Description
As a Staff Software Engineer at PayPal, you will serve as a technical project leader, coordinating the work of other engineers, defining technical tasks, and improving existing systems and processes.
You will make key technical decisions, partner with management to set engineering standards, and represent the company to external partners.
Your focus will be on building agentic commerce, agentic knowledge, and personalization solutions.
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:
- 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications :
- Python, Java, LangGraph, RAG, prompt and context engineering, GCP Vertex AI, Bigtable, Cloud SQL, vector databases, etc.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive, choice-based programs to support all aspects of personal wellbeing,physical, emotional, and financial
- Generous paid time off
- Healthcare coverage for you and your family
- Resources to create financial security and support your mental health