Staff Software Engineer

PayPal PayPal · Fintech · San Jose, CA +2 · Software Engineering

Staff Software Engineer at PayPal, a global fintech company, focusing on project leadership, technical task determination, and process improvement within existing structures. The role involves making technical decisions, collaborating with management on standards, and representing the company externally. Requires 5+ years of experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

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 with management
  • External representation

Nice to have

  • Coordination of engineering activities
  • Determining technical tasks
  • Reconciling competing priorities
  • Identifying optimal solutions
  • Generalizing solutions

What the JD emphasized

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