Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer, PayPal Checkout

PayPal Checkout serves $100+B in payment volumes across 200+ countries. We are creating a world where ‘payments’ is synonymous with PayPal. The PayPal Platform is a suite of web services, which are used by internal and external developers to enable payments anytime, anywhere and anyway. The Platform processes billions of requests each month, and enables PayPal and its partners to rapidly innovate on new payment scenarios and enable new experiences. Therefore, the evolution of the Platform is integral to PayPal’s long-term strategy.

As a Staff Software Engineer for PayPal Checkout you will provide technical leadership for your development team and lead the team’s participation in all phases of our software development lifecycle: from system design, architecture, and planning to development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and beyond. You will be responsible for developing industry-leading Checkout experiences that bring unquestionable value to both merchants and buyers and you will use your solid understanding of the business domain to guide the proper designs of our technical solutions. As an engineer in our development team you will be responsible for the development and delivery of the web services supporting PayPal APIs and user experiences on various channels (web, mobile, etc.), as well as integrations with partners. You will work closely with product, experience, and integration teams to understand the developer needs and deliver the APIs that meets their needs. We're looking for talented, motivated, detail-oriented technologists with a passion for building beautiful products and experiences. We value collaboration, communication, and a passion for achieving engineering and product excellence.

Things you'll do as a Staff Software Engineer at PayPal:

• Lead your team’s engineering efforts and demonstrate ownership of features, projects, modules, and services that you and your team deliver
• Lead design and development efforts of existing and new payment experiences using a wide variety of web technologies
• Play a key role in our broader architectural decision-making processes
• Act as a strong advocate for clean and scalable coding principles
• Participate in formal and informal code reviews to ensure code quality
• Be a champion of high-performance, secure, and reliable software services
• Identify critical non-functional requirements for the work your team is prioritizing (security, performance, scalability, etc.)
• Provide technical leadership for your team across all phases of our software development lifecycle
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with any and all non-technical stakeholders (Product, Design, Analytics, Legal, Marketing, etc.)
• Work with your Agile team to achieve shared understanding around the new products and features under consideration
• Continuously learn by staying on top of the latest technology trends and share your knowledge and experience with your peers, adjacent teams, and across the organization
• Collaborate frequently with other developers to design and implement the required solutions
• Understand and apply our technical architecture to ensure consistent, reliable, and secure deployments
• Enhance and maintain existing product capabilities
• Actively contribute to our automated test suite to enable speedy and reliable continuous integration
• Guide continuous improvements to our build and deploy processes
• Bring fresh ideas for how to continuously improve our software and your team
• Advocate for ways to remediate technical debt on an ongoing basis

What we are looking for:

• You have a Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, or a related field of study, with 5+ years of professional experience
• You are an expert in at least one modern programming language (Java preferred)
• You care about writing high-quality code, and you've written your fair share of automated tests to back up your code
• You're passionate about creating compelling user experiences
• You're ultimately a problem solver, and you enjoy working both independently and collaboratively to identify the root cause of any issue
• You have experience mentoring less seasoned team members

Preferred skills:

• Experience in developing software for distributed systems with high performance, scalability and availability
• Familiar and comfortable with the technologies, the tradeoffs, and the design patterns emerging in web services
• Experience in developing high performance, scalable and available web services using J2EE and frameworks such as RestEasy, Spring, Apache CXF and Jersey
• Good understanding of web services and SOA related standards like REST/OAuth/JSON and SOAP/WSDL.
• Experience in payments processing or e-commerce domains
• Experience working in a global-scale SaaS environment
• Thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. You have a bias towards action and results

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don’t hesitate to apply.