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