Staff AI Engineer: Agentic Commerce & Personalization

PayPal; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

PayPal in Singapore is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead complex technical projects, coordinate engineers, define tasks, and raise engineering standards while representing the company to external partners and stakeholders. You will shape architecture and improve systems end-to-end.

You will focus on building agentic commerce, knowledge, and personalization solutions, leveraging cloud platforms and AI tooling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in software engineering or related roles.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Proven experience leading engineers and delivering large-scale systems.

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 to identify optimal solutions.
• Notices patterns and condenses repetition into generalized solutions.
• Collaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor.
• Trusted to represent PayPal to external partners, customers, or industry groups.

Skills

Python

Java

LangGraph

RAG

Prompt engineering

Context engineering

GCP Vertex AI

Bigtable

Cloud SQL

Vector databases

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

PayPal in Singapore is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead complex technical projects, coordinate engineers, define tasks, and raise engineering standards while representing the company to external partners and stakeholders. You will shape architecture and improve systems end-to-end.

You will focus on building agentic commerce, knowledge, and personalization solutions, leveraging cloud platforms and AI tooling.