Staff Software Engineering

The CompanyPayPal 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. Our 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 – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.Job Summary: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.Job Description: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: 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience. Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:About the teamLead, drive, and deliver world-class core capabilities in Compliance, Privacy, Identity, Risk, Foundational Commons, and Global Servicing (formerly Customer Service) that provide PayPal a global competitive advantage by engaging, protecting, and servicing our PayPal ecosystem to drive trust, engagement, faster time-to-market, and the best possible customer experience.Provide an industry-leading ecosystem of unified, composable Core Platforms and Experiences that are frictionless, secure, easy to integrate, data & AIML driven, and provide all of the “-ilities” within a holistic architecture that empowers greater agility, faster time-to-market, end-to-end customer journeys, and business outcomes that grow the top and bottom line for PayPal.Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:Experience & Technical Expertise10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years building and scaling backend distributed systems in productionExpert-level proficiency in Java , Spring and Microservices with deep understanding of JVM internals, concurrency models, memory management, and performance optimizationProven experience architecting and deploying microservices architectures in cloud-native environments, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (AWS experience also valued)Strong expertise with Designing RESTful APIs,  Caching , Data modeling, Partitioning strategies, and query optimizationHands-on experience with message streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka and Google Pub/Sub for event-driven architecturesDefine and maintain team coding guidelines for Java, microservices design, API contracts, and database interactions by working thru matrix org.Demonstrated success designing and operating systems handling high-throughput, low-latency workloads (100k+ transactions per second)Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude) for code generation, testing, and documentation.Leadership & CollaborationLead architectural decisions and technical strategy across multiple engineering teamsServe as the primary technical authority for system design, establishing patterns and best practicesDrive cross-functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Risk, Payments and Compliance teamsChampion API strategy development and execution, ensuring alignment with product roadmaps and business objectivesMentor engineers through comprehensive code reviews, maintaining high-quality