PayPal is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Sr. Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and scale robust, high-performance systems that power their products and platforms, and to drive architectural decisions, influence engineering best practices, and mentor engineers across the organization.
Requirements
- Proficiency in system design and architecture, especially designing scalable, distributed systems
- Deep Understanding of Java language: Generics, Streams API, Lambdas, Functional Interfaces
- Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, or platform engineering
- Prior role in technical strategy setting or architecture reviews
- Familiarity with security, compliance, and scalability in enterprise systems
- Deep understanding of software engineering best practices: testing, code reviews, CI/CD, observability, etc
- Knowledge of databases, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), and DevOps tooling
Responsibilities
- Makes technical decisions affecting multiple teams, crossing organizational boundaries
- Establishes conventions & processes to be followed by other employees
- 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
- Partners with product management, to ideate solutions to business problems & goals
Other
- Minimum of 12 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Demonstrated ability to mentor junior and senior engineers
- Experience in technical leadership without formal authority—influencing across teams
- Strong collaboration with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineering Managers
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills—able to articulate complex ideas clearly
