Staff Software Engineer

What you need to know about the role: As part of the Issuance and Tokenization engineering organization, the Staff Software Engineer will be part of a team delivering high impact products for various segments. The focus area will be across various types of product issuing, lifecycle management and transaction processing capabilities. We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate candidate who will collaborate with cross functional teams across PayPal as required to learn, design, and build solutions to meet business requirements. The successful candidate will be hands-on and collaborative with a strong sense of ownership. They will have a strong customer focus and drive to create quality products which enable our customers to be successful.

Your way to impact:

• Own implementation of a module/application/product
• Participate in complex architectural discussions that involve multiple systems
• Identify any product/functionality gaps and collaborate internal product and technology teams to define the necessary development to support solution delivery.
• Drive integration efforts and lead critical work streams of strategic initiatives sponsored by senior executives
• Drive engineering excellency 
• Pro-active response in identifying and troubleshooting integration or technical issues
• Drive engineering excellency by creating reusable, production-ready frameworks
• Challenge the status quo when needed.
• Ownership and strive for excellence in your role

Your day to day:

• Design, and implement complex, multi-tier distributed software applications, document and test systems, modify as appropriate.
• Lead projects with other engineers, architects, managers, and Product Management, QA, and Operations teams to design and develop innovative processes and create solutions that meet business requirements.
• Provide technical and project leadership and mentoring.
• Be a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional agile team
• Design for reliability, availability, scalability and performance in highly regulated Financial Services industry preferred.
• Create structure and drive progress in an ambiguous environment
• Demonstrated ability to scope, create and successfully deploy new strategy/ initiatives / capabilities

What do you need to bring-

•  Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline (or equivalent experience).
• 7+ years’ experience building software or web applications with object oriented or functional programming languages.
• Expert knowledge in Java, J2EE, REST
• Familiarity with other languages and technologies development, including Spark, NoSQL Databases,
• Experience in various architecture design patterns, design and implementation of Financial Systems/Platforms.
• Strong applied experience. You’ve built, broken, and rebuilt software applications. We’re looking for creative thinkers who also know how to create real-world products.
• Competent in software engineering tools (e.g. Java build tools) and best practices (e.g. unit testing, test automation, continuous integration, etc.).

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