Full Stack Engineer - Cloud / Database

PayPal • San Jose, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Company PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers. We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards. Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade. Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities. Job Summary: This job implements tasks within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), follows internal conventions and procedures, makes technical decisions, collaborates with peers and project leads, and contributes to code and design reviews. Job Description: Essential Responsibilities: Implements tasks within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), receiving structure and oversight from more experienced staff Follows well-established internal conventions and standard procedures Understands internal standards & processes an applies them to make technical decisions Collaborates with peers, manager, and project lead to gain understanding of tasks and review solutions May contribute to code & design reviews Minimum Qualifications: Minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications: As a Software Engineer within PayPal’s Global Solutions Engineering Core Platform, you will design, deliver, and enhance foundational full-stack services that power global payments. You’ll promote technical excellence and collaborate across global engineering, product, and architecture teams. You’ll also explore AI-assisted development—leveraging agentic AI or developer AI tools—to elevate team productivity .

Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience leading enterprise grade feature development from ideation to production rollout and adoption.
• Front-end proficiency: Expertise in HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript, and deep experience with at least one modern framework (React, Vue, or Angular).
• Back-end expertise: Strong programming skills in back-end languages (e.g., Node.js, Java, Python) and experience with database technologies (relational databases like MySQL and NoSQL databases like MongoDB)
• Strong applied experience. You’ve built, broken, and rebuilt software applications. We’re looking for creative thinkers who also know how to create real-world products.
• Strong foundational knowledge in Object-Oriented Design Principles, Data Structures, Algorithms, SQL/NoSQL, Operating Systems, and Software Engineering
• Experience with NOSQL Databases, Distributed systems, Cloud-based technologies, Big Data Frameworks
• Experience on Big Data Technologies such as Apache Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, etc.
• Applied Experience with development of RESTful APIs ,Web Services, SOA
• A sense of ownership and a passion for delighting customers through innovation and creative solutions to sophisticated problems
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills to effectively connect with both business and technical teams
• Should be a strong advocate of code craftsmanship, good coding standards and use of tools that will improve the quality of the delivered code.
• Authority in writing Unit Test cases, Functional test cases and meeting Non-Functional requirements like application security, availability and performance.
• Ability to design and integrate RESTful APIs, microservices, and cloud-based architectures (e.g., AWS, GCP) to support scalable full-stack systems.
• AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD tools.
• Experience delivering in Agile environments.
• Experience working with engineering teams across multiple geographies, aligning on global technical standards and delivering cross-border solutions.

Nice To Haves

• Fintech background: payments, risk, and transaction systems.
• Prior experience integrating agentic AI (e.g., code-generating agents, automated test agents, RAG-powered development assistants) into engineering workflows.
• Observability tools experience.
• Risk/credit pipeline familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Design and build front/back-end components with, Java, React, Node.js or Python.
• Execute Agile practices: sprints, backlog grooming, estimations, and delivery.
• Deliver complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) (design, implementation, testing, delivery and operations
• Work with product and design teams to develop new ideas and explore new opportunities.
• Operates with little day-to-day supervision, making technical decisions based on knowledge of internal conventions and industry best practices
• Applies knowledge of technical best practices in making decisions
• Act as a strong advocate for clean and scalable coding principles
• Participate in formal and informal code reviews to ensure code quality
• Be a champion of high-performance, secure, and reliable software services
• Bring fresh ideas for how to continuously improve our software and your team

Benefits

• This role is also eligible for a range of benefits which may include, medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, parental and family leave, 401(k) savings plan, paid time off, and other benefits.
• We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees