Sr. Python Engineer - Cloud / Database

Job Summary:

Your Way to Impact

As a Senior Software Engineer within PayPal’s Global Solutions Engineering Core Platform, you will design, deliver, and enhance foundational full-stack services that power global payments. You’ll promote technical excellence and collaborate across global engineering, product, and architecture teams. You’ll also explore AI-assisted development—leveraging agentic AI or developer AI tools—to elevate team productivity

Job Description:

Essential Responsibilities:

• Delivers complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) (design, implementation, testing, delivery and operations), based on definitions from more senior roles.
• Advises immediate management on project-level issues
• Guides junior engineers
• Operates with little day-to-day supervision, making technical decisions based on knowledge of internal conventions and industry best practices
• Applies knowledge of technical best practices in making decisions

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build front/back-end components with, Java, React, Node.js or Python.
• Execute Agile practices: sprints, backlog grooming, estimations, and delivery.
• Deliver complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) (design, implementation, testing, delivery and operations
• Advises immediate management on project-level issues
• Guides junior engineers; participate in code and design reviews
• Work with product and design teams to develop new ideas and explore new opportunities. Your opinion matters and you’ll have opportunities to have a say in how things are built out
• Operates with little day-to-day supervision, making technical decisions based on knowledge of internal conventions and industry best practices
• Applies knowledge of technical best practices in making decisions
• 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
• Bring fresh ideas for how to continuously improve our software and your team

Required Skills

• 5+ years relevant full-stack development experience.
• Experience leading enterprise grade feature development from ideation to production rollout and adoption.
• Front-end proficiency: Expertise in HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript, and deep experience with at least one modern framework (React, Vue, or Angular).
• Back-end expertise: Strong programming skills in back-end languages (e.g., Node.js, Java, Python) and experience with database technologies (relational databases like MySQL and NoSQL databases like MongoDB)
• Strong foundational knowledge in Object-Oriented Design Principles, Data Structures, Algorithms, SQL/NoSQL, Operating Systems, and Software Engineering
• Experience with NOSQL Databases, Distributed systems, Cloud-based technologies, Big Data Frameworks
• Experience on Big Data Technologies such as Apache Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, etc.
• Applied Experience with development of RESTful APIs ,Web Services, SOA
• A sense of ownership and a passion for delighting customers through innovation and creative solutions to sophisticated problems
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills to effectively connect with both business and technical teams
• Should be a strong advocate of code craftsmanship, good coding standards and use of tools that will improve the quality of the delivered code.
• Authority in writing Unit Test cases, Functional test cases and meeting Non-Functional requirements like application security, availability and performance.
• Ability to design and integrate RESTful APIs, microservices, and cloud-based architectures (e.g., AWS, GCP) to support scalable full-stack systems.
• AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD tools.
• Experience delivering in Agile environments.
• Experience working with engineering teams across multiple geographies, aligning on global technical standards and delivering cross-border solutions.

Desirable Qualifications

• Fintech background: payments, risk, and transaction systems.
• Prior experience integrating agentic AI (e.g., code-generating agents, automated test agents, RAG-powered development assistants) into engineering workflows.
• Observability tools experience.
• Risk/credit pipeline familiarity.