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PayPal Senior Tech Lead 
United States, Texas, Austin 
816084253

15.05.2025

PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.

We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards. Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade.

What you need to know about the role:We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to serve as the Senior Tech Lead across multiple scrum teams within our Merchant Integrations group. You’ll be at the technical helm of some of our most critical initiatives—building secure, scalable systems that power integrations used by merchants around the globe. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role for someone ready to shape architecture, influence best practices, and lead others across a modern tech stack.You’ll join the Merchant Integrations organization, made up of 5 teams and ~50 engineers, focused on edge networking, SDKs, and seamless merchant onboarding. You’ll report to a Group Engineering Manager and work alongside engineers across dev-ops, backend, frontend, and mobile.
You’ll also partner with identity, infrastructure, and product teams to drive platform-wide outcomes.You will be Improve and enhance an API that funnels funds like very few API’s in the world do.

Your day to day:

  • eadarchitecture and technical decisions across teams

  • Serve as a point of contact for system design and cross-team collaboration

  • Design and build distributed systems using AWS, Java,GraphQL, Ruby on Rails,TypeScript, andmore

  • Participate in on-call rotations, ensuring reliability and incident response

  • Develop and executeshort- and long-termAPI strategy that aligns with Product goals, ensuring the best experience for our merchants.

  • Oversee the developmentand optimization ofAPIendpoints, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.

  • to align API design and implementation withrapidlychangingbusinessobjectives

  • Conduct code reviewstomaintainhigh-quality standards and ensure adherence to best practices invarious languages and platforms


need tobring:

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience

  • Proven leadership across multiple teams or large-scale systems

  • Deep experience with cloud-native architecture (preferably AWS)

  • leadership,verbaland written communication skills.

  • GraphQLAPI backend experience and developing complex mutations.

  • inat least two of:Java, Kotlin, Swift, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails

  • Solid understanding of distributed systems and cloud architectures.

  • Ability to present technical problems to non-technical audiences.

  • Experience working withpayment systems,identity platforms, oredge networkingis a plus

  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity, influencing cross-functional teams, and driving decisions across orgs

Our Benefits:

We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit

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