Staff Software Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work within a team of highly talented engineers, and architects to design, develop, maintain and support the next gen capabilities of the highly scalable and reliable Routing Platform. In this role, you will use your skills & experience as a software engineer, to influence the platform vision, architecture and execution of the key capabilities of PayPal’s Routing Platform and Infrastructure.  

Your day to day 

• You will be involved in all aspects of the SDLC, from ideation to scoping to design & implementation. 

• You will lead by example, and elevate the design, implementation, quality, and strong engineering practices across the team. 

• Work with cross-functional groups to identify dependencies, estimate timeframes, and develop end-to-end solutions for key initiatives. 

• Evaluate modern technologies and methodologies with an emphasis on quality and performance. 

• Maintain and enhance the existing architectural & developer documentations and create new ones. 

• Consistently invest in your career growth through new technical or soft skills learnings. 

• Support the operational excellence of our products by performing regular on-call responsibilities, such as monitoring app health metrics, reporting them to the team, and being ready and able to help with incident response 

• A successful candidate will be able to work independently in a rapidly changing environment and take ownership of the component assigned. 

What you need to bring 

• Master’s degree in Computer science with a minimum of 4+ years of experience or bachelor's degree in Computer science with 6+ years of experience in platform/system software development.  

• 4+ years of experience in Go, C++, C 

• Experience developing, maintaining and innovating large scale, high-volume, consumer-facing products. 

• Knowledge of REST, HTTP, TCP, concurrency and networking 

• Proficiency with at least one scripting language (Perl, Python, UNIX Shell Script etc.) is a plus 

• Experience with cloud native technologies like Docker and Kubernetes 

• Good Linux skills and understanding of operating systems 

• Experience in unit testing, and functional testing 

• Experience using Eclipse/IntelliJ, GitHub, JIRA, Confluence etc. 

• Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for debugging complex issues 

• Experience with using Agile/Scrum methodology for software development 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 

• Good analytical and problem-solving skills 

• Good team player, high EQ