Senior Software Engineer, Backend

PayPal • San Jose, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

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. The company empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets, operating a global, two-sided network connecting hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. PayPal provides proprietary payment solutions, enabling customers to use their accounts for purchases, payments, transfers, and withdrawals, utilizing various funding sources including bank accounts, PayPal/Venmo balances, credit products, cards, cryptocurrencies, and gift cards. Their products also facilitate safer fund transfers between friends and family. For merchants, PayPal offers an end-to-end payments solution with authorization, settlement, instant fund access, and tools for customer connection, exchanges, returns, and risk management, while reducing complexity in cross-border trade. The company is guided by core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness.

As a member of the Checkout Engineering team, this role is responsible for the development and delivery of applications and services powering PayPal’s Checkout user experiences. The engineer will collaborate closely with product, design, and analytics teams to understand user needs. The team seeks talented, motivated, and detail-oriented technologists passionate about building engaging products and experiences, valuing collaboration, communication, and a commitment to engineering and product excellence.

As a backend engineer for PayPal Checkout, the individual will deliver complete solutions and features across all phases of the software development lifecycle. This role is crucial in shaping the future of PayPal's customer-facing checkout products through technical design implementation, architectural contributions, influencing technical direction, and mentoring junior engineers. The position involves developing industry-leading experiences that provide significant value to both merchants and buyers, leveraging technical expertise and business domain understanding to enhance the scale, reliability, and performance of PayPal's platforms.

Requirements

• 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience
• Talented, motivated and detail-oriented technologist with a passion for building beautiful products and experiences
• Value collaboration, communication, and a passion for achieving engineering and product excellence
• Years of technical expertise and a solid understanding of the business domain
• Strong advocate for clean, scalable, high-performing, secure, and reliable software services, in all areas, including coding, documentation, automation, etc.
• Ability to stay up-to-date with the latest industry standards, tools, and technologies related to client-side development, observability, and DevOps practices, and drive their adoption within the team
• Ability to participate in program planning, influencing the product and technology roadmap and driving outcomes

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
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement
• Demonstrate end-to-end ownership of features, projects, modules, and services that you and your team deliver in all phases of the software development lifecycle
• Lead your team’s design and implementation of end-to-end solutions towards client-side applications using Java, J2EE, and other relevant technologies
• Lead architectural discussions and contribute to the overall technical direction of the client-side applications, advocating for best practices and innovative solutions
• Own and optimize software performance, identifying and resolving bottlenecks via monitoring, logging, and metrics to enhance the user experience
• Act as a strong advocate for clean, scalable, high-performing, secure, and reliable software services, in all areas, including coding, documentation, automation, etc.
• Own, Identify, and implement critical non-functional requirements (Availability, Security, Performance, Scalability, and Observability), and improve automated test strategies, build and deploy processes to enable speedy and reliable continuous integration
• Collaborate with other development teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment of consumer facing applications, automating and enhancing build, test, and deployment processes
• Communicate effectively with all technical and non-technical partners and stakeholders (Architecture, Developer Experience, Product, Design, Analytics, Legal, Marketing, etc.) as well as within your team to ensure shared understanding around the new products and features under consideration
• Conduct formal and informal code reviews, providing constructive feedback to team members to ensure code quality and adherence to clean and scalable coding principles
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering their professional growth and promoting a collaborative and knowledge-sharing environment
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry standards, tools, and technologies related to client-side development, observability, and DevOps practices, and drive their adoption within the team
• Participate in program planning, influencing the product and technology roadmap and driving outcomes

Benefits

• Comprehensive, choice-based programs, to support all aspects of personal wellbeing—physical, emotional, and financial—delivering meaningful value where it matters most
• Flexible, balanced work culture
• Generous paid time off
• Healthcare coverage for you and your family
• Resources to create financial security
• Support your mental health
• Annual performance bonus
• Equity
• Other incentive compensation

What This Job Offers

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