2 months ago
Base Salary
$161k - $262k/yr
Responsibilities
- Act as a project or system leader by coordinating engineers and determining technical tasks.
- Lead engineering efforts and team-level processes by defining outcomes, refining processes, and providing technical guidance.
- Design, estimate, implement, and refactor secure, reliable, scalable software services.
- Own end-to-end design, implementation quality, performance, availability, and operational excellence of software components.
- Assess implementation alternatives and trade-offs and contribute recommendations to the technical engineering roadmap.
- Provide technical leadership for a small team, mentor engineers at all levels, and collaborate with product, engineering operations, business, and support teams.
- Improve engineering structures, processes, standards, and rigor while balancing time, quality, complexity, and risk.
- Participate in on-call rotations and provide operational and incident support.
- Represent PayPal in interactions with partners, customers, and industry organizations.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Advanced skills with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching solutions, and messaging or queuing systems.
- Expertise building distributed backend services and systems.
- Experience building services on public cloud platforms, preferably AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience managing infrastructure as code with Terraform.
- Experience working with fault-tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems.
- Ability to lead projects, mentor engineers, and manage relationships with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Comprehensive choice-based programs supporting physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.
- Generous paid time off, healthcare coverage for employees and families, financial security resources, and mental health support.
- Balanced hybrid work model for most employees with 3 days in the office and 2 days either at the PayPal office or home workspace.
- No travel is required; the listed work locations are San Jose, California and Austin, Texas.
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About PayPal
PayPal builds digital payments platforms for consumers and merchants, including PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom, supporting online, in‑app, and in‑person checkout and peer‑to‑peer transfers. It earns primarily from transaction and merchant processing fees, plus value‑added services such as risk management and branded credit. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in San Jose, California, PayPal operates in roughly 200 markets and is a public company traded on NASDAQ.