalable, performant, and secure JavaScript-based SDKs that enable seamless integration experiences for developers worldwide.


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.

Be a major part of

• Drive architectural decisions and

• Collaborate cross-functionally with backend, infrastructure, and product teams to define and implement end-to-end solutions.

• Act as a technical leader and mentor, guiding other engineers in design, implementation, and problem solving.

and proactively resolve complex technical challenges, balancing tradeoffs between performance, scalability, and maintainability.

• Influence and contribute to the evolution of PayPal’s engineering standards, coding conventions, and design patterns.

in code reviews and technical discussions to promote excellence and consistency across projects.

• Represent PayPal in external developer communities and industry discussions where, sharingand promoting technical leadership.

• Continuously improve our engineering systems and processes to optimize developer productivity and code quality.

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on modern web technologies and SDK development.

• Deepin JavaScript, TypeScript, and front-end application architecture, including frameworks, build systems, and packaging.

• Proven experience designing and scaling SDKs, APIs, or developer platforms used by third-party developers.

• Strong understanding of backend systems and API integration patterns; ability to collaborate effectively with backend teams.

• Experience leading large technical projects, influencing architecture decisions, and driving consensus across diverse teams.

• Strong judgment and ability to make sound technical decisions in complex or ambiguous situations.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to translate technical goals into actionable outcomes.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Additional Expectations

• Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the work of other engineers and aligning efforts toward shared

• Exercises sound judgment in balancing competing priorities—time, quality, complexity, and risk—to

• Proactively improves existing structures and processes to enhance reliability, scalability, and developer experience.

• Trusted to

Nice to have:

• Team developer experience: open source, outside of current team, developer for developers, developing SDKs

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

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