Description
The Principal Software Engineer is a senior individual contributor role who will help transform PayPal's Compliance technology landscape. This role combines hands-on software engineering, architecture leadership, cloud modernization, and practical adoption of AI.
The successful candidate will shape technology direction while remaining accountable for the design, development, and delivery of critical Compliance programs.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Increases results & effectiveness of all software engineers in a large domain
- Sets the technology roadmap for a domain
- Adapts their role to the need, selecting the most effective means of realizing their technical goals
- Provides advice and counsel to senior executives within PayPal, influencing the development of multi-year business strategies
- Exercises wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments and takes initiative to achieve results
- Handles ambiguous and unfamiliar situations and uses creativity to deliver decisive resolutions
- Uses discovery & exploratory research, not being limited to technical domains, to make successful decisions
- Identifies themes & trends that span projects and teams, and finds broadly impactful opportunities for improvement
- Uses professional savvy to determine when industry-standard solutions can be adopted, versus when a problem space warrants a novel solution (“build/buy”)
- Mentor others as a means of propagating technical influence, and to enhance the performance of their organization
Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications :
- Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of complex, high-impact Compliance programs across multiple engineering teams.
- Remain hands-on through technical design, prototyping, code reviews, troubleshooting, and delivery of production-quality solutions.
- Define and execute cloud modernization strategies for Compliance platforms, including scalable services, APIs, data platforms, automation, observability, security, and resilience.
- Identify and deliver practical applications of AI, generative AI, and intelligent automation across Compliance products, operations, and engineering workflows.
- Establish sound architecture principles and make pragmatic decisions across build-versus-buy, modernization, scalability, reliability, and time-to-market.
- Translate ambiguous business and regulatory needs into clear technical solutions and executable delivery plans, moving quickly from problem definition to production outcomes.
- Partner with senior executives and technical leaders to influence technology strategy, investment decisions, and transformation priorities.
- Identify opportunities to simplify platforms, increase reuse, and improve engineering effectiveness across the Compliance domain.
- Mentor engineers while raising engineering, architecture, and operational standards.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 10+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
Benefits: At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset-you. That’s why 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.