2 months ago
Base Salary
$177k - $262k/yr
Responsibilities
- Act as a project or system leader, coordinating engineers and determining technical tasks.
- Lead the design and architecture of scalable cloud-native backend systems.
- Define and drive the technical roadmap in alignment with business goals.
- Architect and develop large-scale backend systems using Python, Django, or Flask.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship while improving engineering standards and processes.
- Design fault-tolerant, highly available systems with strong disaster recovery capabilities.
- Apply secure coding, encryption, and access-control practices to support compliance and data protection.
- Collaborate with Product, Infrastructure, Operations, design, and data science teams.
- Represent PayPal in technical interactions with partners, customers, and industry organizations.
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and reliable backend software.
- Experience designing and optimizing large-scale, high-performance systems.
- Hands-on experience with Python and Django or Flask.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Familiarity with payments, financial systems, or relevant regulatory environments is preferred.
- Experience with Agile/Scrum software development is preferred.
- Contributions to open-source projects or developer communities are preferred.
Benefits
- Balanced hybrid work model with 3 days in the office and 2 days at the office or home workspace.
- Generous paid time off.
- Healthcare coverage for employees and their families.
- Choice-based physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing programs.
- Resources supporting financial security and mental health.
- No travel is required.
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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.