Job Summary:

Job Description:

PayPal, Inc. seeks Sr Software Engineer in San Jose, CA

Job Duties: Provide technical guidance to a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. Demonstrate end-to-end ownership of software features, projects, modules, and services that the team delivers in all phases of the software development lifecycle. Lead a software team's design and implementation of end-to-end software solutions towards client-side applications. Lead architectural discussions and contribute to the overall technical direction of the client-side software applications, advocating for best practices and innovative solutions. Proactively optimize software performance, identifying and resolving bottlenecks via monitoring, logging, and metrics to enhance the user experience. Act as a strong advocate for clean, scalable, high-performing, secure, and reliable software services, in all areas, including coding, documentation, and automation. Proactively identify and implement critical non-functional requirements (Availability, Security, Performance, Scalability, and Observability), and improve automated software test strategies, build and deploy processes to enable speedy and reliable continuous integration. Collaborate with other development teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment of client-side software applications, automating and enhancing build, test, and deployment processes. Communicate with all technical and non-technical partners and stakeholders (Architecture, Developer Experience, Product, Design, Analytics, Legal, Marketing, etc.) as well as with the team to ensure shared understanding around the new software products and features under consideration. Conduct formal and informal software code reviews, providing constructive feedback to team members to ensure software code quality and adherence to clean and scalable software coding principles. Mentor and guide junior software 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 web development, observability, and DevOps practices, and drive their adoption within the team. Participate in program planning, influencing the product and technology roadmap and driving outcomes. Partial telecommuting permitted from within a commutable distance.

Minimum Requirements: Master's degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related field plus two years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation. Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related field plus five years of progressively responsible experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

Special Skill Requirements:

1. Designing and implementing solutions using JavaScript (2 years)

2. Server-side application development with Node.js (2 years)

3. React for building scalable, performance front-end applications (2 years)

4. Designing and developing APIs using GraphQL (2 years)

5. Continuous integration and deployment tools such as Jenkins or GitHub actions (2 years)

6. Docker and Kubernetes for deploying and managing microservices (2 years)

7. Unit and E2E testing frameworks, such as Jest, Mocha, or Playwright (2 years)

8. AWS, GCP, or Azure for deploying and managing cloud-based applications (2 years)

9. SQL and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL or MongoDB for designing and optimizing data storage solutions (2 years)

10. Monitoring and observability tools such as New Relic, Splunk, or Prometheus for tracking application performance and troubleshooting (2 years)

Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:

The base pay for this role will depend on where you work and the relevant experience and expertise you bring. The expected range of pay for this role by location is:

Primary Location | Pay Range:

San Jose, California | Salary: $227,639-333,500 per annum. 40 hours per week; M-F, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Additional compensation for this role may include an annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation, as applicable.

Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Subsidiary:
PayPal

Travel Percent:
0

PayPal does not charge candidates any fees for courses, applications, resume reviews, interviews, background checks, or onboarding. When making an application directly, we will never ask you to share passwords, one-time passcodes (OTP), or verification codes. Any such request is a red flag and likely part of a scam. All communication regarding your application will come from official PayPal email domains. If you suspect fraudulent activity, please report it immediately. To learn more about how to identify and avoid recruitment fraud please visit https://careers.pypl.com/contact-us.

For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

Our 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.