3 days ago
Base Salary
$161k - $262k/yr
Responsibilities
- Act as a project or system leader coordinating engineers and determining technical tasks.
- Lead engineering efforts and team-level processes by defining outcomes, refining processes, and providing technical advice.
- Design, estimate, implement, and refactor secure, reliable, scalable backend software services.
- Own the design quality, performance, availability, and operational excellence of software components.
- Contribute to engineering roadmaps through implementation assessments, trade-off analysis, and recommendations.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a small team with minimal management guidance.
- Collaborate with management to establish engineering standards and work with Product, Engineering Operations, and business teams.
- Deliver high-quality code according to the software development lifecycle process.
- Participate in on-call rotations and provide support during incidents.
- 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 relational databases, NoSQL data stores, and caching solutions such as Redis, ElastiCache, and Hazelcast.
- Experience with messaging and queuing systems such as SQS, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Pulsar.
- Expertise in distributed services and backend systems.
- Experience building services on public cloud platforms, preferably AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience managing infrastructure as code with Terraform.
- Experience with fault-tolerant, scalable distributed services and systems.
- Ability to lead projects, mentor engineers at all levels, and manage relationships with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to evaluate technical alternatives and make decisions involving time, quality, complexity, and risk.
Benefits
- Balanced hybrid work model with 3 days in the office and 2 days in the office or home workspace.
- Comprehensive choice-based benefits supporting physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.
- Paid time off, healthcare coverage for employees and families, financial security resources, and mental health support.
- Additional compensation may include an annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation.
- Travel requirement is listed as 0 percent.
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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.