Staff Data Engineer

PayPal•San Jose, CA

About The Position

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 new payment experiences using various technologies. Lead architectural discussions and contribute to overall technical direction, advocating for best practices and innovative solutions. Optimize software performance, identifying and resolving bottlenecks via monitoring, logging, and metrics to enhance the user experience. Act as a strong advocate for clean and scalable principles and practices in all areas, including coding, documentation, automation, etc. Be a champion of high-performing, secure, and reliable software services. Identify critical non-functional requirements for the work your team prioritizes (Availability, Security, Performance, Scalability, and Observability), and implement them with your team. Actively contribute improvements to our automated test strategies to enable speedy and reliable continuous integration. Guide continuous improvements to our build and deploy processes. Collaborate with other development teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment of client-side applications, automating and enhancing build, test, and deployment processes. Collaborate and communicate effectively with all technical and non-technical partners and stakeholders (Architecture, Developer Experience, Product, Design, Analytics, Legal, Marketing, etc.). Communicate frequently with your team to ensure a shared understanding of 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 Data Infrastructure development, and DevOps practices, and drive their adoption within the team. Collaborate frequently with other developers and teams to design and implement cutting-edge reliable solutions Understand and apply our technical architecture to ensure consistent, reliable, and secure deployments. Enhance and maintain existing product capabilities as required. Bring fresh ideas for continuously improving our software and your team. Advocate for ways to avoid and remediate technical debt continuously. Participate in program planning, influencing the product and technology roadmap and driving outcomes.

Requirements

8+ years of professional experience in software development, with a strong emphasis on backend development in TypeScript and Java.
Experience with modern data warehousing technologies (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Apache Iceberg) and has informed perspectives on their advantages, limitations, and how they fit into evolving data architectures.
High proficiency and strong skills in Cloud Technologies, object-oriented, and functional programming, and familiarity with AWS Lambda, Dynamo DB, and hands-on Typescript experience.
Experience in building high-scale, high-throughput, low-latency systems.
Strong problem-solving skills, possessing the ability to work independently or collaboratively to analyze and address complex technical challenges.
Experience with modern software development practices, version control systems, and agile methodologies.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
Strong attention to detail, as well as a passion for delivering high-quality software solutions.
Ability to mentor and up-level team members.
Proven track record of collaborating with teammates in non-technical roles, such as marketing, finance, and legal.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership and guidance to a team of software engineers
Demonstrate end-to-end ownership of features, projects, modules, and services
Lead your team's design and implementation of end-to-end solutions towards new payment experiences
Lead architectural discussions and contribute to overall technical direction
Optimize software performance
Advocate for clean and scalable principles and practices
Champion high-performing, secure, and reliable software services
Identify critical non-functional requirements
Actively contribute improvements to our automated test strategies
Guide continuous improvements to our build and deploy processes
Collaborate with other development teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment of client-side applications
Collaborate and communicate effectively with all technical and non-technical partners and stakeholders
Communicate frequently with your team to ensure a shared understanding of the new products and features under consideration
Conduct formal and informal code reviews
Mentor and guide junior engineers
Stay up-to-date with the latest industry standards, tools, and technologies related to Data Infrastructure development, and DevOps practices
Collaborate frequently with other developers and teams to design and implement cutting-edge reliable solutions
Understand and apply our technical architecture to ensure consistent, reliable, and secure deployments
Enhance and maintain existing product capabilities as required
Bring fresh ideas for continuously improving our software and your team
Advocate for ways to avoid and remediate technical debt continuously
Participate in program planning, influencing the product and technology roadmap and driving outcomes