Staff Full Stack Engineer, PayPal Shopping

PayPal • San Jose, CA

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

Join the PayPal Shopping Team as a Staff Full Stack Software Engineer, where you will play a key role in building secure, high-performing applications & features — owning the process from architecture and system design through implementation, launch, and ongoing operations. You’ll deliver impactful features, respond to customer feedback, ensure compliance, and collaborate closely with Product in an agile environment to bring ideas from concept to release. You’ll also contribute to code reviews, share knowledge across teams within PayPal & Honey, and foster transparency and efficiency in delivery. Our team culture emphasizes collaboration, continuous learning, mentorship, and collective success.

Requirements

• 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Nice To Haves

• Proficiency in JavaScript/Node.js (Golang experience is a plus)
• React (UI/UX) experience preferred.
• GraphQL and REST API development experience preferred.
• Cloud platform experience (GCP, AWS, etc.) preferred
• Solid foundation in data structures & algorithms, error handling, and debugging
• Proven experience creating automated unit, integration, and functional test suites.
• Background working with large-scale, distributed, high-availability systems
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, CircleCI, Harness and Git
• SQL and NoSQL database knowledge helpful
• Experience working with Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) a plus
• Experience in e-commerce, product catalogs, advertisement or search and recommendation systems.
• Experience developing browser extensions

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

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level