# Senior Software Engineer

**Company**: PayPal
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $176,500.00 - $262,350.00 Annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

This job acts as a project leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers, determining technical tasks, and improving existing structures and processes.

**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

**Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications :**

- Lead engineering efforts and team level processes by defining outcomes for others, refining ongoing processes, and providing technical advice to senior leaders on systems, solutions, challenges, and strategy.

- Support end-to-end ownership of design, implementation and operational excellence of software components while proactively improving existing structures and processes.

- Contribute to the technical engineering roadmap by completing quality and thorough assessments of implementation alternatives and their associated trade-offs and providing recommendations.

- Provides technical leadership for a small team with minimum guidance from management or senior teammates.

- Design, estimate and implement new and refactored software services on the platform securely, reliably and at scale. Take ownership of quality of design and implementation of software components.

- Deliver high quality code on time and follow our SDLC process.

- Own the performance and availability of the services as well as participate in on call rotations and provide support during incidences.

- Have an appetite to learn and contribute to complex projects alongside your colleagues.

**Requirements:**

- 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Advanced skills with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching solutions (e.g. Redis, ElastiCache, Hazelcast) and messaging/queuing protocols/systems such as SQS/Kafka/RabbitMQ/Pulsar

- Ability to lead projects and mentor all levels of engineering staff, along with managing relationships with Product, Engineering Operations and non-technical business and support teams

- Expert with distributed services and backend systems

- Expertise with building services on public cloud – preferably AWS or GCP, Azure

- Experience in managing infrastructure as code using Terraform

- Experience working with fault-tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems.

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## Skills

### Required
- RDBMS
- NoSQL
- caching solutions
- messaging/queuing protocols/systems

### Nice to have
- Redis
- ElastiCache
- Hazelcast
- SQS
- Kafka
- RabbitMQ
- Pulsar
- Terraform
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure

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