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PayPal Staff Software Engineer API 
United States, Texas, Austin 
768050886

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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

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualification:

This role offers the opportunity to:

  • Shape technical direction of payment infrastructure used by millions of merchants

  • Lead initiatives directlyimpactingdeveloper productivity and system reliability

  • Drive innovation in API design and developer experience

  • Represent Braintree'sAPI


What You'll Do

  • Own the technicalvision andinfluenceroadmap

  • Drive technical decision-making

  • Champion innovationthrough AI integration, automation, and tooling improvements

  • and evolveGraphQLschema design standardsensuring consistency, scalability, andgreatdeveloper experience

  • with the broaderorganization

  • Architect high-performance solutionsin Java on AWS multi-region infrastructure

  • Drive observability excellencethrough monitoring, tracing, and performance optimization

  • Serve as technical spokesperson

What You Need to Bring

  • + years of hands-on backend developmentwith advanced Java

  • 3+ years of technical leadershipwithdemonstrated

  • expertisefor backend systems and API development

  • GraphQLexpertiseincluding complex mutations and schema design principles

  • Distributed systemsexpertisewith large-scale systems, cloud architectures, and multi-region deployments

  • track recordof driving complex technical initiatives from conception to delivery

  • Strong mentoring abilitieswith examples of developing junior and senior engineers

  • Autonomous execution- history of delivering results with minimal oversight and clear accountability

  • Complex problem-solvingexpertisefor sophisticated technical challenges

  • Communication excellence- present technical problems effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

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