PayPal Sr Staff Software Engineer 

United States, California, San Jose 

883527177

This job makes technical decisions affecting multiple teams, establishes conventions and processes, handles multi-team initiatives, applies industry practices, communicates technical issues, mentors others, and partners with product management.

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

Expected Qualifications:

• 8+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Lead design/solution discussions with local and global stakeholders
• Mentor and coach junior engineers, own code quality, conduct code reviews
• Own implementation of amodule/application/product
• Participate in complex architectural discussions that involve multiple systems
• Identify anyproduct/functionality
• Drive integration efforts and lead critical work streams of strategic initiatives sponsored by senior executives
• Drive engineering excellency through CI/CD/automation
• Pro-active response in identifying and troubleshooting integration or technical issues.
• Drive engineering excellency by creating reusable, production-ready code
• Collaborate with cross functional engineering teams globally to drive and align on solutiondesign/implementation

• Minimum of 8+ years of experience
• Owned/acting as tech lead forcomponent/services/domains
• Experience in Node.js development using Express.js, Koa.js or other frameworks
• Expert knowledge in Java, Spring framework, REST, gRPC
• Experienced with asynchronous patterns and messaging frameworks (e.g. Kafka)
• Familiarity with other languages and technologies development, including Node, Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL Databases.
• Experience in various architecture design patterns, design and implementation of Financial Systems/Platforms such as Core Banking, Back-end Payment Hubs, Financial reconciliation and reporting
• Expertise in designing for reliability, availability, scalability and performance in highly regulated Financial Services industry preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to create structure and drive progress in an ambiguous environment
• Superb communication skills; ability to comfortably interact with tech and non-tech colleagues
• Demonstrated ability to scope, create and successfully deploy new strategy/ initiatives / capabilities
• Experience to interact with engineering teams from multiple geo-locations
• Fluent communicate in English
• Experience with front-end frameworks a plus

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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