Staff Software Engineer

undefined ago • 10 Years + • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Staff Software Engineer at PayPal, you will lead projects, coordinate engineering activities, and drive technical decisions to improve existing structures and processes. You will provide technical leadership for the PayPal Checkout development team, shaping the future of customer-facing checkout products. This involves implementing technical designs, contributing to architectural decisions, influencing client-side applications, and mentoring junior engineers. You will develop industry-leading Android mobile app experiences, focusing on scale, reliability, and performance, while fostering a culture of innovation and technical excellence.
Must have:
  • Act as a project or system leader
  • Coordinate activities of other engineers on the project or within the system
  • Determine the technical tasks that other engineers will follow
  • Achieve customer, operational, program or service objectives
  • Proactively improve existing structures & processes
  • Exercise judgment in reconciling diverse and competing priorities
  • Identify optimal solutions to problems
  • Notice patterns and condense repetition into generalized solutions
  • Collaborate with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor
  • Represent PayPal, Inc to external partners, customers, or industry organizations
  • Make technical decisions affecting multiple teams, crossing organizational boundaries
  • Establish conventions & processes to be followed by other employees
  • Handle multiple, multi-team initiatives simultaneously, using judgment to prioritize
  • Understand evolving industry capabilities & practices and judiciously apply up-to-date information
  • Communicate technical issues with non-technical audiences
  • Spread behavior, principles, and knowledge to improve technical results of other employees
  • Partner with product management to ideate solutions to business problems & goals
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • 10+ years of hands-on mobile development experience (Android)
  • Experience in designing, developing and delivering software and/or platforms (libraries)
  • Deep expertise in mobile technologies and architecture
  • Expert proficiency in Kotlin/Java (Android)
  • Strong object-oriented skills including design, coding and testing patterns
  • Familiarity with database technologies (SQL and NoSQL databases) and ORM frameworks (Hibernate, JPA)
  • Ability to design scalable, reliable, and maintainable software systems
  • Proven ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams
Good to have:
  • Experience with mobile payment technologies and integrations
  • Proficiency in Kotlin, Java, and React Native
  • Familiarity with continuous integration (Jenkins)
  • Familiarity with application monitoring (Crashlytics and fabric.io)
  • Familiarity with mocking tools (Appium and Apiary)
  • Experience with build tool development and enhancements
  • Experience using unit testing and cucumber tests for functional tests
  • Familiar and comfortable with Android technologies, trade-offs, and design patterns
  • Knowledge of mobile performance optimization techniques
  • Experience with machine learning and AI in mobile applications
  • Knowledge of emerging mobile technologies (AR, VR, wearables)
  • Strong ability to influence and inspire teams
Perks:
  • Flexible work environment
  • Employee shares options
  • Health insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Balanced hybrid work model

Job Details

The Company

PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.

We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards. Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade.

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.

Job Summary:

This job acts as a project leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers, determining technical tasks, and improving existing structures and processes. It involves making technical decisions, collaborating with management to set standards, and representing the company to external partners.

Job Description:

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system
  • Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow
  • Actions result in the achievement of customer, operational, program or service objectives
  • Proactively improves existing structures & processes
  • Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities (time, quality, complexity risk) to identify optimal solutions to problems
  • Notices patterns and condenses repetition into densely meaningful generalized solutions
  • Collaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor
  • Trusted to represent PayPal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualification:

Job Summary:

As a Staff Software Engineer for PayPal Checkout, you will provide technical leadership for your development team and you will lead the team’s participation in all phases of our software development lifecycle. In this role, you will be responsible for shaping the future of PayPal's customer facing checkout products. This will be accomplished through technical leadership, implementation of technical designs, direct contributions to architectural decisions, influencing the technical direction of our client-side applications and mentoring of junior engineers. You will be responsible for developing industry-leading experiences that bring unquestionable value to both merchants and buyers. You will use your years of technical expertise and a solid understanding of the business domain to help us improve the scale, reliability, and performance of our platforms

This position is critical for providing technical leadership, guiding the team toward building a cohesive, next-generation Android mobile app, and closely collaborate with the mobile platform teams to create solutions that leverage the platform capabilities while ensuring the mobile app performance and scalability. This person will also mentor engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and technical excellence.

Your way to impact

At PayPal, Mobile Software Engineers are the architects of PayPal’s advanced applications for Android platforms. You'll design, develop, and optimize core systems powering millions of transactions daily, delivering innovative solutions that delight customers and drive business success.

Your day-to-day:

As an Android Staff Software Engineer, you will:

  • Makes technical decisions affecting multiple teams, crossing organizational boundaries
  • Establishes conventions & processes to be followed by other employees
  • Actions determine the utilization of company resources (people, money, assets) and affect the effectiveness of the company
  • 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 (via many means – modelling behaviour, 1:1s, working sessions, quality documentation)
  • Partners with product management, to ideate solutions to business problems & goals

What you need to bring:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • 10+ years of hands-on mobile development experience (Android).
  • Experience in designing, developing and delivering software and/or platforms (libraries)
  • Deep expertise in mobile technologies and architecture.
  • Expert proficiency in Kotlin/Java (Android).
  • Strong object-oriented skills including design, coding and testing patterns.
  • Familiarity with database technologies (SQL and NoSQL databases) and ORM frameworks (Hibernate, JPA).
  • Ability to design scalable, reliable, and maintainable software systems.
  • Proven ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with mobile payment technologies and integrations
  • Proficiency in Kotlin, Java, and React Native.
  • Familiarity with continuous integration (Jenkins), application monitoring (Crashlytics and fabric.io), mocking tools (Appium and Apiary), build tool development and enhancements, using unit testing and cucumber tests for functional tests
  • Familiar and comfortable with Android technologies, the trade offs, and the design patterns emerging.
  • Knowledge of mobile performance optimization techniques.
  • Experience with machine learning and AI in mobile applications.
  • Knowledge of emerging mobile technologies (AR, VR, wearables).
  • Strong ability to influence and inspire teams.

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

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For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

Our Benefits:

At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset—you. That’s why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.

We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

Who We Are:

Click Here to learn more about our culture and community.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at paypalglobaltalentacquisition@paypal.com.

Belonging at PayPal:

Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please Join our Talent Community.

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

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