Staff Software Engineer

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: Job Summary We’re hiring a Staff Software Engineer – Full‑Stack (Web) to guide the technical direction of Venmo’s web products. You’ll work across the stack—React and Next.js on the front end, Node.js and Python services on the back end—delivering features for both consumers and merchants. You'll act as a project leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers, determining technical tasks, and improving existing structures and processes. It involves making technical decisions, collaborating with management to set standards, and representing the company to external partners.

Requirements

Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
8+ years building production web applications, with at least 2 years at senior or staff level.
Deep knowledge of modern React (hooks, context, Suspense) and TypeScript.
Experience designing or evolving backend APIsREST and GraphQLand the services behind them.
A track record of raising the technical bar: introducing better architecture patterns, automated tests, and code‑review culture.
Familiarity with build and deploy tooling (Webpack/Vite, CI/CD, containerization, cloud services).
Comfort navigating ambiguity and explaining trade‑offs in plain language to both technical and non-technical partners.
An inclusive mindsetyou help teammates grow and make decisions that serve a diverse user base.

Nice To Haves

Payments, risk, or fintech domain experience.
Prior work on design systems or component libraries.
Exposure to edge computing or serverless architectures (Cloudflare Workers, AWS Lambda).
Contributions to open‑source projects, conference talks, or technical writing.

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
Build, test, and ship web features for Pay with Venmo and Business Profiles using TypeScript, React, and Next.js.
Design and maintain backend services (Node.js, Python, GraphQL) that power those experiences.
Champion performance and accessibility; measure what matters and keep our pages fast for every user.
Help modernize our stackmoving to server‑side rendering with React Server Components, rolling out edge caching, and tightening DevOps pipelines.
Set clear engineering standards around testing, observability, and incident response.
Pair with product, design, compliance, and data teams to turn fuzzy ideas into shipped features.
Mentor other engineers through code reviews, design sessions, and thoughtful feedback.
Explore ways AI can improve both the developer workflow (AI‑pairing, code generation) and the end‑user experience (personalized offers, smarter search).

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.

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