Staff Software Engineer

PayPal PayPal · Fintech · San Jose, CA +1 · Software Engineering

Staff Software Engineer at PayPal, a global fintech company. This role acts as a project leader, coordinating engineers, determining technical tasks, and improving existing structures and processes. The engineer will make technical decisions, collaborate with management on standards, and represent the company externally. The role focuses on engineering rigor and generalized solutions within a mature, large-scale financial services environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system
  2. Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow
  3. Actions result in the achievement of customer, operational, program or service objectives
  4. Proactively improves existing structures & processes
  5. Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities (time, quality, complexity risk) to identify optimal solutions to problems

Skills

Required

  • project leadership
  • technical decision making
  • process improvement
  • collaboration
  • problem solving
  • software engineering

Nice to have

  • system leadership
  • setting standards
  • external representation

What the JD emphasized

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