# Staff Software Engineer

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

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## Description

As a Staff Software Engineer on the PayPal Promotions Platform, you'll shape the self-service tools that let PayPal and Venmo marketers build and manage campaigns across a wide range of offer types.

You'll lead the design and development of React-based web applications that are scalable, performant, and secure, and you'll raise the bar for engineering practice across the teams you work with.

**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:**

- Lead the design, development, and evolution of self-service campaign tools for PayPal and Venmo marketers.

- Set technical direction, lead large-scale projects, coordinate engineering efforts, and align teams toward shared objectives.

- Drive architectural decisions and establish engineering standards, including coding conventions, design patterns, review practices, and long-term technical strategy.

- Partner with backend, platform, infrastructure, and product teams to deliver scalable, end-to-end solutions.

- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and day-to-day problem solving while elevating overall team performance.

- Resolve complex technical challenges and develop reusable solutions while balancing performance, scalability, maintainability, reliability, and risk.

- Represent PayPal with external partners, customers, industry organizations, and developer communities.

**Benefits:** At PayPal, we're committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. We offer comprehensive, choice-based programs to support all aspects of personal wellbeing,physical, emotional, and financial,delivering meaningful value where it matters most. We strive to create a flexible, balanced work culture with a holistic approach to benefits, including generous paid time off, healthcare coverage for you and your family, and resources to create financial security and support your mental health.

## Skills

### Required
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- React

### Nice to have
- front-end architecture
- component frameworks
- build systems
- packaging
- backend systems
- API integration patterns

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