Staff Software Engineer

The Company\n\nPayPal 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. \n\nWe 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.\n\nWe 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. \n\nOur beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do \u2013 and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.\n\nJob Summary:\n\nWhat you need to know about the role \nIn this role, you will be leading the transformation of products and services powering in-store merchant run the business experience towards a unified omni experience. This means not only driving customer experience cohesion, but also converging the underlying data and service layer towards the ones powering online experience. \nYou\u0027ll be working with both technical stakeholders - Engineering Managers, Senior Engineers, skip-level leaders - and other functions (Product Managers, Customer Support, Sales) to evolve and adjust the technical direction in order to meet the business objectives.\n\nJob Description:\n\nEssential Responsibilities: \n\n * Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system\n * Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow\n * Actions result in the achievement of customer, operational, program or service objectives\n * Proactively improves existing structures \u0026 processes\n * Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities (time, quality, complexity risk) to identify optimal solutions to problems\n * Notices patterns and condenses repetition into densely meaningful generalized solutions\n * Collaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor\n * Trusted to represent PayPal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations\n\n\n\nMinimum Qualifications:\n\n * 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor\u2019s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.\n\n\n\nAdditional Responsibilities \u0026 Preferred Qualifications:\n\nYour day-to-day\n\nAs a Staff Software Engineer, you\u2019ll be interacting with multiple teams owning the Point of Sale offering. You will be aligning the technical direction with the business problem, questioning the requirements, and challenging the status quo by ensuring that technical decisions align with business direction - both the ones currently being made, but also revising the historical ones as needed.\n\nYour day-to-day will primarily involve:\n\n * Guiding the principles and considerations behind designing and developing scalable backend systems to support and enable engineering teams you work with.\n\n * Identifying opportunities for strengthening technical cohesion while reducing intentional and incidental coupling between systems\n\n * Proactively identifying architectural and execution challenges and ensuring leadership visibility and follow-up on them\n\n * Mentoring other engineers while growing own competence\n\n\n\n\nWhat you need to succeed\n\n * Proven background in large-scale, high-performance system design and optimization. \n\n * Effective communication with both technical and non-technical audiences.\n\n * Experience leading informally through expert influence and building partnerships.\n\n * Advanced proficiency in Java, with strong expertise in core concepts, design patterns, and optimization techniques.\n\n * Extensive hands-on experience with Java frameworks like Spring (Spring Boot, Spring MVC) and Hibernate, building scalable and maintainable solutions.\n\n * Strong ability to collaborate with and influence cross-functional teams, contributing to technical leadership through code reviews, design discussions, and mentoring junior engineers.\n\n * Deep knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), utilizing them to deliver cost-effective and scalable solutions.\n\n * Solid understanding of both relational and NoSQL databases, with hands-on experience in ORM tools like Hibernate to ensure efficient data handling and performance tuning.\n\n\n\n\nGet bonus points if you also have...\n\n * Knowledge of the payment processing industry and relevant regulations.\n\n * Contributions to open-source projects.\n\n * Familiarity with microservices architecture and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).\n\n\n\n\nSubsidiary:\n\nPayPal\n\nTravel Percent:\n\n0\n\nPayPal does not charge candidates any fees for courses, applications, resume reviews, interviews, background checks, or onboarding. When making an application directly, we will never ask you to share passwords, one-time passcodes (OTP), or verification codes. Any such request is a red flag and likely part of a scam. All communication regarding your application will come from official PayPal email domains. If you suspect fraudulent activity, please report it immediately. To learn more about how to identify and avoid recruitment fraud please visit https://careers.pypl.com/contact-us. \n\nFor the majority of employees, PayPal\u0027s balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.\n\nOur Benefits:\n\nAt PayPal, we\u2019re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can\u2019t do this without our most important asset-you. That\u2019s why we offer comprehensive, choice-based programs, to support all aspects of personal wellbeing\u2014physical, emotional, and financial\u2014delivering meaningful value where it matters most. We strive to create a flexible, balanced work culture with a holistic approach to benefits, including generous paid time off, healthcare coverage for you and your family, and resources to create financial security and support your mental health.\n\nWho We Are:\n\nClick Here to learn more about our culture and community.\n\nCommitment to Diversity and Inclusion \n\nPayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected]. \n\nBelonging at PayPal:\n\nOur employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.\n\nAny general requests for consideration of your skills, please Join our Talent Community. \n\nWe know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don\u2019t hesitate to apply.\n